Home Quotes

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? […]

Home is not the one tame place in a world of adventure; it is the one wild place in a world of rules and set tasks.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

I never saw an oft-transplanted tree, Nor yet an oft-removed family, That throve so well as those that settled be.

Home wasn’t built in a day.

To an open house in the evening, Home shall men come, To an older place than Eden, And a taller town than Rome.

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.

There’s a little gray house in a one-street town, And the door stands open, and the steps go down, And you prop up the window with a stick on the sill, And you carry spring water from the bottom of the hill; And the white star of Bethlehem grows in the yard; And I can’t […]