Home Quotes

The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page.

Saint Augustine

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have.

Edgar Watson Howe

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Alan Bleasdale

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy.

Mahatma Gandhi

Home is where you wear your hat.

Buckaroo Banzai (the film)

If a dog will not come to you after he has looked you in face, you should go home and examine your consicence.

Woodrow Wilson

A person travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

George Moore

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

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

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

In love of home, the love of country has its rise.

Charles Dickens

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

Francis Bacon, 1597 - 1625

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

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

Dorothy Parke

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.

Will Durant

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

Clare Ansberry, The Women of Troy Hill

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