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Quotes About Home

Criminal Minds, Miasma: "My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call."
~ Pat Conroy
Quarantini — just a regular martini, but you drink it alone at home
~ Internet meme, March 2020
We used to think the apocalypse would be anarchy and zombies. Turns out it's home offices and no toilet paper.
~ Internet meme, March 2020
Ah! there is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.
~ Jane Austen, 1815
The sweetest words in the English language are: — "Welcome. Make yourself at home."
~ Author unknown, c. 1949
Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.
~ Tommy Lasorda, unverified
Although I was born in Idaho and now live in New York, I definitely identify with the European aesthetic. Paris is my mecca; it's where I discovered my flair for fashion. But I pay rent and work in New York, so that is my home – I love the culture clash of the city.
~ Dree Hemingway
Good design for the home should be universal. A house should be like old shoes, comfortable, like a good friend… The Japanese aesthetic is important to me. Very organic. They have a sense of the weight of the thing: very balanced.
~ Elsa Peretti
My mind is changing all the time. I can't live in a space that has a fixed aesthetic. I just need a blank slate when I come home.
~ Petra Collins
????? ????? ????? ????? ????? Moonlight spreads before my bed. I wonder if it's hoarfrost on the ground. I raise my head to watch the moon And lowering it, I think of home. "REFLECTION IN A QUIET
~ Ha Jin
Well I'll be damned, thought Barbarotti. He's telling me . . . he's actually telling me to go home, lie on my bed and think. In paid work time. For a whole day. 'Not a bad idea,' Barbarotti said, getting quickly to his feet. 'Certainly worth a try. Er . . . I'll be back tomorrow, then?
~ HÃ¥kan Nesser
I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife.
~ Haile Gebrselassie
Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me.
~ Hakeem Olajuwon
I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.
~ Hakeem Olajuwon
All gods have their houses but all houses fall eventually and when they do the gods are left with only history as their home, living in the dreams of archaeologists, in the margins of a culture's memory, in the Vellum.
~ Hal Duncan
When a man has a flower in his life he builds a house.
~ Halldor Laxness
Jeg tar av meg frakken, hatten og skjerfet og gir meg i kast med å tømme askebegre og plukke opp klær. Tre kvarter senere ser leiligheten ut som om den kunne ha blitt fotografert til Håndbok i husstell for leiemordere. Jeg har nettopp sunket ned i en lenestol, den som vender mot kjøkkenet og inngangsdøra, da Gunholder stiger inn. Jeg skynder meg å trekke inn magen.
~ Hallgrimur Helgason
Little Two Eyes went home
~ Hamilton Wright Mabie
that the gentleman who owned it was vastly civil and pleasing. Soon after their return home, she told her mother that she had no longer any dislike to
~ Hamilton Wright Mabie
Some misguided Israelis believe that if they make life unbearable for us, we'll leave. No Palestinian is ready to go into exile or commit collective suicide. We are here to stay.
~ Hanan Ashrawi
Roger Maris lost his hair the season he hit sixty-one, I still have all my hair, but when it's over, I'm going home to Mobile and fish for a long time.
~ Hank Aaron
Men always want to be terribly influential, but I see that as somewhat external. Do I imagine myself being influential? No. I want to understand. And if others understand--in the same sense that I have understood--that gives me a sense of satisfaction, like feeling at home.
~ Hannah Arendt
Empire abroad entails tyranny at home
~ Hannah Arendt
Happy domestic life is like a beautiful summer's evening; the heart is filled with peace; and everything around derives a peculiar glory.
~ Hans Christian Andersen