The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant—and let the air out of the tires.
—Dorothy Parker
Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.
—Rainer Maria Rilke
The rooms of his apartment were full with the dog home again, convalescing. He was satisfied to know, even when she was out of sight, that somewhere in the apartment she was sleeping or eating or sitting watchfully. It was family, he guessed, more or less. Did most people want a house of living things at night, to know that in the dark around them other warm bodies slept?
Such a house could even be the whole world.
—Lydia Millet
Home isn’t a place, it’s a feeling.
—Cecelia Ahern in Love, Rosie
The charm which Henry [Thoreau] uses for bird and frog and mink is patience. They will not come to him, or show him aright, until he becomes a log among logs, sitting still for hours in the same place; then they come around him and to him, and show themselves at home.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Sometimes the people closest to you betray you, and your home isn’t a place you can be happy anymore. It’s hard, but it’s true.
—P.C. Cast in Hunted
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
—Winston Churchill
Home, as far as I'm concerned, is the place you have to leave. And then, if you're like me, spend the rest of your life mourning.
—Paulette Bates Alden
Love begins by taking care of the closest ones—the ones at home.
—Mother Teresa
Traveling is all very well and good as long as you know there is a place or person you can call home.
—Jodi Picoult in Mercy
Where are we really going? Always home!
—Novalis
The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.
—Joseph Franklin Rutherford
People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.
—Gillian Flynn in Gone Girl
To explain why we become attached to our birthplaces, we pretend that we are trees and speak of "roots." Look under your feet. You will not find gnarled growths sprouting through the soles. Roots, I sometimes think, are a conservative myth, designed to keep us in our places.
—Salman Rushdie
A certain businessman, renowned for his ruthlessness, once made a vow in Mark Twain's presence. "Before I die," he declared, "I mean to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. I will climb Mount Sinai and read the Ten Commandments aloud at the top." "I have a better idea," Twain replied. "You could stay home in Boston and keep them.
—Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes