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Quotes About Home

My heart is your home, wherever in the world you are – you will always have a place to stay.
~ K.A. Hill
What I love most about my home is who I share it with.
~ Tad Carpenter
Know that I love you immensely, and you hurry home.
~ Bea Weaver
A criminal always returns home.
~ Ljupka Cvetanova
She who has the excellence of home virtues, and can expend within the means of her husband, is a help in the domestic state
~ Thiruvalluvar, Thirukkural
oh love, doesn't the fact that the world is so big, laid out like ripe fruitmake you want to stay?
~ Andrew McMillan
Then up he got with a light heart, free from all his troubles, and walked on till he reached his mother's house, and told her how very easy the road to good luck was.
~ Jacob Grimm
I will never contest election in Nigeria. Whenever my husband retires, I will go back home with him.
~ Patience Jonathan
The test of a man is in his immediate acts, and not in ultra-sentiments; and if those acts are consistently informed with selfishness and bitterness, if those at home hear his steps with dread, and feel a joyful relief on his departure, how empty are his expressions of sympathy for the suffering or down trodden how futile his membership of a philanthropic society.
~ Napoleon Hill
Returning to the home office means loss of perks, having to revert to his base salary
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Someone who has seen a house collapse knows only too clearly what frail things little vases of flowers and pictures and white walls are. He knows only too well what a house is made of.
~ Natalia Ginzburg
It is a country where they know how to build houses. A man's wish to be snug in his own little house, which is just for him and his family, and to have a garden which he cultivates himself, is considered quite reasonable, and so the cities are made up of just such little houses.
~ Natalia Ginzburg
So she was unprepared for the homely little house beside the pond, unprepared for the gentle eddies of dust, the silver cobwebs, the mouse who lived—and welcome to him!—in a table drawer.
~ Natalie Babbitt
Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is a kind of natural magic that enables these favored ones to bring out the hidden capabilities of things around them; and particularly to give a look of comfort and habitableness to any place which, for however brief a period, may happen to be their home.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
On the threshold she paused ... for perchance the idea of entering, all alone, and all so changed, the home of so intense a former life was more dreary and desolate than even she could bear.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is as clear to me as sunshine–were there any in the sky–that the greatest possible stumbling-blocks in the path of human happiness and improvement, are these heaps of bricks, and stones, consolidated with mortar, or hewn timber, fastened together with spike-nails, which men painfully contrive for their own torment, and call them house and home! The soul needs air; a wide sweep and frequent change of it.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
I went home and tried to sleep, but couldn't, so I stared up at the moon, watching how it's trailing edge faded into darkness, so close to being full, but not quite there. A pregnant moon, Grandma called it. Full almost to bursting, and ready to give birth to something unthinkable.
~ Neal Shusterman
Are you heading out or heading home?" asked the woman sitting beside him in 15A. There was no 15B—the concept of the B seat, where one had to sit between two other passengers, had been eliminated along with other unpleasant things, like disease and government.
~ Neal Shusterman
You seemed to be awfully friendly with one of the party boys. Should I invite more of them for you next time?" "No, no, it's nothing like that," said Rowan, blushing in spite of himself. "He's just a friend from home.
~ Neal Shusterman
Greyson was inoculated with a dose of his new life even before arriving home. The publicar he took read him the riot act even before it left the Nimbus Academy.
~ Neal Shusterman
The meal was awkward—mostly silence punctuated by the occasional comment by the scythe. "You have a lovely home." "What flavorful lemonade!" "This may be the best baked ziti in all of MidMerica!" Even though everything he said was complimentary, his voice registered like a seismic shock down everyone's spine.
~ Neal Shusterman
I am this fiery snail crawling home.
~ Charles Bukowski
There still might be a place for us somewhere.
~ Charles Bukowski