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Short home quotes

  1. Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.

    Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht quote #45
  2. In love of home, the love of country has its rise.

    Charles DickensCharles Dickens quote #50
  3. Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

    Christian MorgensternChristian Morgenstern quote #2
  4. I love you, what star do you live on?

    Conrad AikenConrad Aiken quote #4
  5. For the love of God, folks, don't try this at home.

    David LettermanDavid Letterman quote #11
  6. I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger.

    Desiderius ErasmusDesiderius Erasmus quote #10
  7. Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.

    Edward AbbeyEdward Abbey quote #3
  8. Oh, to be home again, home again, home again! Under the apple-boughs, down by the mill!

    James Thomas FieldsJames Thomas Fields quote #3

More home quotes

  1. Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home return who him behold, Child to mother, sheep to fold, Bird to nest from wandering wide: Happy bridegroom, seek your bride.

    A. E. HousmanA. E. Housman quote #39
  2. Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from.

    Ada LeversonAda Leverson quote #7
  3. I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.

    Andy WarholAndy Warhol quote #35
  4. We're a long, long way from home, Bobbie; Home's a long, long way from us. I feel a dirty wind blowing; Devils and dust.

    Bruce SpringsteenBruce Springsteen quote #27
  5. Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

    Charles DickensCharles Dickens quote #71
  6. The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.

    Eden AhbezEden Ahbez quote #9
  7. Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

    Edith SitwellEdith Sitwell quote #14
  8. My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.

    Erma BombeckErma Bombeck quote #28
  9. My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

    Erma BombeckErma Bombeck quote #29
  10. A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.

    Garrison KeillorGarrison Keillor quote #14
  11. If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

    Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard quote #6
  12. Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

    George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw quote #148
  13. Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told.

    Harpo MarxHarpo Marx quote #3
  14. Science has taught us to lengthen life. Now we must learn to make a longer life worth living. Older people deserve choices that let us live out our days as we wish. We've seen people making such choices all over America, and we realize what we might have known from the start: For most of us, there really is no place like home.

    Helen HayesHelen Hayes quote #38
  15. Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air; And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair; And it's sweet to dream in Venice, and it's great to study Rome; But when it comes to living, there is no place like home.

    Henry van DykeHenry van Dyke quote #33
  16. When the virus of restlessness begins to take possession of a wayward man, and the road away from Here seems broad and straight and sweet, the victim must first find himself a good and sufficient reason for going.

    John SteinbeckJohn Steinbeck quote #45
  17. My home is not a place, it is people.

    Lois McMaster BujoldLois McMaster Bujold quote #15
  18. Housekeeping ain't no joke.

    Louisa May AlcottLouisa May Alcott quote #4
  19. Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell.

    Marvin GayeMarvin Gaye quote #9
  20. A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

    Milan KunderaMilan Kundera quote #16
  21. I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them.

    Nancy ReaganNancy Reagan quote #11
  22. I don't like to discuss my marriage, but I will tell you something which may sound corny but which happens to be true. I have steak at home. Why should I go out for hamburger?

    Paul NewmanPaul Newman quote #8
  23. What captivity has been to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish. For us, the romance of our native land begins only after we have left home; it is really only with other people that we become Irishmen.

    Peter AckroydPeter Ackroyd quote #4
  24. A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

    Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson quote #247
  25. We have found, in our country, that when people have the right to make decisions as close to home as possible, they usually make the right decisions.

    Ronald ReaganRonald Reagan quote #105
  26. Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.

    Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson quote #22
  27. You belong somewhere you feel free.

    Tom PettyTom Petty quote #52
  28. If you get far enough away you'll be on your way back home.

    Tom WaitsTom Waits quote #14
  29. Your street, rich street or poor Used to always be sure, on your street There's a place in your heart you know from the start Can't be complete outside of the street Keep moving on through the joy and the pain Sometimes you got to look back To the street again Would you prefer all those castles in Spain? Or the view of your street from your window pane?

    Van MorrisonVan Morrison quote #62
  30. Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

    Willa CatherWilla Cather quote #11
  31. A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

    William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray quote #49
  32. My birthplace was California, but I couldn't forget Armenia, so what is one's country? Is it land of the earth, in a specific place? Rivers there? Lakes? The sky there? The way the moon comes up there? And the sun? Is one's country the trees, the vineyards, the grass, the birds, the rocks, the hills and summer and winter? Is it the animal rhythm of the living there? The huts and houses, the streets of cities, the tables and chairs, and the drinking of tea and talking? Is it the peach ripening in summer heat on the bough? Is it the dead in the earth there?

    William SaroyanWilliam Saroyan quote #61
  33. Christmas is here: Winds whistle shrill, Icy and chill. Little care we; Little we fear Weather without, Sheltered about The Mahogany Tree.

    William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray quote #13
  34. I have been to the place, Armenia. There is no nation there, but that is all the better. But I have been to that place, and I know this: that there is no nation in the world, no England and France and Italy, and no nation whatsoever.

    William SaroyanWilliam Saroyan quote #60
  35. 'Living with a woman is going to be really tough. They tend to be really domesticated, you know. They fold things and clean things and know what they are going to have for dinner several hours before it's time to eat.'

    Don MillerDon Miller quote #12
  36. Can I quit now? Can I come home?

    Michael D. BrownMichael D. Brown quote #15
  37. For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier...I put them in the same room and let them fight it out...then I put wax in the humidifier...now my room's all shiny.

    Steven WrightSteven Wright quote #18
  38. Jagger had gone through there. Harley also went through. Somewhere he did not know, somewhere whose existence he had not guessed.: Somewhere that wasn't the house.:

    Brian AldissBrian Aldiss quote #19
  39. The little white dove Has returned to the ark with the bough; And now the turtle-dove Its desired mate On the green banks has found. ~ 34

    John of the CrossJohn of the Cross quote #17
  40. The thundering waves are calling me home to you The pounding sea is calling me home to you

    Loreena McKennittLoreena McKennitt quote #7
  41. A painting hangs on an ivy wall Nestled in the emerald moss The eyes declare a truce of trust And then it draws me far away Where deep in the desert twilight Sand melts in pools of the sky When darkness lays her crimson cloak Your lamps will call me home

    Loreena McKennittLoreena McKennitt quote #12
  42. motherland cradle me close my eyes lullaby me to sleep keep me safe lie with me stay beside me don't go, don't you go

    Natalie MerchantNatalie Merchant quote #48
  43. I can't hold on very long Forgive me, pretty baby, but I always take the long way home

    Norah JonesNorah Jones quote #10
  44. Most people, brought much more than this when they traveled. Perhaps because they were insecure, and needed to surround themselves with familiar things, or to feel that they had many choices to make each day when they dressed, so they didn't have to be so frightened or feel so powerless. Obviously that was not Hunahpuh's problem. He apparently never felt fear at all, or perhaps never regarded himself as a stranger. How remarkable it would be to feel at home in any place. I wish I had that gift

    Orson Scott CardOrson Scott Card quote #772
  45. You don't burn the house you want to dwell in. You don't sink the boat on which you ride

    Orson Scott CardOrson Scott Card quote #840
  46. Ah me, why did they build my house by the road to the market town? ~ 4

    Rabindranath TagoreRabindranath Tagore quote #29
  47. 'Home is where Gauri and the children are...' - Shahrukh Khan

    Shahrukh KhanShahrukh Khan quote #27
  48. 'I've collected a lot of balls for him and he loves playing with them. Aryan also loves dancing to my songs. We have pillow fights and love jumping on the bed. We quite demented when we are together.' - Shahrukh

    Shahrukh KhanShahrukh Khan quote #51
  49. I need a house that's full of love when I need to escape/the deadly places slingin drugs, in thug's mansion

    Tupac ShakurTupac Shakur quote #226
  50. Got a home on high Ain't nothing but a stranger in this world I'm nothing but a stranger in this world I got a home on high In another land So far away

    Van MorrisonVan Morrison quote #17
  51. [about his daughter] I'd rather she grew up here than grew up as an orphan,

    Woody AllenWoody Allen quote #82
  52. We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

    Samuel Langhorne ClemensSamuel Langhorne Clemens quote #85
  53. Has somebody been working in your backyard?

    Phil HendriePhil Hendrie quote #134
  54. This is a grassy ghetto, and no home.

    A.M. KleinA.M. Klein quote #3
  55. A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.

    George CarlinGeorge Carlin quote #124
  56. Mr Michener, as timeless as a stack of National Geographics, is the ultimate Summer Writer. Just as one goes back to the cottage in Maine, so one goes back to one's Michener.

    James MichenerJames Michener quote #56
  57. I want everybody really lost, and I want us all to be at home there.

    Bruce BaillieBruce Baillie quote #1
  58. One of television's great contributions is that it brought murder back into the home, where it belongs.

    Alfred HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock quote #7
  59. Cat, n. A soft, indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.

    Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce quote #21
  60. Familles, je vous hais! foyers clos; portes refermees; possessions jalouses du bonheur.

    Andre GideAndre Gide quote #1
  61. 'I have always drawn strength from being close to home.'

    Arthur AsheArthur Ashe quote #29
  62. No success in public life can compensate for failure in the home.

    Benjamin DisraeliBenjamin Disraeli quote #212
  63. Nothing now remains for us seven but to go back to Stable Hill, proclaim the truth, and take the adventure that Aslan sends us. (ch.9)

    C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis quote #157
  64. The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing - to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from - my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.

    C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis quote #179
  65. When she had done her work, she would go over to the chimney corner, and sit among the cinders.

    Charles PerraultCharles Perrault quote #5
  66. Well, I went back by rented Cadillac and company jet Like a newly orphaned refugee, retracing my steps All the way to Cassadaga to commune with the dead They said, 'You'd better look alive.'

    Conor OberstConor Oberst quote #66
  67. Everything must belong somewhere. I know that now, that's why I'm staying here.

    Conor OberstConor Oberst quote #75
  68. The corn that I planted, the fields that I cleared, The flocks that I raised, and the cabin I reared; The wife of my bosom - Farewell to ye all! In the land of the stranger I rise or I fall.

    Davy CrockettDavy Crockett quote #24
  69. Now if I lived in my land, which I do, if I lived in Iceland, if I lived in Greensland I'd still have Chinese children, but out of my ears my little grey baby hears.

    Devendra BanhartDevendra Banhart quote #9
  70. 'I like seeing experienced girls home.' 'But I'm not experienced!' 'You're not home yet!'

    Donald McGillDonald McGill quote #7
  71. The House Beautiful is, for me, the play lousy.

    Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker quote #7
  72. The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - and let the air out of their tires.

    Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker quote #35
  73. 'We call Jasmine's room 'The Harem,' a sexy place, about which Dan never complained, even though his own possessions, his laptop PC and briefcase, for example, looked crazy in the environment, invasive and overcomplex, like Stealth bombers in SmurfWorld.'

    Douglas CouplandDouglas Coupland quote #14
  74. This is where I came from, and I thank a merciful God that I am able to return.

    Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur quote #32
  75. In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.

    Emma GoldmanEmma Goldman quote #62
  76. My choice is the old world - my choice, my need, my life.

    Henry JamesHenry James quote #13
  77. 'I see the whole world open before me; the only place that remains sealed off is Poland, and suddenly I feel the atmosphere so close about me that at times it is difficult to breathe.'

    Ignacy DomeykoIgnacy Domeyko quote #2
  78. To make it in life, you and your wife need to be in the same business. That has been my problem all along. My wives didn't know what I was doing. I would come back home from the road to a stranger. That's no good.

    James BrownJames Brown quote #5
  79. Sir, if you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed.

    James BuchananJames Buchanan quote #7
  80. A man's house is his castle.

    James OtisJames Otis quote #5
  81. Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.

    James ThurberJames Thurber quote #32
  82. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

    Jane AustenJane Austen quote #26
  83. Ah! there is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

    Jane AustenJane Austen quote #44
  84. Ez soshubble ez a baskit er kittens.

    Joel Chandler HarrisJoel Chandler Harris quote #4
  85. He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

    Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe quote #111
  86. No hope. And the X-ray photographs under his arm Confirm the message. His wife stands timidly by. The opposite brick-built house looks lofty and calm, Its chimneys steady against the mackerel sky.

    John BetjemanJohn Betjeman quote #8
  87. And now good morrow to our waking souls, Which watch not one another out of fear; For love, all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room, an everywhere. Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone, Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown, Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.

    John DonneJohn Donne quote #2
  88. More than anything, I love being with my family. I'm like a total homebody, just hanging out with my kids. (2004)

    Johnny DeppJohnny Depp quote #74
  89. It's been very good to me, this country. It's been welcoming, and it's given me what I've always wanted - a really cool, simple life. (2003)

    Johnny DeppJohnny Depp quote #91
  90. [In an interview] 'The snail lives the way I like to live; he carries his own home with him.'

    Julio CortazarJulio Cortazar quote #5
  91. Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife.

    L. Frank BaumL. Frank Baum quote #18
  92. The Scarecrow listened carefully, and said, 'I cannot understand why you should wish to leave this beautiful country and go back to the dry, gray place you call Kansas.' 'That is because you have no brains' answered the girl. 'No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home.' The Scarecrow sighed. 'Of course I cannot understand it,' he said. 'If your heads were stuffed with straw, like mine, you would probably all live in the beautiful places, and then Kansas would have no people at all. It is fortunate for Kansas that you have brains.'

    L. Frank BaumL. Frank Baum quote #24