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Quotes About Home

I had travelled the world and I had come to realise, in faint surprise, that I had seen no countryside that could compare in pastoral beauty with that of my own home. It takes a long time for an Australian to accept the fact that the wide, bustling, sophisticated world of the northern hemisphere cannot compare with his own land in certain ways;
~ Nevil Shute
Cyrus Shawn O'Leary got that letter on the Friday morning at his home in Ann Arbor near Detroit.
~ Nevil Shute
You do not understand. Over there, they want to help us. If they make a home for children, refugees from Europe, they feel that they are doing something worth while. And they are.
~ Nevil Shute
Our people think: I , Wangari, a Kenyan by birth - how can I be a vagrant in my own country as if I were a foreigner.
~ Ng?g? wa Thiong'o
in spite of all her misgivings, she glowed and thought to herself. 'This is my place. This is where I belong.
~ Ngaio Marsh
There is always home, sweet home. As an insurance policy or a pension plan, however, this strategy has one very obvious flaw. It represents a one-way, totally unhedged bet on one market: the property market. Unfortunately, as we shall see in the next chapter, a bet on bricks and mortar is very far from being as safe as houses.
~ Niall Ferguson
All told, in the United States, the sex industry grosses more than the domestic revenue of the tobacco and alcohol industries put together. All told, the American male spends more money annually per capita on the sex industry than on taking his wife to the movies and buying video games for his children. All told, the American male is clearly not getting what he wants at home.
~ Nic Kelman
Anni and Josef Albers's house was the whitest place imaginable.
~ Nicholas Fox Weber
A story about family, first loves, second chances, and the moments in life that leads you back home
~ Nicholas Sparks
That's my sweetheart in there. Wherever she is, that's where my home is.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Spending time with you just feels...right,somehow. Easy, like the way it's supposed to be. Like it is with my parents. They're just comfortable together, and I remember growing up thinking that one day I wanted to have that, too.
~ Nicholas Sparks
I'll be the light in the window.
~ Nicholas Sparks
That's my sweetheart in there. I'm not living her. This is my home now. Your mother is my home.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Noah Calhoun watched the fading sun sink lower from the wrap around porch of his plantation-style home.He liked to sit here in the evenings, especially after working hard all day.
~ Nicholas Sparks
You've gotta feel at home when you're on the mound.
~ Pat Connaughton
Whenever I'm in Glasgow I go and stand outside the front of the house I grew up in, which is in Mount Vernon.
~ John Barrowman
My mom lives on a mountain in the Catskills.
~ Jasmine Cephas Jones
Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.
~ Gale Norton
In Arizona, there's mountains behind my house.
~ Brian Urlacher
Being raised in Iowa, I know what a cornfield does for me, and I wanted to have that same kind of feeling for the Ramapo Mountains.
~ Jason Momoa
I am proud to be a daughter of the mountains.
~ Himani Shivpuri
It doesn't bother me to be called a 'hillbilly' because I lived in the hills. I grew up in the hills and the mountains are my home.
~ Paula Jean Swearengin
I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.
~ Maurice Sendak
I want to clear this once and for all. I was born in Hong Kong. I grew up in Japan and China. London is not home for me. I was there only for three years before I moved to India, but that's probably why I am connected with it. London is definitely not the place I consider my home. It's India that I consider home.
~ Katrina Kaif