Home Quotes

I took [Kate's] hand in mine, and felt her fingers squeeze back. And I thought: home. It took me completely by surprise. But I suppose that once you bid farewell to your first home, you're always looking for another—that place where you can feel happy and strong and at your best. For three years I'd called the Aurora home. But now that I lived in Paris, it was not the city itself that was home. It was Kate.

~ Kenneth Oppel

I wanted my home to be a haven, like coming in from the cold to a big warm hug.

~ Cathy Bramley

The world turns gray, the air grows cool, the fog blows in. Only at evening can you really value home.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It is to the prodigals...that the memory of their Father's house comes back. If the son had lived economically he would never have thought of returning.

~ Simone Weil

But [Coca-Cola] was also genuinely welcomed by the servicemen in far-flung military bases: Coca-Cola reminded them of home and helped to maintain morale.

~ Tom Standage

The contemplative man always lives alone. Regardless of who may reside in his home, his is a solitary world.

~ Daniel J. Rice

Just like our story, the original Christmas tales were stories of searching, not so much for the lost, as for the familiar. Mary and Joseph sought in Bethlehem- the home of their familial ancestry- a place to start their own family; the three kings from the East journeyed beneath the sentinel star to find the King of Kings; and the shepherds sought a child in a place most familiar to them: a manger.

~ Richard Paul Evans

Like waking up in our home one night to find ourselves in a blazing fire, we must be arsonists of emotion, forcing ourselves to grab only what is truly important to us before our life-rafters collapse in on us and we can no longer escape alive.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Why not surround yourself with things that make you content? After all, there's no place like home.

~ Jean Oram

Why any one place should forever hold enchantment for the reason you are born there is a mystery.

~ Robert Ripley

Being inside this cottage, with dark wooden walls and hand-carved furniture like my own home, cast a darkened stain onto my heart.

~ Katherine Mcintyre

He rose and walked to the windows. The moon reflected the pristine whiteness blowing into shadowy silvery mounds beneath the stars. It spread out before him, all pure and flowing and sterling. There'd always been a gentle peace and welcome solitude on a wintry night in this house. A place of memories and innocent times; a place for new plans.

~ Dee Holmes

Home is in here [tapping temple]. Where you live is just a geographical preference.

~ Lemmy Kilmister

It makes a soul lonely when even your tongue has no home.

~ Kiersten White

Maybe home is something we have to make, and remake, over and over. But it's hard to make things when you're afraid―or you're certain—that they'll just be broken.

~ Michelle Sagara

I was not merely cleaning an oven, I was improving the world.

~ Agnostic Zetetic

There is a certain loveliness, I think, to performing deep cleaning in one’s underwear on a beautiful summer day.

~ Agnostic Zetetic

We move much too fast, and too frequently, to pause to savor landscapes or avoid disfiguring clutter.

~ Edwin M. Yoder Jr.

Couches and tables and beds don’t make a home. Home is where you feel less alone.

~ A. Lynn

Home is not necessarily, where the heart is. It is also, where good food,people, and sanity resides.even if that accounts for a house, with no people in it.

~ Anjali Mukherjee

But I thought you were home to stay,” she said, exhaustion clear in her voice.“Ellie, you were my home.” He looked down at the sleeping infant. “But I can’t stick around and watch you make the biggest mistake of your life.

~ Lindsey Brookes

For me, the consolation of history resides in the fact that hypothetically returning to any point in time feels like coming home.

~ Martha M. Moravec

In the space, the pause between this breath and the one that follows, you have made a home inside me.

~ Tyler Knott Gregson

You don't have to go away to know where your home is.

~ Morgan Matson

No matter who you are or where you are, instinct tells you to go home

~ Laura Marney

I felt the kind of peace you feel when you come in from a hot afternoon and pour cold water over your feet.

~ Sachin Kundalkar

There was some part of me that never left that house. Rather, some part of the house that wouldn't leave me.

~ Kate Morton

Home was merely a dull ache in the back of his memory. A tiredness in his eyes.

~ Orson Scott Card

Dorrie gave Larry's hand an excited, distracted squeeze that said: almost home. They were about to be matter-of-factly claimed by familiar streets and houses and the life they'd chosen or which had chosen them.

~ Carol Shields

I had always thought of home not as a house, or even a place, but a feeling of safety and acceptance, a warm light when the rest of the world was a dark, forbidding place.Whenever my family was around, wherever we were, I felt like I was home.

~ Elizabeth Haydon

...I'd come home but nearly everybody does. It's the ones that don't go home that I feel sorry for, they're not happy.

~ Laura Marney

there was a time when this home was her domain. Sometimes she felt proud of it, sometimes she felt tied to it, but whether it was a burden or a blessing, it was hers to keep. She’d known better than anyone what this house needed; lately it’d become one of the few aspects of her life she could control. there is no corner, no ridge along the steps or crack along the wall, that she doesn’t know like her own body. the house may never have been the sanctuary she’d always dreamed of, but at least it carried no surprises. It was comfortable.

~ Natalia Sylvester

My other boy thing is that I sort of have a teeny tiny superpower. It’s not a jump-over-buildings, see-through-people’s-clothes, or lift-a-train-over-my-head one, which is good, because when you can do those kinds of things you probably have to live in a secret hideout instead of at home with your mom and dad. And I really like my room….

~ Charise Mericle Harper

Home isn't just a trailer or four walls and a roof, home is the people that you love.

~ Rosie Mckinley

There’s a reason you don’t have pictures of your work area at sweet home.

~ Santosh Inani

Yet though Americans have been driving up to their houses for decades and entering through backdoors, side doors, kitchen doors, and especially doors through garages, architects keep designing houses with ceremonial front doors that are nowhere near any car or driveway.

~ Akiko Busch

The Tejo runs down from SpainAnd the Tejo goes into the sea in Portugal.Everybody knows that.But not many people know the river of my villageAnd where it comes fromAnd where it’s going.And so, because it belongs to less people,The river of my village is freer and greater.

~ Alberto Caeiro

Sometimes, all it takes is one arm wrap-round. And a heart’s home.

~ Alyse M. Gardner

Freedom meant one thing to him—home.But they wouldn't let him go home.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It’s amazing how many different roads we can take, but they all lead home.

~ Jewel E. Ann