Home Quotes

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of their tires.

“Home” is any four walls that enclose the right person.

I was eight years old and running with A dime in my hand Into the bus stop to pick up a paper For my old man I’d sit on his lap in that big old Buick And steer as we drove through the town. He’d tousle my hair and say “Son take a good look […]

The stately homes of England! How beautiful they stand, Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O’er all the pleasant land!

My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong. (Irish American labor organizer and humanitarian)

Once, when our children were about five and eight, they were caught arguing. I can remember my husband stopping them and saying, “This is home. Now, outside of these four walls people are going to hurt you, they’re going to call you names. But inside these four walls we build each other. Do you understand? […]

You can’t appreciate home till you’ve left it, money till it’s spent, your wife until she’s joined a woman’s club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on a shanty of a consul in a foreign town.

There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction. One has to go abroad in order to find the home one has lost.

The man who has a house everywhere has a home nowhere.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.