Quotes About Home

I'd understood how salt water ran through some veins and not in others, like a blood type that identified those who belonged here.

Of course not. I just want you to feel more at home. Not like a visitor." "But that's what I am," Larkin protested. Bitty stood, her knees cracking, and laughed. "You tell yourself that over and over again, sweetie, but it'll never drain the salt water running through your veins. The outgoing tide might suck all the water from the creeks and marshes here, but eventually the ocean pushes it all back where it belongs.

Home is a place that lives in one's heart, waiting with open arms to be rediscovered.

And sometimes home is where one finds it, in the heart of another person who will always believe you are worthy of love.

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First, we must rediscover our kitchens. Never has a culture spent more to remodel and techno-glitz its kitchens, but at the same time been more lost as to where the kitchen is and what it's for.

And you tempt me into your House of Love-- I, who have come from far Through wintry forest and homeless heath, Friend of the wind and star? Ah, I fear the warmth of the ingleside And the depths of your dear caress Will make me forget what I learned out there In the stubble and loneliness!

Charity thought of the Yukon, the dream of adventure that had carried her so far from her home, and the turn of fate that had led to the place she stood now, in the arms of the man she loved. And she smiled.

The house was light and moved when we did. With my arm above my head as I lay I might have been a ballerina bent over in a music box.

In fact, studies have demonstrated that the 'success rate' of missionary encounters that take place in the home of a friend or family member is five hundred times higher than encounters in an institutional setting or a public place.

I have only the simplest shades in my house. I think a window treatment is something you should give a window when it's sick.

That is why a house is not something that you passively 'have', it is something that you 'do', something that you 'work on'

The ground was as clear and clean as Sal's own yard.

It had no means of surviving but the thread that bound it to home.

I guess it's not the place I want to escape. It's my place in this place.

Odysseus was a great hero in the Trojan War. When he left Troy to sail home to Ithaca, he was lost at sea for ten years. He begged the brave and mighty Zeus for help, and kindly Zeus sent winds to take him home.

River Styx, the fearsome Underworld river. Its dark, swirling waters may seem frightening to some, but to me they are the waters of home. I looked up the river. Charon's River Taxi was headed my way.

I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.

It was as grim a social scene as I'd ever encountered, and I missed everything I'd left behind at home. I wondered what my nail polish collection was doing right now.

I have a little kitchen office at home, where I do all my kids' stuff.

Our academic home was simple in its appointments, —so simple that Joy-of-Life and I often merrily quoted to each other the comment of a calling freshman: "When I'm old, I mean to have a dear little house just like this one, all furnished with nothing but books.

But the bathroom reached its current sybaritic levels only in the 1990s. Often, it's no longer the smallest room in the house. The average size of the American bathroom tripled between 1994 and 2004, and it's not uncommon to sacrifice a bedroom to make an extralarge bathroom.

July." The strawberries in Ursula's garden at The Pines were the stuff of legend. "Thank you, no. But could you stay a bit longer?" "Until five. Tom is working at home today." Faith didn't offer any further explanation. After trying to write his sermon in the shadow of his file cabinets at the church yesterday, he had decided to give the parsonage study, neutral territory, a try today. "As I said, everything hinged on Father's

I want my family to resemble the family I came from.