Favorite Quotations ~ Home

Square watercolor in Daily Celebrations style — a warm doorway glow with soft garden colors suggesting a welcoming home Home is our sanctuary and our springboard — where stories are kept, hearts are mended, and laughter lingers in the halls. As Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. reminds us: “Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”💞

“It’s when you’re safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you’re having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.” ~ Thornton Wilder

“The sun at home warms better than the sun elsewhere.” ~ Albania Proverb

“Home is where one starts from.” ~ T.S. Eliot

“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” ~ Robert Frost

“You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.” ~ Anita Baker

“You see much more of your children once they leave home.” ~ Lucille Ball

“Where is home? Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart’s tears can dry at their own pace.” ~ Vernon Baker

“We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly.” ~ Mother Teresa

“The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.” ~ Confucius

“What children hear at home soon flies abroad.” ~ Thomas Fuller

“From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin… For me that house was a gateway to America.” ~ Pearl S. Buck

“Even a cat is a lion in her own lair.” ~ Indian Proverb

“The minute he spoke Spanish, I said, ‘I’m home.’” ~ Harriet Doerr

“I still close my eyes and go home — I can always draw from that.” ~ Dolly Parton

“Your home should be your sanctuary, your buffer against the world. It is torture if you’re living in chaos.” ~ Regina Leeds