Home Quotes

In a nice little house in Atro City there lived a man called Doktor Gleichstein. He was a kind of scientist, and he was very good at his job, which is why he always worked from home. He looked a little funny because he kept losing his eyebrows. Quantum Physics, is sort of like ordinary Physics, only you tend to spend a lot more time looking for the cat. He worked in the sitting room because he’d blown the garage up once already. Apparently a lot of things happened by accident in Quantum Physics.

~ Christina Engela

Thing were falling apart. We just could not slow down. We were evolving into something greater, perhaps too much for our own good. And one thing always remained as I moved on. I saved a little bit of love just in case you would ever return home.

~ Robert M. Drake

It’s not easy to kill; it’s not supposed to be. If it is, then there’s something wrong with you. But sometimes good people have to do unpleasant things just so we can come home at night to our kids.

~ Skip Coryell

Your positive impact on the generations to come will be directly related to the ministry you have in that little place called home.

~ Jim George

This is not just our world.

~ Mario Stinger

Home is the place I can live with myself, without hating myself.

~ Peggy Lampman

I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house?

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

The road to home is when we find our hearts filled with the stories of our people.

~ Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.

~ Dorothy Parker

Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?

~ Stephanie Perkins

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.

~ Edith Sitwell

Home's where you go when you run out of homes.

~ John Le Carré

At the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have been before.

~ Warsan Shire

How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.

~ William Faulkner

The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

~ Maya Angelou

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

~ Jean Cocteau

I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was. Likewise, I never imagined that home might be something I would miss.

~ Ransom Riggs

One never reaches home,' she said. 'But where paths that have an affinity for each other intersect, the whole world looks like home, for a time.

~ Hermann Hesse

Well, sometimes home is a person.

~ Beth Revis

Home isn't a place, its a feeling

~ Cecelia Ahern

Home is everything you can walk to.

~ Jerry Spinelli

I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe.

~ Maya Angelou

It doesn’t matter how many times you leave, it will always hurt to come back and remember what you once had and who you once were. Then it will hurt just as much to leave again, and so it goes over and over again. Once you’ve started to leave, you will run your whole life.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever leave home

~ Sue Monk Kidd

Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.

~ Wallace Stegner

I realise now that I wanted to disappear. To get so lost that nobody ever found me. To go so far away that I'd never be able to make my way home again. But I have no idea why.

~ Jessica Warman

This person realizes that staying home means blowing off everyone this person has ever known. But the desire to stay in is very strong. This person wants to run a bath and then read in bed.

~ Miranda July

A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?

~ Mark Twain

Looking at the elementary schoolers in their colorful T-shirts from various day camps, Percy felt a twinge of sadness. He should be at Camp Half-Blood right now, settling into his cabin for the summer, teaching sword-fighting lessons in the arena, playing pranks on the other counselors. These kids had no idea just how crazy a summer camp could be.

~ Rick Riordan

I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.

~ Mitch Albom

I know this world is far from perfect.I am not the type to mistake a streetlight for the moon.I know our wounds are deep as the Atlantic.But every ocean has a shorelineand every shoreline has a tidethat is constantly returningto wake the songbirds in our hands,to wake the music in our bones,to place one fearless kiss on the mouth of that new born riverthat has to run through the center of our heartsto find its way home.

~ Andrea Gibson

I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.

~ Joanne Harris

In life, a person will come and go from many homes. We may leave a house, a town, a room, but that does not mean those places leave us. Once entered, we never entirely depart the homes we make for ourselves in the world. They follow us, like shadows, until we come upon them again, waiting for us in the mist.

~ Ari Berk

Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness. I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are is my home—my only home.

~ Charlotte Brontë

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark ... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and abso

~ Germaine Greer

No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.

~ Warsan Shire

A real love letter is made of insight, understanding, and compassion. Otherwise it's not a love letter. A true love letter can produce a transformation in the other person, and therefore in the world. But before it produces a transformation in the other person, it has to produce a transformation within us. Some letters may take the whole of our lifetime to write.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again.

~ Madeleine L'engle

I don't care if we have our house, or a cliff ledge, or a cardboard box. Home is wherever we all are, together

~ James Patterson

And then I laugh, because it's so ridiculous and so gorgeous and it's all I an do to not melt into a fit of giggles. So what if I'm ninety-three? So what if I'm ancient and cranky and my body's a wreck? If they're willing to accept me and my guilty conscience, why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus? It's like Charlie told the cop. For this old man, this IS home.

~ Sara Gruen