Quotes
Quotes about Home
Themistocles being asked whether he would rather be Achilles or Homer, said, "Which would you rather be,--a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?"
If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.
Send them home as merry as crickets.
Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
The grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.
This places what we must vaguely term slang into the right perspective - the home-made language of the ruled, not the rulers, the acted upon, the used, the used up. It is demonic poetry emerging in flashes of ironic insight.
The establishment rejected him. And it was because heâd had the guts to fight and get gassed, while the rest of the bastards stayed at home.
Nostalgia means homesickness
Why did goddesses select models of ugliness to build a home? Foils to their beauty?
Get the bloody job finished, get air fare, get home.
I know one thing. Always do your homework, sunshine.
Home. Another of those damned emotive words
The devil has his best chance among the ignorant, the deprived, the homeless, the jobless
I had no desire to go home again, but I could import temporary fractions of my home to wherever I was
Home. I felt the promise of the prick of tears at the word, sentimental, noble, nostalgic, yearning
He is happiest, be he king or peasant who finds peace in his home.
The man who claims to be the boss in his own home will lie about other things as well -Amish saying
Take time to come home to yourself everyday.
Take time to come home to yourself everyday.
A child on the farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse and thinks of home.
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
There is a word sweeter than mother, home or heavenâThat word is liberty.
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose, - words in their best order; poetry, - the best words in their best order.
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
