Home Quotes

(...) everything I'd been longing to get away from, true, but not through destruction. I'd wanted to leave home, but have it stay in place, waiting for me, unchanged, so I could step back into it at will.

~ Margaret Atwood

I should probably warn you, my love isn't roses and champagne. I'm obsessive, jealous, and controlling, but I'm faithful and I'll be here when you need someone.

~ Suzanne Steele

Mr. Arsenikos said if you knew the constellations you would never get lost. You could always find your way home.

~ Bryn Greenwood

It is not the truth which has to be sought, it is you who have to be brought home.

~ Osho

Coming back to Karachi is like stepping into the sea again after months on land. How easily you float, how peaceful is the sense of being borne along, and how familiar the sound of the water lapping against your limbs.

~ Kamila Shamsie

I mean . . . I don't know. I don't know what I want to do, or who I want to be, or where I want to live. I don't know. I like reading about adventure, sure, but I also like doing it from the safety of home. But what is home, besides a quilt-covered bed? Where is it?

~ Stephanie Perkins

We call it ‘back home’knowing full well that the majority of us may never go back. That we may spend but a handful of weeks in the tropic heat and relentless traffic,tolerating family members we may have convincedourselves to have missed, but very few will submit to that final pull to return. We know our land, our soil as back home, but for many of usit is only the home we left back,the one we left so far behind to be thrust into a lifelong searchof another, of another, of another.

~ Naveed Khan

Oblige me by telling me where I am.That is impossible. You know nothing about whereness. The only way to come to know where you are is to begin to make yourself at home.

~ George Macdonald

Where are you going?” Wesley asked in a semi-sleepy voice.“Home.” I pulled on my jeans. “I’ve gotta take a shower and get ready for school.”He pushed himself up on one elbow to look at me. His hair was a mess, brown curls falling into his eyes and sticking up in the back. “You can shower here,” he offered. “I might even join you if you’re lucky.

~ Kody Keplinger

You know what I remember most vividly from that hospital? There were creases in the pillowcase. I was in pain when they brought me in. They'd bandaged me up before transporting me, but they hand't had anything to deaden that kind of pain. So I wasn't clear in my head. I don't remember who was holding the stretcher, anything like that. But when they lifted me up, and I looked at the cot I'd be transferred to, even as they tipped me onto it, I noticed the creases in the pillowcase, and it was everything I could do not to cry. You get used to things being dusty and gritty and oily, you really do, but then, when there's something clean, something that's been folded carefully, and unfolded carefully and it's there for your head, it's like your heart, it's like I don't know, I can't describe it.

~ Alison Jean Lester

But can't you even imagine what it must feel like to have a true home? I don't mean heaven. I mean a real earthly home. Not some fortress you bought and built up and have to keep everybody locked in or out. A real home. Not some place you went to and invaded and slaughtered people to get. Not some place you claimed, snatched because you got the guns. Not some place you stole from the people living there, but your own home, where if you go back past your great-great-grandparents, past theirs, and theirs, past the whole of Western history, past the beginning of organized knowledge, past pyramids and poison bows, on back to when rain was new, before plants forgot they could sing and birds thought they were fish, back when God said Good! Good!-- there, right there where you know your own people were born and lived and died. Imagine that, Pat. That place. Who was God talking to if not to my people living in my home?You preaching, Reverend.No, I'm talking to you, Pat. I'm talking to you.

~ Toni Morrison

One works hard to prop up an illusion that sucks the life out of them, and the other works hard to make their home a place that restores them, nurtures them, and gives life to others.

~ Craig Groeschel

Home, to many of the people I interviewed, is a good, comfortable feeling about the place where they live, and a sense that their place is going to be theirs for a while....Home is any place, any experience that feeds his soul in some positive way.

~ Bella Depaulo

Then, who is Matilda?' I asked.Toby tilted his cup and poked at the slush with his straw. 'I suppose Matilda's the girl who felt like home.

~ Carol Rifka Brunt

Home is a fairy tale, the kind where children are lost in the woods, found, cooked and eaten.

~ Jamie Ford

It turns out that home is not mostly a place. Home is someone putting her arms around you and saying the words your heart longs to hear: always and everywhere.

~ Anne Nesbet

He had left home one day, yesterday, and come home today, and the change was too much for him to bear. And this was why he could not go home all at once.

~ Robert Laxalt

The home is the center of life. It is a refuge from the grind of work, the pressure of school, and the menace of the streets. We say that at home, we can “be ourselves.” Everywhere else, we are someone else. At home, we remove our masks. The home is the wellspring of personhood. It is where our identity takes root and blossoms, where as children, we imagine, play, and question, and as adolescents, we retreat and try. As we grow older, we hope to settle into a place to raise a family or pursue work. When we try to understand ourselves, we often begin by considering the kind of home in which we were raised.

~ Matthew Desmond

I was moving forward into space, but i would never come home again

~ Bryn Greenwood

One can build a perfect home, but not live in it.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Home isn’t four walls, it’s the people you’re with.

~ Alexandra Bracken

Maybe I live in the gates that lead to outbound international flights. Maybe that is home.And do I feel more comfortable at the departures or at the arrivals?

~ Michal Coret

Christmas isn't a parade or concert but a piece of home you keep in your heart wherever you go.

~ Donna Vanliere

He reminds me of a comfortable sweater that you pull on, knowing it will keep you warm every time.

~ Katherine Reay

you are going to be sent home....I 'm glad of it but where's HOME ?

~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

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~ Tingkat Delivery

Love is when two (or more) hearts build a safe emotional, mental, and spiritual home that will stand strong no matter how much anyone changes on the inside or the outside. It demands only one things and expects only one thing: that each person be his or her own true self.

~ Neil Strauss

Temporary homecomings are bittersweet. Sometimes it's better not to go back at all than to have to leave again.

~ Amanda Bouchet

If you are lucky, home is not only a place that you leave, but also a place where you someday arrive.

~ Kate Bolick

History will see this as the residential commodification era, in which housing provision seemed to lose all contact between supply and demand of housing as a utility and simply focused on supply and demand of investment — and that is worrying. Investment is good for the economy, but the investment you want is investment that goes into creating homes, workplaces and infrastructure, not investing in owning them and inflating asset prices.

~ Peter Rees

A traditional house smelled of wood smoke, the earth, and of thatch; all good smells, the smell of life itself.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

Once in my room I don't have a goddamn clue what to do.

~ Kelly Thompson

She always said, 'When I'm home, I've got to get things done, even if there are visitors. Elizabeth knows how to relax in her own house.' And then she would shake her head, as if Elizabeth had remarkable powers.

~ Jane Smiley

If you want to radiation poison a nation, just start shipping them cheap ionizing smoke detectors for the home with a little too much radiation in them.

~ Steven Magee

It is not my wish to stay home so much that I become isolated, but to use the comforting influence of my home to restore and gather myself after each step I take in my expanding ability to participate in the world.

~ Maureen Brady

Purchasing a large and expensive home during a real estate boom turned into the biggest financial mistake that I ever made.

~ Steven Magee

Here, where we had done the most of our growing up, the old family home had been a fortress against the world. This is something that the children of immigrants all know.

~ Robert Laxalt

You know that when a group of utility workers are withholding their customer service identification cards, they are likely engaging in some form of illegal activity at your home.

~ Steven Magee

As far back as I can remember, there has always been a place to which I belonged with a certainty that nothing has been able to take from me. When I say place, that means less a geographical locality and more a group of people with whom I am connected and to whom I belong.

~ Sindiwe Magona

If there's a feeling to home, it's this. A place where there are no secrets, where nothing stays buried; not the past and not yourself. Where you can be all the versions of you, see it all reflected back at you as you walk the same stairs, the same halls, the same rooms. Feel the ghost of your mother as you sit at the kitchen table, hear the words of your father circling round and round after dinner, and your brother stopping by, wishing you'd be a little better, a little stronger.... It's four walls echoing back everything you've ever been and everything you've ever done, and it's the people who stay despite it all. Through it all. For it all.

~ Megan Miranda