Quotes about Home

He didn't turn to look at his home or family behind him (Escape; for thy soul, do not look behind thee, neither stop thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed. — Gen. 19:17b), but fled towards the middle of the plain.

A saint abroad and a devil at home.

I have no faith in that woman who talks of grace and glory abroad, and uses no soap and water at home. Let the buttons be on the shirts, let the children's socks be mended, let the roast mutton be done to a turn, let the house be as neat as a new pin, and the home be as happy as home can be.

The basic American promise that if you work hard, you could do well enough to raise a family, own a home, send your kids to college.

People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained

If Thy dear home be fuller, Lord, For that a little emptierMy house on earth, what rich rewardsThat guerdon were.

I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death.

We share one heart, one home, and one glorious destiny.

I'm at work by 8 or 8:30, and when I get home every night, my wife and I walk around the lawn. We have dinner together, and then we spend most of our evenings alone.

But playing your music as loud as you want and coming home drunk aren't real life. Real life, it turns out, is diapers and lawnmowers, decks that need painting, a wife that needs to be listened to, kids that need to be taught right from wrong, a checkbook, an oil change, a sunset behind a mountain, laughter at a kitchen table, too much wine, a chipped tooth, and a screaming child.

But it's better when you have somebody to go home to and talk about it with, somebody who is more in love with you than impressed by you.