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60 Inspiring Quotes about Home

List Of 60 Beautiful & Inspiring Quotes About Home:

#1 ”If Home is where the heart is then may your Home be blessed.” – John McLeod

#2 ”Home is a shelter from storms – all sorts of storms.” – William J. Bennett

#3 ”Like love, breakfast is best when made at home.” – Gina Barreca

#4 ”You don’t teach morals and ethics and empathy and kindness in the schools. You teach that at home, and children learn by example. ” – Judy Sheindlin

#5 ”Have nothing in your home that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” – William Morris

#6 ”Every dog is a lion at home.” – Henry George Bohn

#7 ”A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.” – Benjamin Franklin

#8 ”Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.” – Amelia Earhart

#9 ”The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school, and in the workplace.” – Silvia Cartwright

#10 ”Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.” – Ann Douglas

#11 “Home’s where you go when you run out of homes.” – John le Carré

#12 “Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.” – Pierce Brown

#13 “Home is the nicest word there is.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder

#14 ”Sunday, for me, is all about being home with the family with no plans.” – John Lasseter

#15 “Home is everything you can walk to.” – Jerry Spinelli

#16 ”I love you – I am at rest with you – I have come home.” – Dorothy L. Sayers

#17 “A home filled with nothing but yourself. It’s heavy, that lightness. It’s crushing, that emptiness.” – quote by Margaret Atwood

#18 ”If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.” – Malala Yousafzai

#19 “Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.” – James Baldwin

#20 ”Nature is not a place to visit, it is home.” – Gary Snyder

#21 “Well, sometimes home is a person.” – Beth Revis

#22 ”A good home must be made, not bought.” – Joyce Maynard

#23 “The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

#24 “If you know you’re going home, the journey is never too hard.” – Angela Wood

#25 “What is home? My favorite definition is “a safe place,” a place where one is free from attack, a place where one experiences secure relationships and affirmation.” – Gladys Hunt

#26 ”The colors and design of a home should be a reflection of the people who live inside.” – Amy Wax

#27 “Everybody has a home team: It’s the people you call when you get a flat tire or when something terrible happens.” – Shauna Niequist

#28 ”Home is where we should feel secure and comfortable.” – Catherine Pulsifer

#29 ”A man’s home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside, it is more often his nursery.” – Clare Boothe Luce

#30 “Home wasn’t a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together.” – Sarah Dessen

#31 “The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.” – Confucius

#32 “It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.” – Elizabeth Kostova

#33 “Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?” – quote by Stephanie Perkins

#34 ”A home should be a stockade, a refuge from the flaming arrows of anxiety, tension, and worry. ”  – Wilfred Peterson

#35 ”Home is the place where we are treated the best, but grumble the most.” – Unknown Author

#36 ”He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#37 ”Quality of life actually begins at home – it’s in your street, around your community.” – Charles Kennedy

#38 ”I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.” – Jean Cocteau

#39 “Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.” – Bill Cosby

#40 ”Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home.” – Sylvia Earle

#41 “If the home is a body, the table is the heart, the beating center, the sustainer of life and health.” 
– Shauna Niequist

#42 ”Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.” – Helen Rowland

#43 ”Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

#44 ”Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” – Twyla Tharp

#45 ”Home is not where you live but where they understand you. ” – Christian Morgenstern

#46 ”When memories fade, can one ever really return home?” – Floyd Skloot

#47 “Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach

#48 ”The light is what guides you home, the warmth is what keeps you there.” – Ellie Rodriguez

#49 ”You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it’s all right.” – Maya Angelou

#50 ”We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.” – Winston Churchill

#51 ”A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” – George A. Moore

#52 ”Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.” Billy Graham

#53 ”The thrill of coming home has never changed.” – Guy Pearce

#54 ”Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.” – Martin Luther

#55 ”Go big or go home. Because it’s true. What do you have to lose?” – Eliza Dushku

#56 ”I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.” – Sojourner Truth

#57 “I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.” – George Washington

#58 ”Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.” – Irina Shayk

#59 ”A house is made with walls and beams. A home is made with love and dreams.” – Author Unknown

#60 ”Home is where the heart is. ” – Pliny the Elder

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References

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christian-Morgenstern
https://www.pbs.org/empires/romans/empire/pliny_elder.html
https://www.history.com/topics/reformation/martin-luther-and-the-95-theses