Quotes About Home

My environment reflects the life I've led, the places I've visited and the people I've loved.

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

Dogs are not allowed to choose where they live; my fate would be decided by people.

Then something incredible happened. The boy picked me up and carried me right into the house! I'd never even imagined that might be possible. Did it mean that I wouldn't be living in a wire cage with a concrete floor? That I could stay where the people stayed? I was going to like it here just fine.

For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

There head falls forward, fatigued at evening, And dreams of home...

We wander on the earth, or err from bed to bed in search of home, and fail, and weep for the lost ages Before Because became As If, or rigid Certainty The Chances Are. The base hear us, and the violent Who long to calm our guilt with murder, and already Have not been slow to turn our wish to their advantage.

Home is where the heart is, until we get a chance to bury it. Home is where the heart pulled the nails out of its feet, and fled.

The Governor's Mansion is a beautiful home, a beautiful building - we're privileged to have a chance to live there. It certainly doesn't feel as comfortable as our home.

In violent and chaotic times such as these, our only chance for survival lies in creating our own little islands of sanity and order, in making little havens of our homes.

I'm from Hope, Arkansas, you may have heard of it. All I'm asking is, give us one more chance.

It's the first day of spring. That means this weekend I'll take down my Christmas lights.

Congress may be going home for the holidays soon. How can you beat a Christmas gift like that?

Unless you are very rich and very eccentric, you will not enjoy the luxury of a computer in your own home.

A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.

I know that life is a doorway to eternity, and yet my heart so often gets lost in petty anxieties. It forgets the great way home that lies before it.

Anytime I was in Memphis with my dad and at the house, I was happy. That was, like, a given. It was what I lived for. And I still feel the same excitement and warmth.

My dad is my biggest source of inspiration. He's a lawyer, and when he'd get home, we always sat down and listened to music.

My dad and my uncles used to always be in the studio at my house.

I go off and make movies; I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.

Dad built houses and when they were sold, he moved on to a new town, so I know a lot about my native state.

It's nice when they notice the deep voice from across the house, and they know it's papa. They know it's Dad.

In my beach shack, we'll be alone. In my beach shack, I'll make you feel at home.