quotations about home
Some keep the Sabbath going to church;
I keep it staying at home,
With a bobolink for a chorister,
And an orchard for a dome.
EMILY DICKINSON
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church
Parents! do not send your sons and daughters from home. Do not destroy the love for your fireside, and the objects about home. Let their eyes rest upon the same furniture, and the same prospects; let their slumbers be, where they slept when very young. There are valuable associations there. Keep them under the shadow of your wings. They were given to you; who can watch over them like you?
WILSON CONWORTH
The Knickerbocker, Feb. 1837
There are many homes, serene enough to the observer from the outside, that, under the surface, are like armed camps.
JOHN DANIEL BARRY
"The Home", Reactions and Other Essays Discussing Those States of Feeling and Attitude of Mind That Find Expression In Our Individual Qualities
When home is ruled according to God's word, angels might be asked to stay a night with us, and they would not find themselves out of their element.
CHARLES SPURGEON
John Ploughman's Talk and Pictures
"The old-fashioned homes are disappearing," I recently heard a woman say, with regret in her tone. When I asked her what she meant, she replied: "When I was a girl, though we didn't have much money, we lived in a big, comfortable house, and we had enough to eat and enough to share with any friends who happened to drop in. We had an open-hearted way of living. Our house, like most of the houses of our friends, was an active social center, and it had all kinds of wholesome associations. In a true sense of the word, it gave us the feeling of home. Whenever we went away we knew we should have this place to go back to, and we should find the old happy life going on there just the same. Nowadays people are tending more and more to live in a make-shift way, in apartments and flats. They move often. In my youth the idea of moving would have been like a revolution or an earthquake. We felt that we were as deeply rooted in the home as if we were trees. We had our roots in the ground. Now people think nothing of moving once a year, or even oftener. The result is that we are losing the old stability and the old associations that did so much to give home its healthy atmosphere."
JOHN DANIEL BARRY
"The Home", Reactions and Other Essays Discussing Those States of Feeling and Attitude of Mind That Find Expression In Our Individual Qualities
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
GASTON BACHELARD
The Poetics of Space
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
JAMES BALDWIN
Giovanni's Room
Shod with wings is the horse of him who rides
On a Spring day the road that leads to home.
BAI JUYI
"After Passing the Examination"
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail--its roof may shake--the wind may blow through it--the storm may enter--the rain may enter--but the King of England cannot enter!--all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!
WILLIAM PITT THE ELDER
The Edinburgh Review, Jul. 1838
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
attributed, Life of Samuel Johnson
Home is like a house inside your head where your thoughts gather. You learn to love others in the living room where you let the light in. Some rooms will be dark places where your demons reside. Learn to control that darkness. Let those uninvited guests have their moments, then usher them out the door. You have forgiveness when the demons become powerless. They will always come back, but you have freedom when you become the keeper of the keys.
MARCUS ERIKSEN
My River Home
Though the fire of the heart may have withered its core
Unto ashes and dust--though the head have turned hoar
Ere its time, as the surfs o'er the breakers that foam--
Still, a tear will arise when we think upon Home.
ALBERT PIKE
"Home"
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.
PETER DE VRIES
The Tunnel of Love
In countries where people have to flee their homes because of persecution and violence, political solutions must be found, peace and tolerance restored, so that refugees can return home. In my experience, going home is the deepest wish of most refugees.
ANGELINA JOLIE
BBC News interview, Apr. 8, 2004
If joy, kindness, consideration, happiness, service should radiate from every one in the home, it would be the dearest place on earth. A single bitter word may make the entire family unhappy for a whole day.
WALTER MATTHEWS
"Home", Human Life from Many Angles
There are some people who believe that home is where one hang's one's hat, but these people tend to live in closets and on little pegs.
DANIEL HANDLER (as Lemony Snicket)
Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
It is easy to listen to far off echoes unmoved, and we can treat them with disbelief, or scorn, or disdain, or whatever attitude of coldness may suit our purpose. But when the scandal came close home it was another matter; and the feelings of independence and integrity which is in people of every community which is not utterly spoiled, asserted itself and demanded that condemnation should be expressed.
BRAM STOKER
"The Secret of the Growing Gold"
What's a home without people? Just a big house with a dog in it.
JOHN RAPPAPORT & LARRY GELBART
"Oh, How We Danced", M*A*S*H
Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old remembered joy.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
The difference between a house and a home is like the difference between a man and a woman--it might be embarrassing to explain, but it would be very unusual to get them confused.
DANIEL HANDLER (as Lemony Snicket)
Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid