Quotes on Home

Good words will not give my people good health and stop them from dying. Good words will not get my people a home where they can live in peace and take care of themselves. I am tired of talk that comes to nothing. It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and broken promises.

Always leave people with a solution; the heaven if you do versus the hell if you don't. If you're really skillful you can put the person into the future solution. Shoaff used to say, 'Jim, I can see you now in your new clothes, in your new home, in your new car. I can see others walking up to you.' The Promise of the Future is an Awesome Force!

Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.

The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home.

It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.

One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

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

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.

It was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his children feel that home was the happiest place in the world; and I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.

At length his lonely cot appears in view,_x000D_ _x000D_ Beneath the shelter of an aged tree;_x000D_ _x000D_ Th' expectant wee-things, toddling, stacher thro'_x000D_ _x000D_ To meet their Dad, wi' flichterin noise an' glee.

A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. For human beings are not so constituted that they can live without expansion. If they do not get it in one way, they must in another, or perish.

The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.

You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.

Every one in his own house and God in all of them.

The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are invoking that home, so you are assuaging the homesickness.

To make a happy fireside clime_x000D_ _x000D_ To weans and wife,_x000D_ _x000D_ That's the true pathos and sublime_x000D_ _x000D_ Of human life.

Peace and rest at length have come,_x000D_ _x000D_ All the day's long toil is past;_x000D_ _x000D_ And each heart is whispering, "Home,_x000D_ _x000D_ Home at last!"

The relationship between man and space is none other than dwelling, strictly thought and spoken.