Quotes About Home

There are moments when history and memory seem like a mist, as if what really happened matters less than what should have happened. The mist lifts and suddenly there we are, my good parents and their good children, their grateful children who phone for no reason but to talk, say their good-nights with a kiss, and look forward to home on the holidays. I see how, in a family like mine, love doesn't have to be earned and it can't be lost.

It's true that, as my brother grew larger, he also grew dangerous, same as my sister. But they're still ours and we want them back. They're needed here at home.

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By state law, any unattended death—which is to say a person who dies outside of a hospital or nursing home—has to be investigated

The time was already creeping up on three o'clock. Faith had been awake since three this morning. All she could think about right now was walking through her front door, taking off her bra and reading escalator fatality stories until it was dark enough to go to bed.

Liktenis parasti st?v tepat, aiz m?jas st?ra. Izlikdamies par kabatzagli, ieleni vai loterijas bi?ešu p?rdev?ju: t?s ir vi?a tr?s visbiež?k lietot?s inkarn?cijas. Bet vienu gan tas nedara - nedodas m?jas viz?t?s. Ir pašam j?dodas pie vi?a.

Home', it had struck her on the torturous drive back to London, wasn't Egerton Gardens, wasn't even Fox Corner. Home was an idea, and like Arcadia it was lost in the past.

Not his real home, his real home, the one he never named any more, was the dark and sooty chamber in his heart that contained his sister and his brother and, because it was an accommodating kind of space, the entire filthy history of the industrial revolution.

My hunch is that probably men are doing more both outside the home and inside the home

A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode. [Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.]

I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel.

I have knocked on the door of this man's soul and found someone home.

A man and his dog goes so well with home and castle.

It is unethical for any man to tax another man's home to fund his social agenda. Friends don't do that, your enemies will.

I don't doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I'm convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house behind him.

I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.

The difference between a house and a home is like the difference between a man and a woman-- it might be embarrassing to explain, but it would be very unusual to get them confused.

Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly no place like home.

What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.

The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.

And what would happen to my illusion that I am a force for order in the home if I wasn't married to the only man north of the Tiber who is even untidier than I am?

The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.

Im Jamaican, man. Im Jamaican first. You gotta understand thats where Im from. Thats home. That you can never take away from me. Im a Jamaican-born Canadian sprinter.

A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.