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Home Quotes (page 72)

When I have come to you, at last (as I have always done), I have come topeace and happiness. I come home, now, like a tired traveller, and findsuch a blessed sense of rest! Charles Dickens
John Knowles quote: "I saw on the pad not an operator's number from my home town,..."
I saw on the pad not an operator's number from my home town, but one which seemed to interrupt the beating of my heart. John Knowles
Yes, I’ll be glad.” And she said suddenly, “There are some times, Joseph, when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow.” He looked quickly at her in astonishment at her statement of his own thought. “How did you think that, dear?” “I don’t know. Why?” “Because I was thinking it at that moment — and there are times when the people and the hills and the earth, all, everything except the stars, are one, and the love of them all is strong like a sadness.” “Not the stars, then?” “No,... John Steinbeck
You thought you knew what food was, you thought it was elemental. You forgot how much restaurant there was in restaurant food and how much home was in homemade. Jonathan Franzen
Because the evil one is ever at work, our vigilance cannot be relaxed--not even for a moment. A small and seemingly innocent invitation can turn into a tall temptation which can lead to tragic transgression. Night and day, at home or away, we must shun sin and hold fast that which is good. Russell M. Nelson
Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home. Stephen King
Elizabeth Bishop quote: "Should we have stayed home and thought of here?"
Should we have stayed home and thought of here? Elizabeth Bishop
Love, the great, the strong, the conquering god --- Love that subdues a world, and rides roughshod over principle, virtue, tradition, over home, kindred, and religion -- what cares he for the easy conquest of the pathetic being, who appeals to his sympathy? Love means equality -- the same height of heroism or of sin. When Love stoops to pity, he has ceased to soar in the boundless space, that rarefied atmosphere wherein man feels himself made at last truly in the image of God. Baroness Orczy
Lou looked at Davis there praying like God was in his heart and home, while his family remained behind in rags and fear and would have starved except for the kindness of Louisa Cardinal. She could only shake her head. David Baldacci
You theoretically have so much more time at home, but you fill it with the minutiae that you somehow managed to avoid when you were working. Emily Giffin
Erma Bombeck quote: "You show me a boy who brings a snake home to his mother and..."
You show me a boy who brings a snake home to his mother and I'll show you an orphan. Erma Bombeck
Alfred Hitchcock quote: "T.V. has brought murder back into the home where it belongs."
T.V. has brought murder back into the home where it belongs. Alfred Hitchcock
The twenty-four-hour diner, the station waiting room and the motel are sanctuaries for those who have, for noble reasons, failed to find a home in the ordinary world, sanctuaries for those whom Baudelaire might have dignified with the honorific 'poets'. Alain de Botton
When we came home from the movie Hallie cried. Not because of the people who gave up life and limb only to lose Spain to Franco, and not for the ones who came back and were harassed for the rest of their lives for being Reds. The tragedy for Hallie was that there might never be a cause worth risking everything for in our lifetime. Barbara Kingsolver
The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you’ve got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see? You’ve got to stop. You haven’t really been anywhere until you’ve got back home. Terry Prachett

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