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Quotes About Home

My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
~ Buffalo Bill
My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
~ Buffalo Bill
The first presentation of my show was given in May 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.
~ Buffalo Bill
With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.
~ Buffalo Bill
flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home.
~ Herman Melville
I want to share all of my New York with you, Melissa. My house, my friends, my life. It's not just about where you live, what you have. It's about who you are with. I know you get that, and I can't tell what it means to me.
~ Hester Browne
For one's native place is the shell of one's soul, and one's church is the kernel of that nut.
~ Hilaire Belloc
Going home does not come naturally to me. If my father's medium was silence, mine had tended to be escape. But there's no future in escape because the world is round. So the faster you run away, the faster you end up, right back where you started, face to face with whatever you were running from in the first place. Your worst fears, they're always the most patient. They'll wait up for you. That's what makes them the worst.
~ Holly Hughes
And for yourself, may the gods grant you your heart's desire, a husband and a home, and the blessing of a harmonious life. For nothing is greater or finer than this, when a man and woman live together with one hear and mind, bringing joy to their friends and grief to their foes.
~ Homer
My mother Thetis tells me that there are two ways in which I may meet my end. If I stay here and fight, I will not return alive but my name will live forever: whereas if I go home my name will die, but it will be long ere death shall take me.
~ Homer
But they could neither of them persuade me, for there is nothing dearer to a man than his own country and his parents, and however splendid a home he may have in a foreign country, if it be far from father or mother, he does not care about it.
~ Homer
Goddess, ...do not be angry with me about this. I am quite aware that my wife Penelope is nothing like so tall or so beautiful as yourself. She is only a woman, whereas you are an immortal. Nevertheless, I want to get home, and can think of nothing else.
~ Homer
No finer, greater gift in the world than that: When man and woman possess their home, two minds, two hearts that work as one. Despair to their enemies, a joy to all their friends. Their own best claim to glory.
~ Homer
No finer, greater gift in the world than that...when man and woman possess their home, two minds, two hearts that work as one.
~ Homer
A double chance of destiny impends: If here remaining, round the walls of Troy I wage the war, I ne'er shall see my home, But then undying glory shall be mine: If I return, and see my native land, 490 My glory all is gone; but length of life Shall then be mine, and death be long deferr'd.
~ Homer
I am at home, for I am he. I bore adversities, but in the twentieth year, I am ashore in my own land.
~ Homer
for there is nothing better in this world than that man and wife should be of one mind in a house. It discomfits their enemies, makes the hearts of their friends glad, and they themselves know more about it than any one.
~ Homer
All right then. Here's my story. Even though it plunges me into deeper grief than I feel now. But that's the way of the world, when one has been so far from home, so long away as I, roving over many cities of men, enduring many hardships.
~ Homer
would to god I'd stayed right here in my own house with a third of all that wealth and they were still alive, all who died on the wide plain of Troy those years ago, far from the stallion-land of Argos.
~ Homer
Tenderness and ferocity are essential for a woman journeying far from home.
~ Hong Ying
The [commercial] strip is marketed with the come-on of comfort (the Comfort Inn) and with the promise of a home on the road, a home where nobody knows your name and they're glad to see you as long as you can pay. The strip lives in the contradiction of the name Home Depot—domesticity on a gargantuan scale. Home—a person's native place, at ease, deep; to the heart, says the dictionary, and Depot, a storehouse or a 'warehouse.' (Warehouse of the Heart?)
~ Howard Mansfield
What I am wondering, said the Doctor, is where we are going to get another boat to go home in...Oh well, perhaps we'll find one lying about on the beach that nobody is using.
~ Hugh Lofting
Earth: The Place for Life
~ Hugh Ross
That evening at nine o'clock, Lieutenant José Castillo of the assault guards was leaving home, in the Calle Augusto Figueroa, in the centre of Madrid, to begin his duty.
~ Hugh Thomas