Quotes About Home

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

Of course, to be a mother and a housewife is a vocation of a very high kind. But I simply felt that it was not the whole of my vocation. I knew that I also wanted a career. A phrase that Irene Ward, MP for Tynemouth, and I often used was that 'while the home must always be the centre of one's life, it should not be the boundary of one's ambitions'.

while the home must always be the centre of one's life, it should not be the boundary of one's ambitions'.

Thy wife," promises Psalm 128, "shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house; thy children like olive plants round about thy table." (The image here is perhaps that of a cut stump "table" surrounded by green scions.)

There is no place more lonely Than a rich man's home.

I still think of myself as a broken place, a drifting isle with no home. —Quebrado

The whole house seemed to be permeated by the scent of the herb garden.

If he's a poet, why's he in jail?" demanded a suspicious voice. Madam Chairwoman shrugged velvet shoulders. "Perhaps he writes free verse," she suggested cunningly. A stir of approval answered her. Mice are all for people being free, so that they too can be freed form their eternal task of cheering prisoners--so that they can stay snug at home, nibbling the family cheese, instead of sleeping out in damp straw on a diet of stale bread.

Home is home, no? - whatever layabouts you live with, whatever tempers and timidities. I was glad to glimpse them, and glad to go to my own bed among them, with the right smell and the right hollows holding me . . .

Edith's mother used to say, 'An immaculate home is a sign of a misspent life.

Lucy's Rules for Living 1. Life is strange and messy and you are strange and messy. Strange and messy is beautiful. 2. We all stand on a precipice. Choose. 3. You'll always find your way home. 4. There are no rules. And if you think there are any, break them.

A family is like a good roof overhead; as long as it's there you're safe from all kinds of storms and bad weather.

Ginger is now called Jack, and utterly adored in a home of his very own. Blending

The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home -- will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because then he becomes one of the children.

The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home -- will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because the he becomes one of the children.

Adam," said Mrs. Hoops, as if it took a great deal of courage to bring out the words. "Mamma cannot live in the same house with dogs.

The survey of the time spent in the home by most housewives established that, on average, they worked 75 hours a week, with overtime on Saturdays and Sundays. This did not take into account that a number of women were also doing part or full-time work outside the home.

Happiness makes the heartless man, someone told me when I was a child. We arrived home happy and heartless.

If the child shows through its conversation that the educational work of the school is being undermined by the attitude taken in his home, he will be sent back to his parents, to teach them thus how to take advantage of their good opportunities.

For a man is not only a biological but a social product, and the social environment of individuals in the process of education, is the home. Scientific pedagogy will seek in vain to better the new generation if it does not succeed in influencing also the environment within which this new generation grows! I

Why do we keep believing that we can control nature,even as it banishes us repeatedly from our homes in search of new fertile ground?

I love where I'm from. I don't live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It's what's inside, it's not what's outside that determines the culture and the feeling.

When you travel so many weeks a year, it's always nice to have a home-cooked meal.