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A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. - Sydney Smith

A happy home is the single spot of rest which a man has upon this earth for the cultivation of his noblest sensibilities. - Frederick William Robertson

A home with a loving and loyal husband and wife is the supreme setting in which children can be reared in love and righteousness and in which teh spiritual and physical needs of children can be met. - David A. Bednar

A home is like a piece of music where all essentials are in harmony. Every mind has its hidden light, and each member of the family brings its radiance to the breakfast table, where the keynote of the day is sounded. It may be a low growl on the bass notes, a shrill falsetto, or a sweet clear sound, but from it the strain of the day largely takes its tone. - Mrs. F. M. Carpenter

A house is made with walls and beams. A home is made with love and dreams. - Unknown

A man's house is his castle. - Edward Coke

All exiles carry a map within them that points the way homeward. - Jacqueline Carey

An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed. - Samuel Butler

At home, the very walls lend you strength. - Sergei Lukyanenko

Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need. - Sarah Ban Breathnach

Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home. Home sweet home. - Unknown

Every home is the first university that determines the destiny of children. - Unknown

For almost everyone the notion of home is usually a positive one. It is the known as opposed to the unknown; it is certainty as opposed to uncertainty, security rather than insecurity, the knowledge that in the final analysis someone else, our parents, will make the necessary decisions and will protect us from harm. It is the familiar and predictable. Better that than the unknown, the unpredictable, with a stranger imposing strange ways. It is also the primordial sense of the need for security, of being held, of belonging. - Stephen Shaw

From a misgoverned and disordered home, many go forth to make other homes unhappy and miserable. - Walter Matthews

Good food and a warm kitchen are what make a house a home. - Rachael Ray

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. - Johann von Goethe

Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments. - Channing Pollock

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration. - Charles Dickens

Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to. - John Ed Pearce

Home is an invention on which no one has yet improve. - Ann Douglas

Home is like a bee-hive; there may be much toil, there must be much order, but there will always be a honeyed sweetness. - Ebenezer Coloham Brewer

Home is like a garden, and the elder is the master landscaper, knowledgeable of the seasons, times for planting and pruning, and ritual significance and medicinal properties of flowers, herbs, fruits and leaves. - Graham D. Rowles

Home is one of the sweetest words in the English language. At home we find food, clothing, and shelter. There, infancy is cradled, childhood nurtured, youth guarded, manhood inspired, age supported. There sickness is healed, and sorrow soothed. There weariness rests, and oppression finds an asylum. Home is a magnet which ever attracts the heart, whether we sail on distant seas or wander in foreign climes. In the darkest day, the loneliest hour, the memory of home is like the dew upon Hermon, that falls in the night-season. Home is an oasis abounding in sparkling fountains, carolling birds, umbrageous trees, and spicy odours. What is home, when worthy of the name, but a relic of Paradise – a type of heaven! - A. G. Stacy

Home is the first and most important school of character. It is there that every human being receives his best moral training, or his worst; for it is there that he imbibes those principles of conduct which endure through manhood, and cease only with life. - Samuel Smiles

Home is the place that goes where you go, yet it welcomes you upon your return. Like a dog overjoyed at the door. We've missed you is what you hear, no matter how long you've been gone. - Michael J. Rosen

Home is the place where you are most thoroughly yourself, with no pretences. - Victoria Moran

Home is the sanctuary where the healing is. - Unknown

Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart’s tears can dry at their own pace. - Vernon Baker

Home is where the heart is; where the heart can laugh without shyness; where the heart’s tears can dry at their own pace. - Unknown

Home is where we should feel secure and comfortable. - Catherine Pulsifer

Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst. - Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Home is wherever you're happy to be. - Commander Chakotay

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt. - Unknown

Home never appears to us so beautiful as when we are remote from it. - Christian Nestell Bovee

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

Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, a dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. - Robert Montgomery

If you know you're going home, the journey is never too hard. - Angela Wood

It's a funny thing about coming home – looks the same, smells the same, feels the same. You realize what's changed is you. - Benjamin Button

Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house. - Bruce Barton

No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there – well or poorly. - Joseph Brodsky

Parents! do not send your sons and daughters from home. Do not destroy the love for your fireside, and the objects about home. Let their eyes rest upon the same furniture, and the same prospects; let their slumbers be, where they slept when very young. There are valuable associations there. Keep them under the shadow of your wings. They were given to you; who can watch over them like you? - Wilson Conworth

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.- Maya Angelou

The deprivation of the security of home is the worst of the mass tragedies. - Unknown

The first sense of self as a success or failure develops within the home, regardless of what the home is like. Some homes are like prisons; some are like sanctuaries. Some are like playgrounds or circuses or hospitals or hotels or schools. - Muriel James

The home is the chief school of human virtues. - William Ellery Channing.

The home is the most ordinary of institutions. It is the temple of our shelter and rest, the habituation of our hopes and our fears. It is the resort of love, the refuge of virtue, the altar of prayer. It is the school of cleanliness, the preceptor of obedience, the sanctuary of modesty. It is at once the stronghold of the ordinary and the shrine of joy. - Leo J. Muir

The house of everyone is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose. - Sir Edward Coke

The light is what guides you home, the warmth is what keeps you there. - Ellie Rodriguez

The one good thing about going away is coming home. - Keiko O’Brien

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. - Confucius

The youth without a home is like a mariner without a compass, in a boundless sea: he has no point from which or to which to direct his course, but is driven, here and there, upon a tumultuous ocean, unknowing and unknown. - Wilson Conworth

There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there. The other is to walk round the whole world till we come back to the same place. - Edward St. Aubyn

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. - Jane Austen

There’s nothing half so pleasant as coming home again. - Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

This is the true nature of home – it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division. - Unknown

We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there. - Pascal Mercier

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us. - Winston Churchill

When you’re safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you’re having an adventure, you wish you were safe at home - Thornton Wilder

Wherever I fly from my own dear nest, I always come back, for home is the best. - Maud Lindsay

You go back home and everything you wished was different is still the same and everything you wished was the same is different. - Cormac McCarthy