Home Quotes

I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

Babe Ruth

Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.

Irish Prove

Home is where you wear your hat.

Buckaroo Banzai (the film)

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.

Peter De Vries

Teach children to be polite and courteous in the home, and, when he grows up, he will never be able to edge his car onto a freeway.

Unknown

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

Aldous Huxley

This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

Elmer Davis

Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight - Lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.

Smiley Blanton

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - - - And let the air out of their tires.

Dorothy Parke

This nation will never go back to the false comforts of the world before 9 11. We are engaging the enemy as we must, in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, so we will not have to face them here at home.

Dick Cheney, KCI Expo Center, June 1 2004

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.

Clare Booth Luce

Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.

Ann Douglas

In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Melody Beattie

A good home must be made, not bought.

Joyce Maynard, "Domestic Affairs".

If Christ Jesus be the periode, the end and the lodging - Home at the end of your journey, there is no fear ye go to a friend... ye may look death in the face with joy.

Samual Rutherford

Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

Casey Stengel

Reggie Smith of the Dodgers and Gary Matthews of the homers hit Braves in that game.

Jerry Coleman

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

H. L. Mencken

Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately homes or products of mill or field are our country It is the splendid thought that is in our minds.

Benjamin Harrison

The happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

Thomas Jefferson

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

Jawaharlal Nehru

A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.

Author Unknown

Home - Keeping youth have ever homely wits.

William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 1 scene 1

If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen.

Samuel Adams

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

Bill Cosby

Slater Behind every good man there is a woman, and that woman was Martha Washington man, and everyday George would come home, she would have a big fat bowl waiting for him, man when he come in the door, man she was a hip, hip, hip lady, man.

Dazed and Confused

Your body is just the place your memory calls home.

Deepak Chopra, Quantum Healing

Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.

Jimmy Carte

Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.

Clare Ansberry, The Women of Troy Hill

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

Ricthe

Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure Is there a better way to die.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

There is no place more delightful than home.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A home without books is a body without soul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

When a traveller returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath travelled altogether behind him.

Francis Bacon, 1597 - 1625

Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.

Quentin Crisp