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Quotes About Home

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
~ Maya Angelou
I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me. So I have a special place for every library, in my heart of hearts.
~ Maya Angelou
We must re-create an attractive and caring attitude in our homes and in our worlds. If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves. If we persist in self-disrespect and then ask our children to respect themselves, it is as if we break all their bones and then insist that they win Olympic gold medals for the hundred-yard dash. Outrageous.
~ Maya Angelou
First we became friendly, then we became sister friends. When she finally told me I was her daughter, I knew I had found home. Sitting
~ Maya Angelou
one can never leave home...one carries the shadows, the dreams, the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes...
~ Maya Angelou
Thomas Wolfe warned in the title of America's great novel that you can't go home again. I enjoyed the book but I never agreed with the title. I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe.
~ Maya Angelou
We must recreate an attractive and caring attitude in our homes and in our worlds. If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.
~ Maya Angelou
we had been each other's home and center for seventeen years. He could die if he wanted to and go off to wherever dead folks go, but I, I would be left without a home.
~ Maya Angelou
they had not come home, but had left one familiar place of painful memory for another strange place with none. The
~ Maya Angelou
When you cross my doorstep, you have already been raised. With what you have learned from your Grandmother Henderson in Arkansas and what you have learned from me, you know the difference between right and wrong. Do right. Don't let anybody raise you from the way you have been raised. Know you will always have to make adaptations, in love relationships, in friends, in society, in work, but don't let anybody change your mind. And then remember this: You can always come home.
~ Maya Angelou
I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe.
~ Maya Angelou
I couldn't decide on any move, so I recited a few Bible verses, and went home.
~ Maya Angelou
we drove up to the three-shaded house
~ Maya Angelou
Every person needs a place that is furnished with hope.
~ Maya Angelou
Bold words, befitting the mistress of the Montgomery clan," Graeme said in approval. "Come, wife. Let's go home. I have a need to show my lass just how much her laird loves her.
~ Maya Banks
You'll always be home with me. And home for me is wherever you are. No matter where life takes us, as long as we're together, it's all I'll ever ask for.
~ Maya Banks
Never forget that family is the most important thing. No matter how far your life takes you away, your family is always here. And if you're nothing else in this world, you're a Kelly, and that makes you loved.
~ Maya Banks
The homely and erotic patters of marriage are not easily discarded.
~ McEwan Ian
Home. Wow. I'm already calling it home. Well, isn't that what any place is? Any place that you share with someone you love, I mean?
~ Meg Cabot
People everywhere pray for a job where they can "work from home," so I guess, going with the gratitude theme, I should be grateful for this opportunity. I wonder how, though, when people get one of these jobs, they keep themselves from spending the entire day going on YouTube and looking at videos about baby deer that have been adopted by golden retrievers. Because that's all I've accomplished today so far.
~ Meg Cabot
What do you mean, "Not to worry, she's home safe with Skiboy"? What the hell is a Skiboy?
~ Meg Cabot
Get Mom to stop hanging bras on bedroom doorknob
~ Meg Cabot
Mia Thermopolis, 1005 Thompson Street, #4A
~ Meg Cabot
Chez Paolo," Grandmère said. Chez Paolo means "Paul's house.
~ Meg Cabot