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Quotes About Home

The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you've got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see? You've got to stop. You haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home.
~ Terry Pratchett
The world is a globe — the farther you sail, the closer to home you are.
~ Terry Pratchett
Strength enough to build a home, Time enough to hold a child, Love enough to break a heart
~ Terry Pratchett
Well, I suppose there's no place like home," she said. "No," said Granny Weatherwax, still looking thoughtful. "No. There's a billion places like home. But only one of 'em's where you live.
~ Terry Pratchett
He wanted to go home. He wanted it so much that he trembled at the thought. But if the price of that was selling good men to the night, if the price was filling those graves, if the price was not fighting with every trick he knew…then it was too high.
~ Terry Pratchett
Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your own home.
~ Terry Pratchett
Well, I suppose there's no place like home,' she said. 'No,' said Granny Weatherwax, still looking thoughtful. 'No, there's a billion places like home. But only one of 'em's where you live.
~ Terry Pratchett
It was eight in the morning, a time when drinkers are trying either to forget who they are or remember where they live.
~ Terry Pratchett
No. There's a billion places like home. But only one of 'em's where you live.
~ Terry Pratchett
memory is the only way home.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
I could walk forever with beauty. Our steps are not measured in miles but in the amount of time we are pulled forward by awe. This is another gift from our national parks, to be led by the vistas, to forget what nags us at home and remember what sustains us, the horizon.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
But that's what our ancestors did, Millie. This is where we all come from. Some part of you, some ancient memory deep in your brain, recognizes this continent as home.
~ Tess Gerritsen
Some part of you, some ancient memory deep in your brain, recognizes this continent as home.
~ Tess Gerritsen
Angela Rizzoli's worst fear was that someone, someday, would leave her house hungry.
~ Tess Gerritsen
Mindful breathing is the vehicle that you use to go back to your true home.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
Home is the place where loneliness disappears. When we're home, we feel warm, comfortable, safe, fulfilled.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
When we return to our breathing, we return to the present moment, our true home. There's no need for us to struggle to arrive somewhere else. We know our final destination is the cemetery. Why are we in a hurry to get there? Why not step in the direction of life, which is in the present moment?
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
A culture of change can never be created by behavioral strategy alone. Peace—whether at home, work, or between peoples—is invited only when an intelligent outward strategy is married to a peaceful inward one.
~ The Arbinger Institute
They are some of the most powerful narratives human beings have produced, about what we most want (beauty, home, bread) and fear (darkness, abandonment, being devoured), which is why they keep being retold and reconfigured.
~ Theodora Goss
DIANA: Mary's right. Give me London any day. It may smell of sewage, but it's our sewage.
~ Theodora Goss
A lovely home atmosphere is one of the flowers of the world, than which there is nothing more tender, nothing more delicate, nothing more calculated to make strong and just the natures cradled and nourished within it.
~ Theodore Dreiser
A man, to hold his position, must have a dignified manner, a clean record, a respectable home anchorage.
~ Theodore Dreiser
from The Auction I left my home with unencumbered will And all the rubbish of confusion sold.
~ Theodore Roethke
Your true home is in the here and the now.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh