Quotes About Home

Aunt Crete gasped with joy. The thought of the ocean, was wonderful. she had dreamed of it many times,but never had seen it, because she was always the one who could just as well stay at home as not. ? - Grace Livingston Hill, Aunt Crete's Emancipation

produce an entire album, which became The Place I Love.

For the rest of her life, she lives in a low, dark house of white stone. It has a wide tiled roof and a hawthorn bush to ward off lightning. Outdoors, she wears a full green flannel skirt and a pointy hood. She is more prolific than the fields, which produce a crop of barley or rye only once every two years.

Invalids were habitually hated by their carers. It took a special government grant, instituted in 1850 in the Seine and Loiret départements, to persuade poor families to keep their ailing relatives at home instead of sending them to that bare waiting room of the graveyard, the municipal hospice. When there was just enough food for the living, the mouth of a dying person was an obscenity.

Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down/And they all led me straight back home to you.

Afraid? Batman's not afraid of anything. It's me. I'm afraid. I'm afraid that The Joker may be right about me. Sometimes…I question the rationality of my actions. And I'm afraid that when I walk through those asylum gates... when I walk into Arkham and the doors close behind me... it'll be just like coming home.

I had to go to France to appreciate Iowa.

He had grown up in a home without love, filled with petty cruelties and alcoholism and despair, a place where dreams of a better life were absurd and worthy of venomous critique from his own father.

He'd never been lectured on Darwinism in any brothel back home, but then what could he expect in a country run by godless socialists?

The campsite was like a pinprick of awareness, poised between fading memories and the unknown future—and if daybreak and the journey home would reclaim some of what the darkness now shrouded, that reprieve itself was only temporary.

I work for a few at home who are devoted. People who are up now. Either they have some sort of bladder problem or they're extremely drunk. This is my crowd, these are the people I hope to get.

It was, strangely, like coming home, as if this was the place Poe had meant to be all along.

It is the feeling of being given a place in the world. 11 No Longer the Same Place Evan came to lying flat on his chest, his mouth open against the floorboards.

They talk about it like it's all jukebox slow dances and sweaty lovemaking and princess-cut diamonds. But sometimes it's just your wife sitting frog style on the kitchen floor after a workout, looking for an omelet pan.

Clouds tear over their tops at impossible speed, but inside the wind plays through my heartstrings. Patagonia-it feels like home

Look for happiness under your own roof.

We will not forget that Liberty has here made her home; nor shall her chosen altar be neglected.

Il faut voyager loin en aimant sa maison

Vorrei avere nella mia casa: una donna ragionevole, un gatto che passi tra i libri, degli amici in ogni stagione senza i quali non posso vivere.

Là où on s'aime, il ne fait jamais nuit.

No había duda, ahí en su desnudez, en su abrazo, se hallaba mi casa.

The only piece of home Ofelia had been able to take with her were some of her books. She closed her fingers firmly around the one on her lap, caressing the cover. When she opened the book, the white pages were so bright against the shadows that filled the forest and the words they offered granted shelter and comfort. The letters were like footprints in the snow, a wide white landscape untouched by pain, unharmed by memories too dark to keep, too sweet to let go of.

WHAT WAS ZELDA doing in the seconds before her front door was kicked in? Before the wood securing the dead bolt disintegrated into daggers and left the chain lock dangling like a mugger-torn necklace? She thinks she was cooking.

hogar, país? Es posible que los seres humanos se den cuenta algún día de que todos estos valores son abstractos y que para vivir sólo necesitamos, en realidad, un lugar habitable".