Quotes About Homes

The way to shut us up - to denigrate and destroy the truth we hear and see -is to render us unworthy and unsuccessful and without homes or roots.

We take those things we need from the Confederates' abandoned homes: salt, sugar, even this journal, near full with someone else's words, overlapped now, crosshatched beneath mine. On every page, his story intersecting with my own.

Eventually, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.

Christianity, in its fundamental state, brought not only the Heavenly Host into the homes of its adherents but a counterbalancing army of The Fallen. The devil was part of a package deal.

The adult children who often choose the homes prioritise safety. For the people who have to live there, other things might be more important: autonomy, for instance, or sociability, or fun.

Hospitals are often at the centre of things ('choirs and MPs visit them'), but 'homes are on the margins', so there is often a sense of being 'shut away out of sight; of loneliness'. Old age can push people to the edge of society; dementia often pushes them right out of sight, and then out of mind. They are the missing persons.

Over the past few years I have visited a great many residential homes, at home and abroad, and each time I step over the threshold I feel an anticipatory lowering of the spirits, a kind of muted dejection.

The inn looks quite luxurious, but their host explains that as the plague has racked up victims, people have grown more and more afraid to leave their homes, terrified to purchase things from those who have been stricken.

There is love in these old logs and in RJ's workmanship and I can feel it every time I walk inside. We call such a limited number of relationships love in our lives, but there is always love around us—it's as ubiquitous as oxygen. It lives in the houses where we've slept, the kitchens where we've cooked, in the food we've prepared for the people we love and in the walls we have shaped with our hands.

I have two homes in Malibu, a home in Canada that I'm building, and I just love pouring my heart out into this part of my life.

I seldom visit people's homes, for despite the hospitality offered I often suffer a feeling of confinement or imagined pressure.

Behind her smile I could see o many other things, a catastrophic sadness. I had assisted to the selfless guardians of the unfortunate children who suffered infinite loss, their family, their homes, and nature as they had known and trusted.

saying, “Return to your homes with your great wealth, with immense herds of livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, iron, and very many clothes. Divide with your brothers the spoil of your enemies.”

Others were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our homes to get grain during the famine.”

Do not long for the night, when people vanish from their homes.

May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.

They will build houses and dwell in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylonís homes have been set ablaze, the bars of her gates are broken.

They will plunder your wealth and pillage your merchandise. They will demolish your walls, tear down your beautiful homes, and throw your stones and timber and soil into the water.

The best of all the firstfruits and of every contribution from all your offerings will belong to the priests. You are to give your first batch of dough to the priest, so that a blessing may rest upon your homes.

They will come trembling like birds from Egypt and like doves from the land of Assyria. Then I will settle them in their homes, declares the LORD.

They storm the city; they run along the wall; they climb into houses, entering through windows like thieves.

They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.

Then the disciples returned to their homes.