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

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Author:Robert Frost

“When harmony, mutual consideration and trust pass out of the home, hell enters in.”

Home Family Hell Harmony Consideration Mutual

Author:David O. McKay

“A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.”

Should Children Home Family Building Secure Atmosphere

Author:Mel Gibson

“If the members of a home are ill-temperered and quarrelsome, how quickly you feel it when you enter the house. You may not know just what is wrong, but you wish to make your visit short.”

Ifs Knows Feels May Home House Wish Family Members Ill

Author:Laura Ingalls Wilder

“there is a spirit in every home, a sort of composite spirit composed of the thoughts and feelings of the members of the family as a composite photograph is formed of the features of different individuals.”

Different Feelings Home Spirit Individual Family Members Photograph Features Thoughts And Feelings Composites

Book:Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks

Source: Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks

“we all carry the Houses of our Youth inside, and our Parents, too, grown small enough to fit within our Hearts.”

Heart Enough Home House Parent Family Youth Fit

Book:Fanny

Source: Fanny

“Today, what most people live in, or with, is the less-than-nuclear family. Working fathers are absent from home during most of the day, the children are schooled outside it, and practically all women who work for money must go outside to earn their living.”

People Children Home Today Father Family Nuclear Absent Schooled Nuclear Families

Author:Elizabeth Janeway

“Peace, comfort, quiet, happiness, I have found away from home. Only your own family, those nearest and dearest, can hurt you.”

Home Found Hurt Family Comfort Quiet Away From Home

Author:Mary Boykin Chesnut

“Though it is fairly easy to describe what constitutes a bad home, there is no simple definition of a good one. Conformity with the traditional pattern certainly is no guarantee of the happiest results.”

Home Easy Simple Results Family Patterns Definitions Traditional Guarantees Conformity

Book:Women's Two Roles: Home and Work

Source: Women's Two Roles: Home and Work

“Does everyone turn into a truculent thirteen-year-old when they go home, or is it just me?”

Years Doe Home Turns Family Thirteen Thirteen Year Olds

Book:Does my Bum Look Big in This?

Source: Does my Bum Look Big in This?

“To be polite to everybody except the people they love most is a nervous affectation that afflicts many families ... when they come home, they take off their smiles and soft words, and sit about, spiritually in their underwear. This isn't pretty.”

People Home Family Nervous Manners Coming Home Polite Underwear Family Man

Author:Margaret Fishback

“Over the years since I left home, I have kept thinking about the people I grew up with and about our way of life. I realize how much the bond that held us had to do with food.”

People Thinking Way Years Home Left Realizing Family Food Grew Grew Up

Book:The Taste of Country Cooking: 30th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Taste of Country Cooking: 30th Anniversary Edition

“Freedom, like charity, begins at home.”

Home Freedom Family Charity Charity Begins At Home

Author:Anne Roe

“In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity.”

Persons Home House Family Comfort Essentials Atmosphere Contentment Tranquillity Home Life

Author:Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

“In nothing was slavery so savage and relentless as in its attempted destruction of the family instincts of the Negro race in America. Individuals, not families; shelters, not homes; herding, not marriages, were the cardinal sins in that system of horrors.”

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Author:Fannie Barrier Williams

“A good home owes it, as an expression of thankfulness for its own happiness, to try and make up something of the lack that is in other homes.”

Trying Home Happiness Family Expression Thankfulness

Book:Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household

Source: Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household

“Every home has its influences, for good or evil, upon humanity at large.”

Home Humanity Evil Family Influence

Book:The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated

Source: The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated