Quotes About Home

That man is perfect in faith who can come to God in the utter dearth of his feelings and his desires, without a glow or an aspiration, with the weight of low thoughts, failures, neglects, and wandering forgetfulness, and say to him, 'Thou art my refuge, because thou art my home.

All that the children want is their Father.

You know nothing about whereness. The only way to come to know where you are is to begin to make yourself at home.

Take my advice, my dear Mr Walton, and don't make too much of your poor, or they'll soon be too much for you to manage.—Come, Pet: it's time to go home to lunch.—And for the surplice, take your own way and wear it. I shan't say anything more about it.

The things of thy world so crowd our hearts, that there is no room in them for the things of thy heart, which would raise ours above all fear, and make us merry children in our Father's house!

I take some pride in the fact that while thrones were toppling and governments melting away overnight, I was heading for home with a set of crown jewels. There's a moral there, I think, if I could only work out what it was.

I took Elspeth home first. I had written to my father while we were on honeymoon, and had had a letter back saying: "Who is the unfortunate chit, for God's sake? Does she know what she has got?" So all was well enough in its way on that front.

So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern...Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.

The Victorian happy ending– a vision of a huge loving family of three or four generations, all crammed together in the same house and constantly multiplying, like a bed of oysters.

All he wanted was to get home quickly, and then sit down and be quiet.

Almost any situation is bearable if you have a home to go back to and a family who will stand by you. With

The Fifth Cure — Make of Thy Dwelling a Profitable Investment

ASÍ QUE VIENEN MUCHAS BENDICIONES AL HOMBRE QUE ES DUEÑO DE SU PROPIA CASA. Y REDUCIRÁ EN GRAN MANERA SUS GASTOS DE VIDA, CAUSANDO QUE TENGA DISPONIBLE MÁS DE SUS GANANCIAS PARA LOS PLACERES Y LA GRATIFICACIÓN DE SUS DESEOS. ESTE, ENTONCES ES EL QUINTO REMEDIO PARA UNA BOLSA ESCASA. SÉ DUEÑO DE TU PROPIA CASA».

My new home was much to my liking.

Lilly, as always, put all in perspective, by saying who cares about stupid bumper, we're going to get a new car soon anyway, when rich, right? Upon arriving home, put bumper in garage. In garage, found dead large mouse or small squirrel crawling with maggots. Used shovel to transfer majority of squirrel/mouse to Hefty bag. Smudge or stain of squirrel/mouse remains on garage floor, like oil stain w/embedded fur tufts

Ningún lugar es aburrido si me dan una mesa, buen café y unos libros. Eso es una patria.

I pray Heaven to bestow the best blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

It seems we only sleep well in our own bed.

His household was presided over by his sister, a colourless woman, prone to tears, which perhaps accounted for the fact of his lordship's being so seldom to be found at home.

Bordoni and his wife fled to Venezuela, where he used some of the stolen money to buy a $3 million home and citizenship.103

Why don't you come with me? Why? Where are you going? Home. I've had enough. I hate England. Hate England? It was too much to grasp, with a head full of searing headache.

Gertrude Chandler Warner

Forgetting Henry's headlamp, the Boxcar

Gertrude Chandler Warner