House And Home Quotes

• A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Wall, Home

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• Every house where love abides
  And friendship is a guest,
  Is surely home, and home sweet home
  For there the heart can rest.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Sweet, Home, Heart

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The works of Henry Van Dyke”

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Happiness, Being Happy, Peace

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• 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

  Hate, Home, Heart

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

  Jane Austen

  Family, Happiness, Stay Strong

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.381, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness.

  Vernon Baker

  Home, Heart, Laughing

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• Where thou art, that is home.

  Emily Dickinson

  Happiness, Soulmate, Art

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.996, Delphi Classics

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• Home, the spot of earth supremely blest,
  A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.

  Robert Montgomery

  Home, Earth, Spots

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

  Confucius

  Family, Strength, Peace

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• A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

  Sydney Smith

  Happiness, Home, House

  Sydney Smith, Lady Saba Holland Holland, Sarah Austin (1855). “Letters”, p.501

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

  Maya Angelou

  Travel, Home, Positivity

  Twitter post from Jul 13, 2015

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Wisdom, Educational

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• Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.

  Gary Snyder

  Nature, Home, Earth

  Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.7, Counterpoint Press

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• Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Strong, Home, Rehearsal

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes, Or, The Little Failings which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.2

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• You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.

  Maya Angelou

  Home, Truth Is, Cozy Home

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• Home is where you hang your head.

  Groucho Marx

  Home, Architecture, Sweet Home

  Groucho Marx (2009). “Groucho And Me”, p.40, Da Capo Press

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Home, Cages, Life Is

  Getting Married (1911) preface "Hearth and Home"

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• A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, House, Tasks

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.83, Harvard University Press

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• One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Sad, Lonely, Loneliness

  Letter to Theo van Gogh from Cuesmes, www.vangoghletters.org. June 22-24, 1880.

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• I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.

  George Washington

  Home, Agriculture, World

  The Alumni Register of the University of Pennsylvania, p. 473, 1925.

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• The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Owning A Home, House

  Gaston Bachelard (2014). “The Poetics of Space”, p.34, Penguin

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• Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Wisdom, Travel, Home

  "No shame in living with parents" by Tim Williams, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2009.

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

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Love, Marriage, Missing You

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “The Poet at the Breakfast Table”, p.33, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one.

  Charles Dickens

  Strong, Home, Names

  Charles Dickens, John Forster (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens ...: Martin Chugglewit”, p.160

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• 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

  Inspirational, Strong, Home

  "Martin Chuzzlewit". Book by Charles Dickens, Chapter 35, 1844.

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