Home Quotes

If home isn't a place, what is it?''A feeling.

~ Julianna Baggott

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

~ H.l. Mencken

I mean, by such flightiness, something that feels unsatisfied at the center of my life — that makes me shaky, fickle, inquisitive, and hungry. I could call it a longing for home and not be far wrong. Or I could call it a longing for whatever supersedes, if it cannot pass through, understanding. Other words that come to mind: faith, grace, rest. In my outward appearance and life habits I hardly change — there’s never been a day that my friends haven’t been able to say, and at a distance, “There’s Oliver, still standing around in the weeds. There she is, still scribbling in her notebook.” But, at the center: I am shaking; I am flashing like tinsel. Restless. I read about ideas. Yet I let them remain ideas. I read about the poet who threw his books away, the better to come to a spiritual completion. Yet I keep my books. I flutter; I am attentive, maybe I even rise a little, balancing; then I fall back.

~ Mary Oliver

Life is not fair; you do what it takes and at the end, you are the only person going home with empty hands.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Clothes are a homeless man’s home.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I want my own bed, in my own apartment. Home sweet home. No place like home. Take me home, country roads. Home is where the heart is. But my heart is here. So I must be home.

~ Audrey Niffenegger

When the wind blows here, it is your wind; and when the water gurgles among the rocks, it speaks only to you. The mountain stands so that only your eyes can view its glory, and the hill for only your legs to challenge its upward slope. Upon this land you took your first steps, and upon it you swear to take your last. It is always to this place that you feel compelled to return—home.

~ Michael Puttonen

Deep inside her heart, I was feeling my home like a hay made nest.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

We learned the shocking truth that home isn't necessarily a certain spot on earth. It must be a place where you can feel at home, which means free to us.

~ Maria Augusta Von Trapp

Home is what we know we ought to want but can't really take. America is not so much a home for anyone as a universal dream of home, a wish whose attraction depends upon its remaining at the level of a wish. The movies bring the boys back but stop as soon as they get them back; for home, that vaunted, all-American ideal, is a sort of death, and an oblique justification for all the wandering that kept you away from it for so long.

~ Michael Wood

His voice was everything she equated with home.

~ Tracy Guzeman

Being at home was like a mattress to fall back on with the smallest of peas on the bottom, just large enough to bother the princess. I was damn lucky that I had a place to call home, but I didn't like the feeling of stealing my parents food and being unable to tell them when I could ever afford my own.

~ Alida Nugent

Home is where you feel loved, and homeland is where you love.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

To a homeless man, home is literally where the heart is.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It is quiet at home today. I got my wisdom tooth extracted.

~ Andy Paula

As the Mississippi snaked and their old home slipped further away, perhaps Samuel had finally left the curse behind.

~ Andrew Galasetti

So if someone is thinking about me, then that's the place I go ?

~ Masashi Kishimoto

Where we love is home

~ Cassia Leo

The sea is calm tonight.The tide is full, the moon lies fairUpon the straits;- on the French coast the lightGleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.

~ Matthew Arnold

Home gives you something no other place can... your history. Home is where your history begins.

~ Billie Letts

I started off for home, where I planned to recruit a good book and hide away from the world.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Paradise is a state of being, more than just the name of a suburb or a home.

~ Raquel Cepeda

That is the definition of truth, it is the thing you must not say. “The miracle into which the child and the poet walk” [Tsvetaeva] as if walking home, and home is there…The thing that is both known and unknown, this is what we are looking for when we write. We go toward the most unknown and the best unknown, this is what we are looking for when we write. We go toward the best known unknown thing, where knowing and not knowing touch, where we hope we will know what is unknown. Where we hope we will not be afraid of understanding the incomprehensible, facing invisible, hearing the inaudible, thinking the unthinkable, which is of course: thinking. Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort. Painting is trying to paint what you cannot paint and writing is writing what you cannot know before you have written: it is preknowing and not knowing, blindly, with words. It occurs at the point where blindness and light meet. Kafka says—one very small line lost in his writing—“to the depths, to the depths.

~ Hélène Cixous

It was good to be a stranger in a land when you felt aggressive and acquisitive, but when you began to weave your horizons into some kind of shelter it was good to know that hands you loved had helped in their spinning - made you feel as if the threads would hold together better.

~ Zelda Fitzgerald

Home was where others had to gather grace. Home was what I wanted to flee.

~ Jerry Pinto

Only where there is life can there be home.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

Home is where you were conditioned.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

It's nice to watch television but it's even nicer when you've got a drink in your hand,' Gregory Ratcliffe, a Birmingham shopkeeper, told Reynolds News. 'Makes it more intimate somehow. Gives you the feeling that you're in a posh cabaret.

~ David Kynaston

Our house was open to anyone who needed a little extra support or comfort or just a home-cooked meal.

~ Nina Sankovitch

This was a great magic. Festin had no more performed it than has any man who in exile or danger longs for the earth and waters of his home, seeing and yearning over the doorsill of his house, the table where he has eaten, the branches outside the window of the room where he has slept. Only in dreams do any but the great Mages realize this magic of going home.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Only now, when it is too late, do I long for Dearth. I was a misbegotten child of bad blood and bile, and I mistook my own orneriness for cleverness. I presumed to know what happiness was - something I could possess, like a marble, or a man. Something I could only find elsewhere. But just when I started to find it at home, I outfoxed myself and lost it forever.

~ Jane Avrich

...home lies in the things you carry with you everywhere and not the ones that tie you down.

~ Pico Iyer

Home. It's being new and old all rolled into one. Measuring your new against old friends, old ways, old places, Knowing that as long as the old survives, you can keep changing as much as you want without the nightmare of waking up to a total stranger.

~ Gloria Naylor

The Lord said unto me, 'I will take my rest and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs.

~ Anonymous

This is her home now--of her own free will.

~ Paul Gallico

the cemetery is the home of those who are not here, come in.

~ Italo Calvino

again, her singing was her only absolute, the only thing that was completely her. a thousand classes hadn't given her this concrete insight: her voice was her place in the world, the home she leaves in the morning and returns to at night, in which she can be herself in her entirety and hope to be loved for all that she is and in spite of all she is.

~ David Grossman

Home is the school where we learn that love shows itself in the details.

~ Andi Ashworth

Everyone should feel comfortable they are going to remain in their homes until their dying days. We should never be uneasy or unsure of where our home is in the United States of America.

~ Tit Elingtin

Everyone has a right to love the land that gave them the things they need to live. It gives them beauty to look at, and food to eat, and neighbors to bicker with and then eventually to marry. But I think... that your own devotion to your familiar homeland should inspire you to allow other people to embrace their homelands as beautiful too.

~ Gregory Maguire