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Quotes About Home

But never had she felt so clearly as in this hour that it was on her father and mother all the life of this home had rested. What ever hidden troubles they might have had to struggle with, warmth and help, peace and safety had flowed out from them to all that lived about them.
~ Sigrid Undset
Why I left, I don't know. I have never found a place of more beautiful night sounds, have never found a place where I so completely belonged despite being different.
~ Silas House
They all knew that she was serious and they all knew what she wasn't saying—that their land was the most important thing they had besides one another.
~ Silas House
No," Jude agreed softly, "but we can empathize. Anyone who's been in a relationship where one partner blames the other for their own inadequacies knows the kind of pain involved. Strange how it keeps happening. There are enough unpleasant people out there in the world to cut you down to size. What everyone needs at home is someone to support and bolster them.
~ Simon Brett
Time wounds all wholes. To exist in Time is to suffer through an endless exile, a successive severing from those precious few moments of feeling at home in the world.
~ Simon Reynolds
Her home is her earthly lot, the expression of her social worth, and her intimate truth. Because she does nothing, she avidly seeks herself in what she has.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
The surprising objects that you see when you leave your own Grand Republic and go traveling—pink snakes and polar bears—are nothing beside what you find when you stay at home and have a new girl and meet her friends, whose resentment of you is only less than your amazement that there are such people and that she likes them.
~ Sinclair Lewis
If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Family's the most important thing.
~ Sophie Kinsella
La vita reale non è veleggiare per Knightsbridge in taxi o scegliere valigie da mille sterline. No, questa è la vita reale. A casa in un minuscolo appartamento che puzza ancora di curry, una pila di lettere minacciose della banca che ti aspettano, e tu che non hai la minima idea di che fare al riguardo.
~ Sophie Kinsella
I arrive home at eleven o'clock, exhausted and brain-dead, having got through only about half of Ketterman's
~ Sophie Kinsella
you're interested, mum could start cooking lessons today. nat
~ Sophie Kinsella
Honeysuckle and jasmine!" I exclaim in sudden recognition. I have the Jo Malone bath oil at home.
~ Sophie Kinsella
You haven't been home before eleven this week!" This is what I mean by an insatiable interest. She probably has all my details logged somewhere in a little book.
~ Sophie Kinsella
We spend all weekend cooking.
~ Sophie Kinsella
I've never lived outside of Canada, so I've been really cold my entire life. Most of my memories are coloured by the fact that I was really cold, just... all the time!
~ Grimes
I brewed potions in a vain search for life everlasting, I read books, I sang songs of history, And today I've come home to Cold Mountain To pillow my head on the stream and wash my ears.
~ Hanshan
At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house.
~ Henry David Thoreau
There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
~ Homer
I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!
~ Ice Cube
No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.
~ J. G. Holland
A man who in the struggles of life has no home to retire to, in fact or in memory, is without life's best rewards and life's best defences.
~ J. G. Holland
My life is really so much based in England.
~ Jamie Oliver
I do mostly British projects, and for family reasons and life reasons Britain's my home, where I have a lovely garden.
~ Janet McTeer