Home Quotes Quotes

Today's Home Quotes Quote · April 17, 2026
"Home wasn't built in a day."
— Jane Sherwood Ace

All Home Quotes Quotes

"Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country."

— Margaret Thatcher

"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."

— Benjamin Franklin

"Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home."

— Bill Cosby

"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."

— Robert Frost

"The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home."

— Confucius

"Home is where the heart is."

— Pliny the Elder

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

— George Bernard Shaw

"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."

— Jane Austen

"Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey."

— Tad Williams

"When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood."

— Sam Ewing

"Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need."

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

— Meister Eckhart

"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

"I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment."

— Pope John Paul II

"Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is."

— Charles M. Schulz

"You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home."

— Og Mandino

"Charity begins at home, but should not end there."

— Thomas Fuller

"When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence."

— Stephen Covey

"If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace."

— Gaston Bachelard

"Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home."

— Kin Hubbard

"Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it."

— Evan Esar

"The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store."

— Kin Hubbard

"The home should be the treasure chest of living."

— Le Corbusier

"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

"In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic."

— Lyndon B. Johnson

"Home is any four walls that enclose the right person."

— Helen Rowland

"The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home."

— E. W. Howe

"If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?"

— Imran Khan

"Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments."

— Channing Pollock

"Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners."

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

"Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness."

— Anthea Turner

"A man's house is his castle."

— James Otis

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

— Kenny Guinn

"Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there."

— Phillips Brooks

"Any old place I can hang my hat is home sweet home to me."

— William Jerome

"A man's home is his wife's castle."

— Alexander Chase

"To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing."

— Jill Scott

"I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself."

— Sam Shepard

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

— John Cheever

"There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home."

— Rosalynn Carter

"Seek home for rest, for home is best."

— Thomas Tusser

"Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning."

— Amy Grant

"The home is the chief school of human virtues."

— William Ellery Channing

"I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests."

— Yo-Yo Ma

"A heart makes a good home for the friend."

— Yunus Emre

"Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back."

— Earl Wilson

"I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs."

— Frank Langella

"The prospect of going home is very appealing."

— David Ginola

"I'm lucky because I have a job I love. I really miss being away from home, being in my own bed, seeing my animals and siblings, having my moms cookies. I have a couple cats. I got a kitten about a year ago and now Im going on the road so I wont see him for a while. I feel bad."

— Michelle Branch

"I'm a real Suzy Homemaker."

— Suzy Bogguss

"The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose."

— Edward Coke

"The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not."

— Adolf Loos

"I'm going to buy some green bananas because by the time I get home they'll be ripe."

— Ryan Stiles

"When I go home, its an easy way to be grounded. You learn to realize what truly matters."

— Tony Stewart

"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

"Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory."

— Henry Anatole Grunwald

"Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action."

— Mother Teresa

"Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home."

— Mother Teresa

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend."

— Melody Beattie

"Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave."

— Martin Luther

"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

"The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned."

— Maya Angelou

"I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles."

— Zig Ziglar

"If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."

— Dale Carnegie

"At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far."

— Muhammad Ali

"Home is where you feel at home and are treated well."

— Dalai Lama

"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

"When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home."

— Winston Churchill

"If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough."

— Audrey Hepburn

"I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself."

— Maya Angelou

"Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion."

— Eminem

"It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas."

— Ronald Reagan

"Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means."

— Henny Youngman

"There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls."

— Marilyn Monroe

"I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything."

— Eminem

"An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart."

— Freya Stark

"A girl phoned me the other day and said... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home."

— Rodney Dangerfield

"The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence."

— Elbert Hubbard

"For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward."

— Erma Bombeck

"Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired."

— Mae West

"I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad."

— George Bernard Shaw

"Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you."

— Erma Bombeck

"I never worry about being driven to drink I just worry about being driven home."

— W. C. Fields

"The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."

— Voltaire

"So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home."

— Barack Obama

"Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home."

— Phyllis Diller

"A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman."

— Marlene Dietrich

"One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night."

— Margaret Mead

"The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone."

— Steve Jobs

"My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world."

— Billy Graham

"Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love."

— Billy Graham

"He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home."

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?"

— Eliza Dushku

"Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go."

— Erma Bombeck

"My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world."

— Bob Dylan

"The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots."

— Bob Dylan

"For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents."

— Barack Obama

"As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job."

— Roseanne Barr

"I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I'm home now. But leave a message and I'll call when I'm out."

— Steven Wright

"If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience."

— Woodrow Wilson

"Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats."

— Woody Allen

"Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less."

— Billy Sunday

"Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going."

— Phyllis Diller

"I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election."

— Margaret Thatcher

"My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that's where a lot of preachers' kids get off base sometimes. Because they don't see the same things at both places."

— Joel Osteen

"Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success."

— Dale Carnegie

"On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home."

— Joel Osteen

"The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship."

— Amelia Earhart

"Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index and its at a record high. Its going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work - its going to take a new president."

— Mitt Romney

"Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!"

— Marcus Garvey

"I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework."

— Lily Tomlin

"You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative."

— Mike Tyson

"I think a submarine is a very worthwhile weapon. I believe we can defend ourselves with submarines and all our troops back at home. This whole idea that we have to be in 130 countries and 900 bases... is an old-fashioned idea."

— Ron Paul

"For those who have come here illegally, they might have a transition time to allow them to set their affairs in order. And then go back home and get in line with everybody else. And if they get in line and they apply to become a citizen and get a green card, they will be treated like everybody else."

— Mitt Romney

"We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing."

— Jude Law

"Home is where one starts from."

— T. S. Eliot

"It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election."

— Margaret Thatcher

"My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home."

— Rodney Dangerfield

"Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you."

— Ogden Nash

"I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged."

— Stephen King

"A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing."

— W. Somerset Maugham

"I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene."

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"A home without books is a body without soul."

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Before deciding to retire, stay home for a week and watch the daytime TV shows."

— Bill Copeland

"The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue."

— Dolly Parton

"It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home."

— Rumi

"I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected."

— Billy Graham

"I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas."

— Hillary Clinton

"There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself."

— Drew Barrymore

"To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution."

— Samuel Johnson

"Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door."

— Charles Dickens

"Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home."

— Sigmund Freud

"Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration."

— Charles Dickens

"Now, I know there are many Americans who say, 'Get out of Afghanistan. Bring 'em all home.' And there are others who say, 'Put in hundreds of thousands of more."

— Hillary Clinton

"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow."

— Lin Yutang

"But, you know, you can't be a star at home."

— Jim Carrey

"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home."

— James Madison

"As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time, that doesn't work for me. I'd just rather sit at home and read, or go out to dinner with someone, or talk to someone I love, or talk to somebody that makes me laugh."

— Daniel Radcliffe

"I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs."

— Andy Warhol

"I love cats because I enjoy my home and little by little, they become its visible soul."

— Jean Cocteau

"What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?"

— Orison Swett Marden

"I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows."

— Andy Warhol

"We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home."

— Edward R. Murrow

"There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them."

— Anthony Edwards

"When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself."

— Layne Staley

"The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad."

— James Madison

"I've always looked for the perfect life to step into. I've taken all the paths to get where I wanted.But no matter where I go, I still come home me."

— Layne Staley

"We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves."

— Lyndon B. Johnson

"I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out."

— George Eliot

"If your neighbors think you're a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a redneck."

— Jeff Foxworthy

"Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security."

— Suze Orman

"If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home."

— Vance Havner

"I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding."

— Harvey Fierstein

"If you want to be an entrepreneur, it's not a job, it's a lifestyle. It defines you. Forget about vacations, about going home at 6 pm - last thing at night you'll send emails, first thing in the morning you'll read emails, and you'll wake up in the middle of the night. But it's hugely rewarding as you're fulfilling something for yourself."

— Niklas Zennstrom

"It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad."

— James Madison

"Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world."

— Bette Davis

"I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night."

— Marie Corelli

"To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt."

— Olivia Newton-John

"If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse."

— Thomas Fuller

"This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave."

— Elmer Davis

"Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games."

— Babe Ruth

"Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes."

— Todd Tiahrt

"Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading."

— Babe Ruth

"I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it."

— P. J. O'Rourke

"On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people and then I go home alone."

— Janis Joplin

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

— Babe Ruth

"All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others."

— Samuel Butler

"And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me."

— Michelle Obama

"Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home."

— Samuel Johnson

"When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home."

— Thornton Wilder

"And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now."

— Trent Reznor

"For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home."

— LeBron James

"Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad."

— James Madison

"One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time."

— Hermann Hesse

"A smile abroad is often a scowl at home."

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?"

— Bill Maher

"So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life."

— Henry Rollins

"Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it."

— Douglas MacArthur

"I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home."

— Robert Orben

"I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time."

— Stephen King

"Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog."

— Doug Larson

"If one more 'journalist' makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans' help, greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech."

— Marilyn Manson

"Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home."

— J. K. Rowling

"I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home."

— Quentin Tarantino

"American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted."

— William J. Clinton

"The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears."

— Phil McGraw

"After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases."

— Mickey Mantle

"I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon."

— Ida B. Wells

"I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves."

— Ellen DeGeneres

"I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying I'll get it right one day."

— Richard Pryor

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

— Alice Walker

"I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home."

— William Hazlitt

"There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw, in all its horrific detail, the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one's home."

— Harry Connick, Jr.

"The perfect date for me would be staying at home, making a big picnic in bed, eating Wotsits and cookies while watching cable TV."

— Kim Kardashian

"He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows."

— Jeremy Taylor

"We have two dogs, Mabel and Wolf, and three cats at home, Charlie, George and Chairman. We have two cats on our farm, Tom and Little Sister, two horses, and two mini horses, Hannah and Tricky. We also have two cows, Holy and Madonna. And those are only the animals we let sleep in our bed."

— Ellen DeGeneres

"Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?"

— Samuel Goldwyn

"Bad psychoanalysis would say I enjoyed pleasing people, working really hard and pleasing people, which is probably related to my father in some way. But I really liked working hard. When I worked at Disneyland, I'd do 12 hours straight and go home thrilled."

— Steve Martin

"When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away."

— Hugh Jackman

"I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that."

— Dolly Parton

"My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back."

— Denzel Washington

"When a criminal breaks into your home I'll let the liberals call the lawyer. I'm going to call Smith &amp Wesson."

— Rick Perry

"I figure that if the children are alive when I get home, I've done my job."

— Roseanne Barr

"Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly."

— Danica McKellar

"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings."

— Frank Lloyd Wright

"General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation."

— Chief Joseph

"The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much."

— Colin Chapman

"That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness, which never again ceases."

— Max Muller

"There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There's such a continuity between everything that I don't really care what form it shows up in."

— Alanis Morissette

"I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home."

— Dorothy L. Sayers

"England is my home. London is my home. New York feels like, if I have to spend a year living in an unfamiliar city, this is a pretty lovely one to spend a year in, but I will be going home at the end of it, certainly."

— Daniel Radcliffe

"Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home."

— James Joyce

"The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable."

— Havelock Ellis

"I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry."

— Josh Billings

"Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something."

— Will Cuppy

"Here's kind of my motto - if you're not happy at home, you're not happy anywhere else."

— Angie Harmon

"Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?"

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense."

— Amelia Earhart

"One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home."

— Pam Brown

"Yes, I've kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that's it. I don't go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot."

— Paris Hilton

"I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run."

— Babe Ruth

"By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time."

— Richard M. Nixon

"To be an ideal guest, stay at home."

— E. W. Howe

"Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing."

— Paul McCartney

"The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity."

— Jean Paul

"Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don't think I'm camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage."

— David Bowie

"Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body."

— Garry Moore

"Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home."

— Washington Irving

"Think about the comfortable feeling you have as you open your front door. That's but a hint of what we'll feel some day on arriving at the place our Father has lovingly and personally prepared for us in heaven. We will finally - and permanently - be 'at home' in a way that defies description."

— Charles Stanley

"I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids."

— Steven Spielberg

"Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents."

— Roger Moore

"It's not like I'm this glamour diva who hands everything over and I just sit on my throne at home."

— Heidi Klum

"To be honest, when I'm home, every day is a Friday for me. It doesn't really matter what day it is for me. A lot of my friends actually have time off during the week, and so it doesn't prohibit me from enjoying myself when I am home on a Monday or a Tuesday."

— Danica Patrick

"The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home."

— William Temple

"Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home."

— John Dewey

"A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it."

— George Edward Moore

"I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America."

— Lyndon B. Johnson

"Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well."

— Amos Bronson Alcott

"To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise."

— Augustus Hare

"The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home."

— Christopher Hitchens

"In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math."

— Danica McKellar

"I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting."

— Russell Banks

"How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home."

— William Cowper

"Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease."

— R. Buckminster Fuller

"At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other."

— Ann Landers

"Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house."

— Jean Kerr

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