Home Quotes - Page 8

These are all I have. I do not have the wide, bright beacon of some solid old lighthouse, guiding ships safely home, past the jaggedrocks. I only have these little glimmers that flicker and then go out.

He didn't think he belonged here, so she was making him face some uncomfortable facts. People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted.

Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.

My house feels like home when you're there.

What I love most about my home is who I share it with.

Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.

...I decided I'd changed my mind about home. Home was not Pensacola San Diego Guam or any of the other places we might have lived. In fact home wasn't any particular place at all. Home was my family. Even if they didn't get my jokes sometimes.

It was a family joke that Lydia's domestic tendencies were somehow misplaced when she was created.

I have made you some things, for when you get back. I understand now, all the baking you sent me, stale and crumbled in brown paper and rough twine. Now you’re away and I am here. So I will make and make until you get back to remind you, and myself: there are reasons to come home.

The alternative to rule is not freedom but the unconstitutional (and often unconscious) tyranny of the most selfish member.

He values home as the place where he can "be himself" in the sense of trampling on all the restraints which civilized humanity has found to be indispensable for tolerable social intercourse.

Because I think people must be the same everywhere. Only these people are in my bones.

Home is where they want you to stay longer

Let's accept it that we remember people only when we have some work and only our Mother‬ remembers us and calls us for no reason, just to know how we are doing!

She who has the excellence of home virtues, and can expend within the means of her husband, is a help in the domestic state

If the home is a body, the table is the heart, the beating center, the sustainer of life and health.

The stability of the structure is directly related to the security of the foundation

Children nurtured in kindness learn the value of understanding. Children taught to be self-sufficient, to respect others, to value education and to build life up rather than to tear it down will become adults capable of leading us to a brighter future. For (as Karl Menninger noted) what's done to children, they will do to society.

A home with a loving and loyal husband and wife is the supreme setting in which children can be reared in love and righteousness and in which the spiritual and physical needs of children can be met.

Maddie breathed in deep, inhaling the scent of breakfast and dish soap, clean laundry and wood floors, sunshine and a room filled with love. It smelled like home.