Home / Topics / Home Quotes

Home Quotes

Browse 16539 quotes about Home.

Home Quotes

“My advice to whoever asks me how to make a home is to not have anything, just a few shelves for books, some pillows to sit on. And then, to take a stand against the ephemeral, against passing trends... and to return to lasting values.”

Book Home Values Asks Advice Return Passing Passings Ask Me Lasting Trends Shelves Pillow Ephemeral

Author:Gae Aulenti

“The rum fiend would like to go and hang up a skeleton in your beautiful house so that, when you opened the front door to go in, you would see it in the hall; and, when you sat at your table you would see it hanging from the wall; and, when you opened your bedroom you would find it stretched upon your pillow; and, waking at night, you would feel its cold hand passing over your face and pinching at your heart. There is no home so beautiful but it may be devastated by the awful curse.”

“Worship demands the far distances of God; it protests against the little, the near, the material. It must love but it must look up. It cannot live without the note of spirituality and universality, if not mystery. The ascension, the passing of Christ within the veil, answers this need. So does a full-robed Christianity add to definiteness of knowledge the outreach of imagination and home.”

Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“our sons and daughters are only passing through. ... If we are lucky, they always will consider our home their harbor, but they are headed out to the open sea, almost from the first.”

Ifs Firsts Children Home Sea Son Lucky Daughter Passing Passings Harbors Passing Through Son And Daughter

Book:The Rest of Us: Dispatches from the Mother Ship

Source: The Rest of Us: Dispatches from the Mother Ship