Quotes About Home

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Let me tell you something: You can live in a broken home, you can play with a broken toy, but you cannot love with a broken heart.

From the moment we walk out the door until we come back home our sensibilities are so assaulted by the world that we have to soak up as much love as we can get, simply to arm ourselves.

There's no sight on earth more appealing than that of a woman making dinner for someone she loves.

I think people who come into my home feel comfortable and welcome and loved. And the biggest thing in my living room (the fireplace) is in and of itself an expression of love.

I hate leaving home. I love what I do, but I'd love to go home every night.

Home is wherever we are if there's love here too

Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy

I might be collecting wheely bins in 12 months time but at least they'll be wheely bins outside back gates that I know, in a part of the country that I love. There's no place like home!

You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.

There's something in a simple hug That always warms the heart, It welcomes us back home And makes it easier to part....

I've spent lots of time in London, I studied in London, I like London. It's just not my home.

You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don't quite fit in anywhere. And then you walk into a room one day, whether it's at university or an office or some kind of club, and you just go, 'Ah. There they are.' And suddenly you feel at home.

I remembered Agnes's words: that we who traveled far from home would always have our hearts in two places. I placed my hand on the candlewick bedspread. And, finally, I wept.

I realized pretty quickly I couldn't marry a man without a bookshelf.

Lo que sé es esto: nadie lo consigue todo. Y nosotras las inmigrantes lo sabemos mejor que nadie. Tienes siempre un pie en cada sitio. Nunca puedes ser feliz del todo porque cuando marchas te partes en dos y dondequiera que vayas una mitad está siempre llamando a la otra. Ese es el precio, Louisa. El precio a pagar por quienes somos. Tomó un sorbo de su vaso y

I know this - nobody gets everything. And we immigrants know this more than anyone. You always have one foot in two places. You can never be truly happy because, from the moment you leave, you are two selves, and wherever you are one half of you is always calling to the other.

felt an almost umbilical pull toward home, the comfort offered by a conventional family and a traditional Sunday lunch.

You could only truly reinvent yourself far from home. On trips to see her parents, she still feels a little stifled by all that communal history.

que aquellos que viajábamos lejos de casa siempre tendríamos el corazón en dos sitios.

No single man keeps color-coordinated scatter cushions on his bed." "Neil

And we immigrants know this more than anyone. You always have one foot in two places. You can never be truly happy because, from the moment you leave, you are two selves, and wherever you are one half of you is always calling to the other.

I felt grateful for my parents. I felt an almost umbilical pull towards home, the comfort offered by a traditional family and Sunday lunch on the table.

neither enjoyed conflict within the home, and each held for the other such a healthy respect that they rarely allowed themselves an openly cross exchange, and knew each other's responses well enough after the best part of thirty years to usually avoid it.