Home Quotes

Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it; and it has never been adopted there.

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home.

A girl phoned me the other day and said, “Come on over; nobody’s home.” I went over. Nobody was home.

How does it feel To be without a home Like a complete unknown Like a rolling stone? (Robert Zimmerman)

The Englishman, hidden behind his hedge or wall, is not interested in his neighbor’s house, and the idea of wanting to read about houses bought, sold, or built by total strangers is not even funny; it is merely absurd… But to an American, it is not only important, it is comforting, it is gratifying that […]

The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle. It stands for permanence and separation from the world.

To most men their early home is no more than a memory of their early years. The image is never marred. There’s no dissappointment in memory, and one’s exaggerations are always on the good side.

Home is eating cold watermelon together on a hot day in the backyard and building a snowman six months later in the same spot. Home is where I discover wonder and learn to dream. It is where I find joy.

The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn’t need its brain anymore so it eats it! (It’s rather […]