Home Quotes - page 2

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important it finds homes for us everywhere. (Jean Rhys)
Art is running away without ever leaving home. View quote
Twyla Tharp
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. View quote
Jean Kerr
The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad. View quote
James Madison
I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home. View quote
William Hazlitt
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. View quote
George Eliot
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. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves. View quote
Robert N. Bellah
However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home. View quote
Robert N. Bellah
The Fourth Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion. View quote
Potter Stewart
When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself. (Deng Xiaoping)
Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark. View quote
O. Henry
Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. View quote
Washington Irving
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. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a great refuge from home life. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
You see much more of your children once they leave home. View quote
Lucille Ball
Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose? View quote
Eliza Dushku
Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games. View quote
Babe Ruth
Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats. View quote
Woody Allen
Maria is the best reason to come home. (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
Art hurts. Art urges voyages- and it is easier to stay at home. View quote
Gwendolyn Brooks
Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized. View quote
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner. View quote
Thomas Browne
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home. View quote
William Cowper