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Homely Quotes (page 74)

C. S. Lewis quote: "The longest way round is the shortest way home.(Quoting..."
The longest way round is the shortest way home.(Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons) C. S. Lewis
Thomas Jefferson quote: "The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have..."
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. Thomas Jefferson
When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in a state of total liberty or anarchy. Leo Tolstoy
Graham Greene quote: "I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass."
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass. Graham Greene
L. Frank Baum quote: "There is no place like home."
There is no place like home. L. Frank Baum
There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters. Wallace Stegner
I have led her home, my love, myonly friend. There is none like her, none, And never yet so warmly ran myblood, And sweetly, on and on. Calming itself to the long-wished forend, Full to the banks, close on the prom-ised good. Alfred Lord Tennyson
Hey! Come merry dol! derry dol! My darling! Light goes the weather-wind and the feathered starling. Down along under the Hill, shining in the sunlight, Waiting on the doorstep for the cold starlight, There my pretty lady is, River-woman's daughter, Slender as the willow-wand, clearer than the water. Old Tom Bombadil water-lilies bringing Comes hopping home again. Can you hear him singing? Hey! Come merry dol! derry dol! and merry-o, Goldberry, Goldberry, merry yellow berry-o! Poor old... J. R. R. Tolkien
I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I am all these things, and I am nothing at all. This, my darling, is my life without you. I long for you to show me how to live again. Nicholas Sparks
The people who'd made the system thus were jealous, not of money and not of power but of story. If their employees came home at day's end with interesting stories to tell, it meant that something had gone wrong: a blackout, a strike, a spree killing. The Powers That Be would not suffer others to be in stories of their own unless they were fake stories that had been made up to motivate them. Neal Stephenson
There's a man who is my brother, I just don't know his name, But I know his home and family, Because I know we feel the same, And it hurts me when he's hungry, Or when his children cry, I too am a father, That little one is mine. It's about time we begin it, To turn the world around, It's about time we start to make it, The dream we've always known, It's about time we start to live it, The family of man, It's about time, It's about changes, And it's about time, It's about you and me together,... John Denver
My theory on literature is an author who does not indulge in trashiness-writes about people you could introduce into your own home...he did not care to read a book or go to a play about people he would not care to meet at his own dinner table. I believe we should live by certain standards and ideals... Booth Tarkington
The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us by the very nature of the world: but joy, pleasure, and merriment, He has scattered broadcast. We are never safe, but we have plenty of fun, and some ecstasy. It is not hard to see why. The security we crave would teach us to rest our hearts in this world and oppose an obstacles to our return to God: a few moments of happy love, a landscape, a symphony, a merry meeting with out friends, a bathe or a football match,... C. S. Lewis
Zhuangzi quote: "Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless..."
Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home! Zhuangzi
Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned traditions and expectations when they seemed to immutable. Azar Nafisi

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