Quotes by home

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O. Henry
American short story writer, pen name of William S. Porter 1862-1910

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You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
William Shakespeare
English playwright and poet 1564-1616

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Fear no more the heat o the sun, nor the furious winter's rages. Thou thy worldly task hast done, home art gone and taken thy wages.
Jean Cocteau
French writer 1889-1963

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I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
Helen Rowland
American journalist 1875-1950

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''Home'' is any four walls that enclose the right person.
Barbara Kingsolver
American novelist, essayist and poet 1955-

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At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.
Robert Montgomery
English poet and minister 1807-1855

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Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.
Amelia Earhart
American aviation pioneer and author 1897-1939

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The effect of having other interests beyond those domestic works well. The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.
George Moore
Irish writer 1852-1933

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A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
Vladimir Nabokov
American writer and poet 1899-1977

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A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche
German poet and philosopher 1844-1900

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
Ben Johnston

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Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconsistent and deceitful as her mother. she chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her home when in appearance she seems firmly settled.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
American writer and poet 1809-1894

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Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
August Strindberg
Swedish writer 1849-1912

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Family... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
Audie Murphy
American soldier, actor and songwriter 1925-1971

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I Knew why I felt at home. The spirit of freedom was hovering over that play yard as it did all over France at that time. A country was free again.
Robert Orben
American editor, writer, humorist 1927-

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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.