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Quotes About Home

I married a woman who loves to camp, and I am what you would call "indoorsy"... My wife always brings up, "Camping's a tradition in my family." Hey, it was a tradition in everyone's family 'til we came up with the house.
~ Jim Gaffigan
But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its attractions, and becomes a very centre of civilization to you: "Home is home, be it never so homely."
~ Henry David Thoreau
It's really the cat's house — we just pay the mortgage.
~ Author Unknown
I tell you... that girl is a young woman of remarkable strength of character... a girl of firmness and the courage of her convictions... she carried a box of candy home the other day without opening it.
~ America, 1889
Christmas is a time when you get homesick — even when you're home.
~ Carol Nelson, unverified
Shut the door. Not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the cozyness.
~ Mark Twain
Homemade meals — especially mommy meals — are life's most pleasant fuel.
~ Terri Guillemets
...but yet they grumbled. Such is human-nature. The man who drinks beer at home always criticizes the champagne, and finds fault with the Burgundy when he is invited out to dinner.
~ Mark Twain, 1868
Happy children! thus to flee Early to their home above! Happy those below, to be Upward drawn by chords of love!
~ Anonymous, 1800s
Hug your kids at home, but belt them in the car.
~ Author Unknown
Life is not a fairy tale. If you lose your shoe at midnight, chance are you will be walking home barefoot.
~ Author Unknown
A family is a resting-place from worldly cares...
~ Rev. J. Long, 1881
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have past at home in the bosom of my family.
~ Thomas Jefferson, 1790
And thank you for a house full of people I love. Amen.
~ Terri Guillemets
The words that the father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world; but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end and by posterity.
~ Jean Paul, 1806
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives. Those who are lucky enough to find it ease like water over a stone, onto its fluid contours, and are home.
~ Josephine Hart, Damage, 1991
Grandma serves kisses, counsel, and cookies daily.
~ Author Unknown
The ornaments of your house will be the guests who frequent it.
~ Author Unknown
But it was home. And though home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit answered to, in strongest conjuration.
~ Charles Dickens
Home is where the wi-fi connects automatically.
~ Internet meme
Physically, our home is small and the rest of the world is large — but in our hearts, it's the other way around.
~ Terri Guillemets
It takes hands to build a house, but only hearts can build a home.
~ Author Unknown
Where Thou art – that – is Home... Where Thou art not – is Wo...
~ Emily Dickinson
...You 'll find, where'er you roam, That marble floors and gilded walls Can never make a home. But every house where Love abides, And Friendship is a guest, Is surely home, and home-sweet-home: For there the heart can rest.
~ Henry Van Dyke, "A Home Song"