Home Quotes - Page 5

• There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

  Smedley Butler

  Peace, War, Fighting

  "War Is A Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.

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• Home is where you hang your head.

  Groucho Marx

  Architecture, Sweet Home, Where Home Is

  Groucho Marx (2009). “Groucho And Me”, p.40, Da Capo Press

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• God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

  Meister Eckhart

  Funny, God, Humor

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• The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands could find to do beneath the skies. A true mother is one of the holiest secrets of home happiness. God sends many beautiful things to this world, many noble gifts; but no blessing is richer than that which He bestows in a mother who has learned love's lessons well, and has realized something of the meaning of her sacred calling.

  J.R. Miller

  Beautiful, Mother, Sweet

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• Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.

  Lydia M. Child

  Blessed, Heart, Angel

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 34, 1843.

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• There is no sanctuary of virtue like a home.

  Edward Everett

  Sanctuary, Virtue

  Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and speeches on various occasions”, p.259

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• 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 Warhol

  Party, Commercial Art, Long

  Andy Warhol (2015). “America”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  House, Matter, Absence

  "Gigi". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1945.

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• Going home must be like going to render an account.

  Joseph Conrad

  Literature, Accounts, Coming Home

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.207, McClure, Phillips & Company

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• I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain.

  Sarah Brightman

  Mother, House, Spain

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• There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.

  Kenny Guinn

  Profound, Permanent, Owning A Home

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• Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Christmas, Xmas

  "The Pickwick Papers". Book by Charles Dickens, 1836.

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• After a time I found that I could almost listen to the silence, which had a dimension all of its own. I started to attend to its strange and beautiful texture, which of course, it was impossible to express in words. I discovered that I felt at home and alive in the silence, which compelled me to enter my interior world and around there. Without the distraction of constant conversation, the words on the page began to speak directly to my inner self. They were no long expressing ideas that were simply interesting intellectually, but were talking directly to my own yearning and perplexity.

  Karen Armstrong

  Beautiful, Ideas, Self

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• Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

  Francis Bacon

  House, Looks, Architecture

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Building'

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• Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

  John Cheever

  People, World, Fifty

  "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow". Book by John Cheever, "The Bella Lingua", 1964.

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• Leave your home, O youth, and seek out alien shores. A wider range of life has been ordained for you.

  Petronius

  Youth, Aliens, Exploration

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• Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

  Alice Walker

  Literature

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• When the hornet hangs in the hollyhock,
  And the brown bee drones in the rose,
  And the west is a red-streaked four-o'clock,
  And summer is near its close,
  It's, Oh!, For the gate, and the locust lane;
  And dusk, and dew, and home again!

  Madison Cawein

  Summer, Rose, Dew

  Madison Julius Cawein, “In The Lane”

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• Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

  John F. Kennedy

  Children, Adversity, Israel

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• There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.

  Bill Bryson

  Phones, House, Beats

  1989 The Lost Continent, ch.2.

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• Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Cages, Life Is, Natural

  Getting Married (1911) preface "Hearth and Home"

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• There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Secret Love, Cottages

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• A house is not a home.

  Polly Adler

  House

  Title of book (1954)

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• The basic unit of any society is the home. When the home begins to break, the society is on the way to disintegration.

  Billy Graham

  Way, Break, Units

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Dec 01, 2016

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• The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

  Marguerite Duras

  Happiness, House, Trying

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.42, Grove Press

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