Quotes About Home

Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.

Middle age: when you're sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

Middle age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will get you home earlier.

A house is a machine for living.

Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner of a tablecloth left awry, in the knife beside the empty oyster shell.

And this is good old Boston, The home of the bean and the cod, Where the Lowells talk to the Cabots, And the Cabots talk only to God.

Old houses mended

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.

Our charity begins at home, And mostly ends where it begins.

As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's own appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Yes, I have doubted. I have wandered off the path, but I always return. It is intuitive, an intrinsic, built-in sense of direction. I seem always to find my way home.

Be England what she will, With all her faults, she is my country still.

You can't appreciate home until you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.

Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.

The house appointed for all living.

Have a place for everything and keep the things somewheres else. That is not advice, it is merely custom.

Being happy is something you have to learn. I often surprise myself by saying, "Wow, this is it. I guess I'm happy. I've got a home that I love. A career that I love. I'm even feeling more and more at peace with myself." If there's something else to happiness, let me know. I'm ambitious for that, too.

In my father's house are many mansions.

Charity begins at home, and usually stays there.

I never realized that there was history, close at hand, beside my very own home. I did not realize that the old grave that stood among the brambles at the foot of our farm was history.

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on.

I think marriage and family keeps being written about because that's where we keep our reputations with ourselves - I mean, we can't quite slip the truths we reveal about ourselves at home.

The biscuit tin shouldn't be handy - move it about a bit. Try to keep it out of the way.