Home Quotes
A good home must be made, not bought.Joyce Maynard, "Domestic Affairs".
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
Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all - Ight drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.John le Carre, "The Chancellor Who Agreed To Play Spy, in The New York Times, May 8, 1974
It used to take courage - - Indeed, it was the act of courage par excellence - - To leave the comforts of home and family and go out into the world seeking adventure. Today there are fewer places to discover, and the real adventure is to stay at home.Alvaro de Solva
There is a homely old adage which runs Speak softly and carry a big stick you will go far. If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.Theodore Roosevelt
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.Phyllis Dille
My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back.Fred Allen
True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.John Hay, Distichs, latter 19th century
Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.Clare Ansberry, The Women of Troy Hill
Mitch True love is hard to find, sometimes you think you have true love and then you catch the early flight home from San Diego and a couple of nude people jump out of your bathroom blindfolded like a goddamn magic show ready to double team your girlfriend...Old School
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.Ken Olsen, CEO DEC 1977
Home is where the house is.Child Age 6
The goal of every married couple, indeed, every Christian home, should be to make Christ the Head, the Counselor and the Guide.Paul Sadle
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.Sir Francis Bacon
Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.Ann Douglas
There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.Voltaire
Are these perilous times? They are. But we can have peace in our hearts and in our homes.Gordon B. Hinkley, Speech given in October 2001
No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there - well or poorly.Joseph Brodsky
An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news - writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for himself.Sir Henry Wotton, "Reliquae Wottonianae".
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
If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.A. Edward Newton
Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.Leonid Brezhnev
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
A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.Buddha
Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.Quentin Crisp
I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run.Babe Ruth
True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.John Hay
Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.Alfred Lord Tennyson
Somehow he Tim gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant for them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.Charles Dickens
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.Clare Booth Luce
Not going home is already like death.E. Catherine Tobler, Vanishing Act
Eventually, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.Neal A. Maxwell
A person travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.George Moore
An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.Robert Benchley
We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.Mother Theresa
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.
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
