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Quotes about Home


Reparation for our rights at home, and security against the like future violations.

William Pitt, Earl of Chatham

"O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o' Dee;" The western wind was wild and dank wi' foam And all alone went she.

Charles Kingsley

O star-eyed Science, hast thou wander'd there, To waft us home the message of despair?

Thomas Campbell

Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom Nor forced him wander, but confine him home.

John Cleveland

A secret at home is like rocks under tide.

Dinah Maria Mulock (used pseudonym Mrs. Craik)

Security is the priceless product of freedom. Only the strong can be secure, and only in freedom can men produce those material resources which can secure them from want at home and against aggression from abroad.

B. E. Hutchinson

We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, someone with a wizard's power to melt stone to sunlight, who can bring us happiness in spite of trials, who can face our dragons in the night, who can transform us into the soul we choose to be. Just yesterday I found that magical Someone is the face we see in the mirror: It's us and our homemade masks. -Richard Bach.

Richard Bach

Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.

Alexander Pope

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act i. Sc. 1.

William Shakespeare

Who may, in the ambush of my name, strike home. -Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 3.

William Shakespeare

Ay, now am I in Arden: the more fool I. When I was at home I was in a better place; but travellers must be content. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 4.

William Shakespeare

She comes majestic with her swelling sails, The gallant Ship: along her watery way, Homeward she drives before the favouring gales; Now flirting at their length the streamers play, And now they ripple with the ruffling breeze.

Robert Southey

Where is home? Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart's tears can dry at their own pace.

Vernon Baker

The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. -Thomas More.

Thomas More

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.

Anne Baxter

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning "Good morning" at total strangers.

Maya Angelou

A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.

Source Unknown

What the intellectual craves above all else is to be taken seriously, to be treated as a decisive force in shaping history. He is far more at home in a society that weighs his every word and keeps close watch on his attitudes then in a society that cares not what he says or does. He would rather be persecuted than ignored.

Eric Hoffer

I have seen men march to the wars, and then I have watched their homeward tread, And they brought back bodies of living men, But their eyes were fold and dead. So, Buddy no matter what else the fame, No matter what else the prize, I want you to come back thru The Flame With the boy-look still in your eyes!

Edmund Vance Cooke

The soul of man is larger than the sky, Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark Of the unfathomed centre.

Hartley Coleridge

'Twas Game Six of the Series when out of the sky, Flew Sergio's parachute, a Met banner held high. His goal was to spur our home team to success, Burst Beantown's balloon claiming Sox were the best.

Phyllis Orlikoff Flug

We can't win at home. We can't win on the road. As general manager, I just can't figure out where else to play.

Pat Williams

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

Oliver Goldsmith

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

Hank Aaron

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