Quotes About Home

Seek home for rest, for home is best.

I'm really private, and also, when I'm home, I'm home. I don't like people in on my business. I believe that you can be overexposed.

My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.

I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business, and I still have stuff to do at their house.

The house you built can cave you in if you didn't do it right.

Racing a thoroughbred grand prix car in front of a home crowd will be a surreal and mighty experience.

You might be a redneck if there are four or more cars up on blocks in the front yard.

I don't live on a hill. I live down under a hill, in the bottom and I've got a lot of cars, yeah.

Be it a house, be it a car or be it a little motorbike, there is always a place for the family!

With unfailing kindness, your life always presents what you need to learn. Whether you stay home or work in an office or what ever, the next teacher is going to pop right up. —CHARLOTTE JOKO BECK

Quizá su batalla para establecerse en Old House había terminado, o quizá se equivocaba al pensar que había encontrado su lugar o que podría encontrarlo alguna vez.

It was as though she had some alter ego who told her she did not belong here. But she had never known anywhere else, and where else could there be?

Charlotte misses her books. Her familiar walls, lined with language.

When we are married - and we will be married, I know we will, I see the long years of our marriage ahead like a great spacious welcoming firelit room - when we are married we shall have a house in London because I want to show you off. I want to wave you around in pride. We'll have that - but we'll also have Porlock, or somewhere like Porlock because we're going to want to be alone, and work, and shut the door on people...

If a man of real sensitivity and correct reasoning feels concerned about the evil and injustice of the world, he naturally seeks to correct it first where it manifests itself closest to home and that, he will find, is in his own being. This task will take him his whole lifetime.

You ask about the effects of my work on others. If I may wax ironical, that is a masculine questions. 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.

I don't need new boots I got bluchers back down home. Eff the effing bluchers I'll buy you new adjectival effing elastic sided boots.

Y el mundo se convirtió en un país extranjero donde ya no había necesidad de huir ni de volver a casa.

Sólo descansar, cerrar los ojos y no escuchar; no hacer otra cosa que respirar. Deseaba que hubiera llegado ya la hora de dormir y no seguir fuera donde había luz sino estar a oscuras, en casa, en su cuarto. Pero le sobraba soledad; y con el tiempo creía haber experimentado todas las artes posibles de la locura hasta sentir que le estallaba la cabeza.

Y al fin: feliz aquel que tiene sus lugares de duración; ya no será, aunque se haya trasladado para siempre a un país extraño, sin perspectivas de volver a su mundo, nadie a quien han expulsado de su patria.

Maybe it's a kind of freedom too. To stay home.

installed central air conditioning, bought big refrigerator/

The wildwood brings on mild nostalgia, not for home or place, but for lost innocence—the paradise lost that, as Proust said, is the only paradise.

Well now," said Sam, "you have to remember that in the States, a house is not a home without a gun. So I guess we'd shoot him. That usually works.