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Quotes About Home

There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters.
~ Wallace Stegner
Where do I belong in this country? Where is home?
~ Wallace Stegner
Home was a curious thing, like happiness. You never knew you had had it until it was gone.
~ Wallace Stegner
I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from.
~ Wallace Stegner
Home is a notion that only the nations the of homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend. What else would one plant in a wilderness or on a frontier? What loss would hurt more?
~ Wallace Stegner
Scuse me—gotta hurry home—left the chillun on the stove.
~ Walt Kelly
For hearts that are kindly, with virtue and peace, and not seeking blindly a hoard to increase; for those who are grieving o'er life's sordid plan; for souls still believing in heaven and man; for homes that are lowly with love at the board; for things that are holy, I thank thee, O Lord!
~ Walt Mason
Alexander Ramsay, known to his friends back home in New York City as Alec
~ Walter Farley
Hansen had built a little world where he could follow his deadly pursuits away from the glare of home life. It was an old saw, as far as cops were concerned. People commit crimes in their own area, within their own comfort zone. Hansen was no exception. While
~ Walter Gilmour
I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant.
~ Walter Isaacson
They said to hide," Sarah says. "They'll pick up the computer hearts when things cool down in this part of the world." "No way for us to get home?" "None where we won't get assassinated the second we show up in the Free Zone. No one knows who to trust." "Whom," says Cowboy.
~ Walter Jon Williams
We're tenting tonight on the old campground,Give us a song to cheerOur weary hearts, a song of homeAnd friends we love so dear.
~ Walter Kittredge
Those who were cowards never started, and those who were weak were lost on the way, but the brave find a home in every land.
~ Walter Knott
What is it, then, that doesn't offend your eyes in public but upsets them at home – other than your opinion, which in the one place is easygoing and tolerant, but at home is critical and always complaining?
~ Ward Farnsworth
Living in homes without dads is more correlated with suicide among teenagers than any other factor.16
~ Warren Farrell
Injustice allowed at home is not likely to be corrected abroad.
~ WASHINGTON ALLSTON
Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
~ Washington Irving
It was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his children feel that home was the happiest place in the world; and I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.
~ Washington Irving
But a wide sea voyage severs us at once. It makes us conscious of being cast loose from the secure anchorage of settled life, and sent adrift upon a doubtful world. It interposes a gulf, not merely imaginary, but real, between us and our homes--a gulf, subject to tempest, and fear, and uncertainty, rendering distance palpable, and return precarious.
~ Washington Irving
Relative calm is expected in South Central Los Angeles for the next several weeks, as looters stay home and try to program their new VCRs.
~ Weekend Update
And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.
~ Wendell Berry
My brother was adopted. Somebody left him on the back doorstep when he was a baby. We found him when he was 16. We didn't use that door.
~ Wendy Liebman
Most kids might not think that riding the bus to school is all that awesomesauce, but that's only until your mom makes you go with her every morning and then lectures you about not using your magical powers the whole way to school and then picks you up and lectures you the whole way home.
~ Wendy Mass
Dwelling. Miles repeated the word to himself. It was a strange word.
~ Wendy Mass