# Quotes about home

- Quotes: 84
- Authors: 65
- Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home
- JSON version (same data): https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.json

## Quotes

> When you come from Des Moines you either accept the fact without question and settle down with a girl called Bobbi and get a job in the Firestone factory and live there forever and ever or you spend your adolescence moaning at length about what a dump it is and how you can't wait to get out and then you settle down with a local girl named Bobbi and get a job in the Firestone factory and live there forever and ever.

[Bill Bryson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bill-bryson.md) · [The Lost Continent](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bill-bryson/the-lost-continent.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bill-bryson/the-lost-continent/when-you-come.md)

Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.

[Bill Bryson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bill-bryson.md) · [The Lost Continent](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bill-bryson/the-lost-continent.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bill-bryson/the-lost-continent/i-come-from.md)

Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> Here is our home, here is our fatherland.

[Virgil](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil.md) · [The Aeneid](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/here-is-our.md)

Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md), [homeland](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/homeland.md)

> Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.

[Francis Bacon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-bacon.md) · [The Essays](https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-bacon/the-essays.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-bacon/the-essays/houses-are-built.md)

Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> And when your learned men come here, we will say to them: The world is a globe—the farther you sail, the closer to home you are.

[Terry Pratchett](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett.md) · [Nation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/nation.md) · p. 284 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/nation/and-when-your.md)

Topics: [travel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/travel.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> Houses are really bodies. We connect ourselves with walls, roofs, and objects just as we hang on to our livers, skeletons, flesh and bloodstream. (p13)

[Leonora Carrington](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leonora-carrington.md) · [The Hearing Trumpet](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leonora-carrington/the-hearing-trumpet.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leonora-carrington/the-hearing-trumpet/houses-are-really.md)

Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md), [the body](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-body.md)

> Even today, I sometimes get really quite painfully homesick for Norwood. A sour smell that reminds me of the tanneries will bring it on, such as the smell from a basement down in the Italian part of the Village where some old Italian is making wine. That's one of the damnedest things I ever found out about human emotions and how treacherous they can be — the fact that you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it. Not to speak of the fact that you can hate a person with all your heart and soul and still long for that person.

[Joseph Mitchell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-mitchell.md) · [Joe Gould's Secret](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-mitchell/joe-goulds-secret.md) · p. 67 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-mitchell/joe-goulds-secret/even-today-i-sometimes.md)

Topics: [hatred](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hatred.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md)

> Old houses move in their sleep like the dreaming, remembering limbs of very old people. Boards whisper, steps cry out softly to the whispering remembrance of footfalls long gone to earth. Mantelpieces strain gently in the darkness beneath the ghosts of old Christmas stockings. Joists and beams and rafters hunch lightly like the brittle ribs of old women in their sleep: the heart recalling, the worn carpet slippers whispering down the halls again.

[Davis Grubb](https://www.leafyquotes.com/davis-grubb.md) · [The Night of the Hunter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/davis-grubb/the-night-of-the-hunter.md) · p. 144 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/davis-grubb/the-night-of-the-hunter/old-houses-move.md)

Topics: [memory](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory.md), [old age](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/old-age.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> "I do not have any home. So why should I be homesick?"

[Carson McCullers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carson-mccullers.md) · [The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carson-mccullers/the-heart-is-a-lonely-hunter.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carson-mccullers/the-heart-is-a-lonely-hunter/i-do-not.md)

Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery. But it does have to be furnished with things that mean something to you.

[James M. Cain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-m-cain.md) · [Mildred Pierce](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-m-cain/mildred-pierce.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-m-cain/mildred-pierce/a-home-is-not.md)

Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> Makoko is what the outsiders had originally called our settlement hundreds of years ago, due to its abundance of akoko leaves, and the name stuck for the community on the Lagos coast just across from the Third Mainland Bridge. To strangers, it’s a slum, a metallic and wooden eyesore built over a stinking bed of ever-mounting sewage, spreading out across the smoke-filled horizon. For the government, it’s the impediment between even larger coffers for them and prime waterfront real estate. But to us, who are from here, Makoko is simply home.

[Chioma Okereke](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chioma-okereke.md) · [Water Baby](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chioma-okereke/water-baby.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chioma-okereke/water-baby/makoko-is-what.md)

Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> It was a bookstore, and he felt at home in bookstores, and he hadn’t had that feeling much lately. He was going to enjoy it. He pushed his way back through the racks of greeting cards and cat calendars, back to where the actual books were, his glasses steaming up and his coat dripping on the thin carpet. It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.

[Lev Grossman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lev-grossman.md) · [The Magician's Land](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lev-grossman/the-magicians-land.md) · p. 1 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lev-grossman/the-magicians-land/it-was-a-bookstore.md)

Topics: [reading](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reading.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> Everybody has their own idiopathic reaction to their childhood home.

[Lev Grossman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lev-grossman.md) · [The Magicians](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lev-grossman/the-magicians.md) · p. 202 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lev-grossman/the-magicians/everybody-has-their.md)

Topics: [childhood](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/childhood.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> The world in which I work and live is a long way from home, but the early bearings I took as a child on the prairie, surrounded by working people and the communities they established, often in difficult circumstances, have been a steadying and reassuring presence. They are familiar markers and sentinels, useful and reliable even now, forty years after I left the land and the people that launched me.

[Tom Brokaw](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-brokaw.md) · [A Long Way from Home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-brokaw/a-long-way-from-home.md) · p. 233 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-brokaw/a-long-way-from-home/the-world-in-which.md)

Topics: [childhood](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/childhood.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> In 1962, I put my home state of South Dakota in a rearview mirror and drove away. I was uncertain of my final destinatin but determined to get well beyond the slow rhythms of life in the small towns and rural culture of the Great Plains. I thought that the influences of the people, the land, and the time during my first twenty-two years of life were part of the past. But gradually I came to know how much they meant to my future, and so I have returned often as part of a long pilgrimage of renewal.
>
> When I do return, my wardrobe and home address are New York, my job is high-profile, and my bank account is secure, but when I enter a South Dakota cafe or stop for gas, I am just someone who grew up around here, left a while back, and never really answers when he's asked, "When you gonna move back home?" I am caught in that place all too familiar to small-state natives who have moved on to a rewarding life in larger arenas: I don't want to move back, but in a way I never want to leave. I am nourished by every visit.

[Tom Brokaw](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-brokaw.md) · [A Long Way from Home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-brokaw/a-long-way-from-home.md) · p. 3 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-brokaw/a-long-way-from-home/in-1962-i-put.md)

Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md)

> Scared animals return home, regardless of whether home is safe or frightening.

[Bessel van der Kolk](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bessel-van-der-kolk.md) · [The Body Keeps the Score](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bessel-van-der-kolk/the-body-keeps-the-score.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bessel-van-der-kolk/the-body-keeps-the-score/scared-animals-return.md)

Topics: [fear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> She could be—he hoped would be—what he had always lacked: a center to the map of his life, that one, necessary fixed point from which he could navigate out into the world and by which he could always find his way back home again.

[Matt Hughes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matt-hughes.md) · [Fool Me Twice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matt-hughes/fool-me-twice.md) · p. 386 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matt-hughes/fool-me-twice/she-could-be-he.md)

Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> “I am not one to deny the broadening effects of distant lands,” offered Nofreg, “yet I have often said that the chief benefit of travel is to allow the returned sojourner a renewed appreciation of his native milieu.”

[Matt Hughes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matt-hughes.md) · [Fools Errant](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matt-hughes/fools-errant.md) · p. 76 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matt-hughes/fools-errant/i-am-not.md)

Topics: [travel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/travel.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> We all have our own island, the one we carry with us wherever we go.

[Tiphanie Yanique](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tiphanie-yanique.md) · [Land of Love and Drowning](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tiphanie-yanique/land-of-love-and-drowning.md) · p. 167 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tiphanie-yanique/land-of-love-and-drowning/we-all-have.md)

Topics: [identity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/identity.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> A place becomes a home when it sustains you, when it feeds you in body as well as spirit.

[Robin Wall Kimmerer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer.md) · [Braiding Sweetgrass](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer/braiding-sweetgrass.md) · p. 259 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer/braiding-sweetgrass/a-place-becomes.md)

Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> Being naturalized to place means to live as if this is the land that feeds you, as if these are the streams from which you drink, that build your body and fill your spirit. To become naturalized is to know that your ancestors lie in this ground. Here you will give your gifts and meet your responsibilities. To become naturalized is to live as if your children’s future matters, to take care of the land as if our lives and the lives of all our relatives depend on it. Because they do.

[Robin Wall Kimmerer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer.md) · [Braiding Sweetgrass](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer/braiding-sweetgrass.md) · p. 214 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer/braiding-sweetgrass/being-naturalized-to-place.md)

Topics: [nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/nature.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> When we call a place by name it is transformed from wilderness to homeland.

[Robin Wall Kimmerer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer.md) · [Braiding Sweetgrass](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer/braiding-sweetgrass.md) · p. 34 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer/braiding-sweetgrass/when-we-call.md)

Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> Where is your country? he said.
>
> I don't know, said John Grady. I don't know where it is. I don't know what happens to country.

[Cormac McCarthy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy.md) · [All the Pretty Horses](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy/all-the-pretty-horses.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy/all-the-pretty-horses/where-is-your.md)

Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md), [homeland](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/homeland.md)

> I still think that being forced to leave your home out of fear is one of the worst injustices a human being can face.

[Nadia Murad](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nadia-murad.md) · [The Last Girl](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nadia-murad/the-last-girl.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nadia-murad/the-last-girl/i-still-think.md)

Topics: [fear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md), [emigration](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emigration.md)

> Home is collecting stories, writing them down, and retelling them. Home is writing, and it grounds, sustains, and nourishes me. Home is the page. The one place I always, always come back to.

[Ayelet Tsabari](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayelet-tsabari.md) · [The Art of Leaving](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayelet-tsabari/the-art-of-leaving.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayelet-tsabari/the-art-of-leaving/home-is-collecting.md)

Topics: [writing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/writing.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> Home became the liminal space in between-between identities, between cultures, between languages- and I was content claiming that space as my own, pleased to be different.

[Ayelet Tsabari](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayelet-tsabari.md) · [The Art of Leaving](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayelet-tsabari/the-art-of-leaving.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayelet-tsabari/the-art-of-leaving/home-became-the.md)

Topics: [identity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/identity.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> Every time she kissed him, every time he opened his arms and she crawled into them, felt like a miracle. Coming to her made him feel perfectly welcomed, perfectly at home, as he had never in his life felt before. (p40)

[Celeste Ng](https://www.leafyquotes.com/celeste-ng.md) · [Everything I Never Told You](https://www.leafyquotes.com/celeste-ng/everything-i-never-told-you.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/celeste-ng/everything-i-never-told-you/every-time-she.md)

Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> The hero's home has its own magic. (p81)

[Maxine Hong Kingston](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maxine-hong-kingston.md) · [China Men](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maxine-hong-kingston/china-men.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maxine-hong-kingston/china-men/the-heros-home.md)

Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> That’s all that was left of the life I’d had here: a puzzle whose rules I would never understand, because they were not rules at all but a kind of cage meant to enclose me. I could stay, and search for what had been home, or I could go, now, before the walls shifted and the way out was shut.

[Tara Westover](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tara-westover.md) · [Educated](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tara-westover/educated.md) · p. 310 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tara-westover/educated/thats-all-that.md)

Topics: [freedom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> The house kept its own time, like the old-fashioned grandfather clock in the living room. People who happened by raised the weights, and as long as the weights were wound, the clock continued ticking away. But with people gone and the weights unattended, whole chunks of time were left to collect in deposits of faded life on the floor.

[Haruki Murakami](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami.md) · [A Wild Sheep Chase](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/a-wild-sheep-chase.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/a-wild-sheep-chase/the-house-kept.md)

Topics: [time](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my old friends under the apple trees.

[Anna Sewell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anna-sewell.md) · [Black Beauty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anna-sewell/black-beauty.md) · p. 247 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anna-sewell/black-beauty/my-troubles-are.md)

Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md), [nostalgia](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/nostalgia.md)

> In the deserts, however arid, I have never felt homesick for green fields and woods in spring, but now that I was in England I longed with an ache that was almost physical to be back in Arabia.

[Wilfred Thesiger](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wilfred-thesiger.md) · [Arabian Sands](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wilfred-thesiger/arabian-sands.md) · p. 187 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wilfred-thesiger/arabian-sands/in-the-deserts.md)

Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md)

> Home is a damaged word, bruisable as fruit, in the cruel glossaries of the language I choose to describe the long, fearful march of my childhood.

[Pat Conroy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy.md) · [The Pat Conroy Cookbook](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy/the-pat-conroy-cookbook.md) · p. 45 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy/the-pat-conroy-cookbook/home-is-a-damaged.md)

Topics: [childhood](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/childhood.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> Home was a dream she’d had yesterday. A place where children used to play. Among towers near the mountains, by a river, on curving sweeps of white or golden sand beside a palace at the edge of the sea.

[Guy Gavriel Kay](https://www.leafyquotes.com/guy-gavriel-kay.md) · [Tigana](https://www.leafyquotes.com/guy-gavriel-kay/tigana.md) · p. 225 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/guy-gavriel-kay/tigana/home-was-a-dream.md)

Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md)

> This at least seems to me the main problem for philosophers, and is in a manner the main problem of this book. How can we contrive to be at once astonished at the world and yet at home in it? How can this queer cosmic town, with its many-legged citizens, with its monstrous and ancient lamps, how can this world give us at once the fascination of a strange town and the comfort and honour of being our own town? To show that a faith or a philosophy is true from every standpoint would be too big an undertaking even for a much bigger book than this; it is necessary to follow one path of argument; and this is the path that I here propose to follow. I wish to set forth my faith as particularly answering this double spiritual need, the need for that mixture of the familiar and the unfamiliar which Christendom has rightly named romance. For the very word "romance" has in it the mystery and ancient meaning of Rome. Any one setting out to dispute anything ought always to begin by saying what he does not dispute. Beyond stating what he proposes to prove he should always state what he does not propose to prove. The thing I do not propose to prove, the thing I propose to take as common ground between myself and any average reader, is this desirability of an active and imaginative life, picturesque and full of a poetical curiosity, a life such as western man at any rate always seems to have desired. If a man says that extinction is better than existence or blank existence better than variety and adventure, then he is not one of the ordinary people to whom I am talking. If a man prefers nothing I can give him nothing. But nearly all people I have ever met in this western society in which I live would agree to the general proposition that we need this life of practical romance; the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure. We need so to view the world as to combine an idea of wonder and an idea of welcome. We need to be happy in this wonderland without once being merely comfortable.

[G. Chesterton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton.md) · [Orthodoxy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton/orthodoxy.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton/orthodoxy/this-at-least.md)

Topics: [curiosity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/curiosity.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> For years I have lived in the flats, rooms and garrets of this city, the drawers in the human filing-cabinets that stand in blank rows down the streets of Kensington and Notting Hill.  Yet when I talk of home I think of that damp green valley near Stroud where I was brought up.  The boys I went to school with have long since grown and fattened, got married and gone bald, and they would probably have to give me a very long look before they recognized me if I turned up there again.  But that is my home, and the image of it the day I left it is still more real to me than long years in this crowded capital city.

[Laurie Lee](https://www.leafyquotes.com/laurie-lee.md) · [I Can't Stay Long](https://www.leafyquotes.com/laurie-lee/i-cant-stay-long.md) · p. 43 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/laurie-lee/i-cant-stay-long/for-years-i-have.md)

Topics: [memory](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> The stooping figure of my mother, waist-deep in the grass and caught there like a piece of sheep’s wool, was the last I saw of my country home as I left it to discover the world. She stood old and bent at the top of the bank, silently watching me go, one gnarled red hand raised in farewell and blessing, not questioning why I went. At the bend of the road I looked back again and saw the gold light die behind her; then I turned the corner, passed the village school, and closed that part of my life forever.

[Laurie Lee](https://www.leafyquotes.com/laurie-lee.md) · [As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning](https://www.leafyquotes.com/laurie-lee/as-i-walked-out-one-midsummer-morning.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/laurie-lee/as-i-walked-out-one-midsummer-morning/the-stooping-figure.md)

Topics: [parents](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/parents.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> Her skills were so rare, so needed for the poorest of the poor, and even at times in the royal palace, that she felt valued. Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted?

[Abraham Verghese](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abraham-verghese.md) · [Cutting for Stone](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abraham-verghese/cutting-for-stone.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abraham-verghese/cutting-for-stone/her-skills-were.md)

Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> He wanted a home desperately. He was close to the point where he would take a mattress in Hell if the Devil would lend him a pillow.

[Tad Williams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams.md) · [Stone of Farewell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/stone-of-farewell.md) · p. 342 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/stone-of-farewell/he-wanted-a-home.md)

Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> “As with all dwellings,” she said, “of mortals and immortals both, it is the living that makes a house—not the doors, not the walls.”

[Tad Williams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams.md) · [Stone of Farewell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/stone-of-farewell.md) · p. 626 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/stone-of-farewell/as-with-all.md)

Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> “Never make your home in a place,” the old man had said, too lazy in the spring warmth to do more than wag a finger. “Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You’ll find what you need to furnish it—memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things.” Morgenes had grinned. “That way it will go with you wherever you journey. You’ll never lack for a home—unless you lose your head, of course...”

[Tad Williams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams.md) · [The Dragonbone Chair](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/the-dragonbone-chair.md) · p. 718 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/the-dragonbone-chair/never-make-your.md)

Topics: [memory](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory.md), [friendship](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> You can’t go home again, particularly if you never had one.

[Michael Bishop](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-bishop.md) · [No Enemy But Time](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-bishop/no-enemy-but-time.md) · p. 206 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-bishop/no-enemy-but-time/you-cant-go-home.md)

Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> It was no longer a home; children were never born and bred there; the fireside had become mercenary—a something to be bought and sold—a very courtesan: let who would die, or sit beside, or leave it, it was still the same—it missed nobody, cared for nobody, had equal warmth and smiles for all. God help the man whose heart ever changes with the world, as an old mansion when it becomes an inn!

[Charles Dickens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens.md) · [Barnaby Rudge](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/barnaby-rudge.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/barnaby-rudge/it-was-no-longer.md)

Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> ...this great grey pile of stone has been a house, never a home. It takes a woman's hand and heart, or a child's presence to make a home...

[Eleanor H. Porter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eleanor-h-porter.md) · [Pollyanna](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eleanor-h-porter/pollyanna.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eleanor-h-porter/pollyanna/this-great-grey.md)

Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> “Home is people,” she says to Asael, softly. Asael blinks. “Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind.”

[N. K. Jemisin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin.md) · [The Fifth Season](https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin/the-fifth-season.md) · p. 226 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin/the-fifth-season/home-is-people.md)

Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> “These accomplishments are what make a home comfortable.”
>
> Melody said, “I thought that a home was made comfortable by those who live in it and their regard for one another.”
>
> “This is true, Miss Melody, but if one presumes the affection which should be in all homes, then those homes which are most comfortable are also those which possess an understanding and appreciation for the arts.”

[Mary Robinette-Kowal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-robinette-kowal.md) · [Shades of Milk and Honey](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-robinette-kowal/shades-of-milk-and-honey.md) · p. 54 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-robinette-kowal/shades-of-milk-and-honey/these-accomplishments-are.md)

Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> I'd never looked at our house, or even our side of the street, and said, Oh! I wish we lived in the new development—those houses are so much newer, so much better! This is where I'd grown up. This was my home.

[Wendelin Van Draanen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendelin-van-draanen.md) · [Flipped](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendelin-van-draanen/flipped.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendelin-van-draanen/flipped/id-never-looked.md)

Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> 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. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go.”

[Sarah Dessen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sarah-dessen.md) · [What Happened to Goodbye](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sarah-dessen/what-happened-to-goodbye.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sarah-dessen/what-happened-to-goodbye/home-wasnt-a-set.md)

Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [family](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/family.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> Oh, rolling round the ocean,
>
> From a far and foreign land,
>
> May suit the common notion
>
> That a sailor's life is grand.But as for me, I'd sooner be
>
> A roaring here at home
>
> About the rolling, roaring life
>
> Of them that sails the foam.For the homeward-bounder's chorus,
>
> Which he roars across the foam,
>
> Is all about chucking a sailor's life,
>
> And settling down at home.Home, home, home,
>
> That's the song of them that roam,
>
> The song of the roaring, rolling sea
>
> Is all about rolling home.

[Norman Lindsay](https://www.leafyquotes.com/norman-lindsay.md) · [The Magic Pudding](https://www.leafyquotes.com/norman-lindsay/the-magic-pudding.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/norman-lindsay/the-magic-pudding/oh-rolling-round.md)

Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md), [the sea](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-sea.md)

> For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home.

[Orhan Pamuk](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orhan-pamuk.md) · [My Name Is Red](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orhan-pamuk/my-name-is-red.md) · p. 30 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orhan-pamuk/my-name-is-red/for-if-a-lovers.md)

Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> She said, "When you've seen all the new places you've got no more new places to see. And anyway, one new place is just like another new place. . . . I used to like meeting new people every trip - and I still do. But those things, meeting new people, seeing new places, they aren't everything. And while you go on in that sort of life you can't have any real friends or any real home. Because you're never there . . ."

[Nevil Shute](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nevil-shute.md) · [No Highway](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nevil-shute/no-highway.md) · p. 176 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nevil-shute/no-highway/she-said-when.md)

Topics: [friendship](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship.md), [travel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/travel.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> The big reason why folks leave a small town," Rant use to say, "is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.

[Chuck Palahniuk](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk.md) · [Rant](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/rant.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/rant/the-big-reason.md)

Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md)

> "The United States- how can you live in that country?" the man had asked. Agnes had shrugged. "A lot of my stuff is there," she'd said, and it was then that she first felt all the dark love and shame that came from the pure accident of home, the deep and arbitary place that happened to be yours.

[Lorrie Moore](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lorrie-moore.md) · [Birds of America](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lorrie-moore/birds-of-america.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lorrie-moore/birds-of-america/the-united-states.md)

Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md), [homeland](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/homeland.md)

> 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](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens.md) · [Martin Chuzzlewit](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/martin-chuzzlewit.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/martin-chuzzlewit/home-is-a-name.md)

Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> He might have been blushing. “I’m sorry. You live there. I don’t need to tell you how fabulous they are.”
>
> “Well, for me it is—was—just home. When one grows up in a place, no matter how exotic it may seem to others, it is still where all the usual banalities and indignities of childhood occurred. Home is always the norm. It is everywhere else that is marvellous.”

[Iain M. Banks](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks.md) · [Matter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/matter.md) · p. 369 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/matter/he-might-have.md)

Topics: [childhood](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/childhood.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> Certainly there are spots which inevitably attach to themselves an atmosphere of holiness and goodness; it might not then be too fanciful to say that some houses are born bad.

[Shirley Jackson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/shirley-jackson.md) · [The Haunting of Hill House](https://www.leafyquotes.com/shirley-jackson/the-haunting-of-hill-house.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/shirley-jackson/the-haunting-of-hill-house/certainly-there-are.md)

Topics: [evil](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/evil.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> Something gave way in my heart, something in me cracked when I saw our home fall.

[Ngugi wa Thiong'o](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ngugi-wa-thiongo.md) · [A Grain of Wheat](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ngugi-wa-thiongo/a-grain-of-wheat.md) · p. 135 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ngugi-wa-thiongo/a-grain-of-wheat/something-gave-way.md)

Topics: [loss](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loss.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> Many of us talked like that because we wanted to deceive ourselves. It lessens your shame. We talked of loyalty to the Movement and the love of our country. You know a time came when I did not care about Uhuru for the country anymore. I just wanted to come home.”

[Ngugi wa Thiong'o](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ngugi-wa-thiongo.md) · [A Grain of Wheat](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ngugi-wa-thiongo/a-grain-of-wheat.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ngugi-wa-thiongo/a-grain-of-wheat/many-of-us-talked.md)

Topics: [self-deception](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/self-deception-2.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md), [patriotism](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patriotism.md)

> Being sent out into the world isn't necessarily the same as leaving your home behind you.

[Arthur Golden](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-golden.md) · [Memoirs of a Geisha](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-golden/memoirs-of-a-geisha.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-golden/memoirs-of-a-geisha/being-sent-out.md)

Topics: [travel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/travel.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> In love of home, the love of country has its rise.

[Charles Dickens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens.md) · [The Old Curiosity Shop](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/the-old-curiosity-shop.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/the-old-curiosity-shop/in-love-of-home.md)

Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md), [patriotism](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patriotism.md)

> The secret and sacred word that binds him to the farm is 'belong'. Out in the veld by himself he can breathe the word aloud: I belong on the farm. What he really believes but does not utter, what he keeps to himself for fear that the spell will end, is a different form of the word: I belong to the farm. He tells no one because the word is misunderstood so easily, turned so easily to its inverse: The farm belongs to me. The farm will never belong to him, he will never be more than a visitor: he accepts that.

[J. M. Coetzee](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-m-coetzee.md) · [Boyhood](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-m-coetzee/boyhood.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-m-coetzee/boyhood/the-secret-and.md)

Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md), [belonging](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/belonging.md)

> Going home must be like going to render an account.

[Joseph Conrad](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad.md) · [Lord Jim](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad/lord-jim.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad/lord-jim/going-home-must.md)

Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> When we have once known Rome, and left her […], we are astonished by the discovery, by-and-by, that our heartstrings have mysteriously attached themselves to the Eternal City, and are drawing us thitherward again, as if it were more familiar, more ultimately our home, than even the spot where we were born.

[Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nathaniel-hawthorne.md) · [The Marble Faun](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-marble-faun.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-marble-faun/when-we-have.md)

Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md)

> [A]dventures befall the unadventurous as readily, if not as frequently, as the bold. Adventures are a logical and reliable result—and have been since at least the time of Odysseus—of the fatal act of leaving one's home, or trying to return to it again. All adventures happen in that damned and magical space, wherever it may be found or chanced upon, which least resembles one's home. As soon as you have crossed your doorstep or the county line, into that place where the structures, laws, and conventions of your upbringing no longer apply, where the support and approval (but also the disapproval and repression) of your family and neighbors are not to be had: then you have entered into adventure, a place of sorrow, marvels, and regret.

[Michael Chabon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-chabon.md) · [Gentlemen of the Road](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-chabon/gentlemen-of-the-road.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-chabon/gentlemen-of-the-road/a-dventures-befall-the.md)

Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md), [adventure](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/adventure.md)

> Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.

[Elizabeth Bowen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elizabeth-bowen.md) · [The Death of the Heart](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elizabeth-bowen/the-death-of-the-heart.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elizabeth-bowen/the-death-of-the-heart/only-in-a-house.md)

Topics: [loneliness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loneliness.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> It is a wary business, walking about a strange house you are to know well. Only cats and dogs with their more expressive bodies enact the tension we share with them at such times. The you inside you gathers up defensively: something is stealing upon you every moment; you will never be quite the same again. These new unsmiling lights, reflections and objects are to become your memories, riveted to you closer than friends or lovers, going with you, even, into the grave: worse, they may become dear and fasten like so many leeches on your heart.

[Elizabeth Bowen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elizabeth-bowen.md) · [The House in Paris](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elizabeth-bowen/the-house-in-paris.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elizabeth-bowen/the-house-in-paris/it-is-a-wary.md)

Topics: [memory](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> There are places we all come from — deep-rooty-common places — that make us who they are. And we disdain them or treat them lightly at our peril. We turn our backs on them at the risk of self-contempt. There is a sense in which we need to go home again — and can go home again. Not to recover home, no. But to sanctify memory.

[Robert Fulghum](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-fulghum.md) · [All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-fulghum/all-i-really-need-to-know-i-learned-in-kindergarten.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-fulghum/all-i-really-need-to-know-i-learned-in-kindergarten/there-are-places.md)

Topics: [memory](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> And as Paul said these things to himself, a wave of sadness washed over them as though they'd been written in sand. He was understanding now that no man could live without roots—roots in a patch of desert, a red clay field, a mountain slope, a rocky coast, a city street. In black loan, in mud or sand or rock or asphalt or carpet, every man had his roots down deep—in home.

[Kurt Vonnegut](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut.md) · [Player Piano](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/player-piano.md) · p. 227 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/player-piano/and-as-paul.md)

Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md)

> A man who is happy at home doesn’t lie awake nights worrying about the hereafter.

[Robert A. Heinlein](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein.md) · [Job: A Comedy of Justice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/job-a-comedy-of-justice.md) · p. 438 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/job-a-comedy-of-justice/a-man-who.md)

Topics: [happiness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/happiness.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> Home can be anywhere, for it is a part of one's self.

[Frank Herbert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert.md) · [Dune](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune/home-can-be-anywhere.md)

Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar", every "supreme leader", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
>
> The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
>
> Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
>
> The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
>
> It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

[Carl Sagan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan.md) · [Pale Blue Dot](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan/pale-blue-dot.md) · p. 8 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan/pale-blue-dot/consider-again-that.md)

Topics: [the universe](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-universe.md), [humility](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humility.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> But it is not your own Shire. Others dwelt here before hobbits were; and others will dwell here again when hobbits are no more. The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.

[J. R. R. Tolkien](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-r-r-tolkien.md) · [The Fellowship of the Ring](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-r-r-tolkien/the-fellowship-of-the-ring.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-r-r-tolkien/the-fellowship-of-the-ring/but-it-is-not.md)

Topics: [transience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?

[Neil Gaiman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman.md) · [Coraline](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/coraline.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/coraline/but-how-can.md)

Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> He sat down on a grassy bank and looked at the city that surrounded him, and thought, one day he would have to go home. And one day he would have to make a home to go back to. He wondered whether home was a thing that happened to a place after a while, or if it was something that you found in the end, if you simply walked and waited and willed it long enough.

[Neil Gaiman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman.md) · [American Gods](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/american-gods.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/american-gods/he-sat-down.md)

Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> If finding an apartment is like falling in love, buying one is like proposing on your first date and agreeing not to see each other until the wedding.

[David Sedaris](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-sedaris.md) · [Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-sedaris/dress-your-family-in-corduroy-and-denim.md) · p. 183 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-sedaris/dress-your-family-in-corduroy-and-denim/if-finding-an-apartment.md)

Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md), [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md)

> My problem was that I already loved an apartment. The one we had was perfect, and searching for another left me feeling faithless and sneaky, as if I were committing adultery. After a viewing, I'd stand in our living room, looking up at the high, beamed ceiling and trying to explain that the other two-bedroom had meant nothing to me.

[David Sedaris](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-sedaris.md) · [Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-sedaris/dress-your-family-in-corduroy-and-denim.md) · p. 180 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-sedaris/dress-your-family-in-corduroy-and-denim/my-problem-was.md)

Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> In other parts of the country people tried to stay together for the sake of the children. In New York they tried to work things out for the sake of the apartment.

[David Sedaris](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-sedaris.md) · [Me Talk Pretty One Day](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-sedaris/me-talk-pretty-one-day.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-sedaris/me-talk-pretty-one-day/in-other-parts.md)

Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md), [divorce](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/divorce.md)

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

[Samuel Butler](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-butler.md) · [The Way of All Flesh](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-butler/the-way-of-all-flesh.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-butler/the-way-of-all-flesh/an-empty-house.md)

Topics: [loneliness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loneliness.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md)

> A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship for the face of earth, for the labours men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar unmistakeable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge: a spot where the definiteness of early memories may be inwrought with affection, and kindly acquaintance with all neighbours, even to the dogs and donkeys, may spread not by sentimental effort and reflection, but as a sweet habbit of the blood. At five years old, mortals are not prepared to be citizens of the world, to be stimulated by abstract nouns, to soar above preference into impartiality; and that prejudice in favour of milk with which we blindly begin, is a type of the way body and soul must get nourished at least for a time. The best introduction to astronomy is to think of the nightly heavens as a little lot of stars belonging to one's own homestead.

[George Eliot](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot.md) · [Daniel Deronda](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot/daniel-deronda.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot/daniel-deronda/a-human-life.md)

Topics: [childhood](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/childhood.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md), [homeland](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/homeland.md)

> How often have Ι lain beneath rain on a strange roof thinking of home.

[William Faulkner](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-faulkner.md) · [As I Lay Dying](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-faulkner/as-i-lay-dying.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-faulkner/as-i-lay-dying/how-often-have.md)

Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md)

> The charms of a peaceful family life must be known to be enjoyed; their delights should be tasted in childhood. It is only in our father's home that we learn to love our own, and a woman whose mother did not educate her herself will not be willing to educate her own children.' Unfortunately, there is no such thing as home education in our large towns. Society is so general and so mixed there is no place left for retirement, and even in the home we live in public. We live in company till we have no family, and we scarcely know our own relations, we see them as strangers; and the simplicity of home life disappears together with the sweet familiarity which was its charm.
>
> In our great towns depravity begins at birth; in the smaller towns it begins with reason. Young women brought up in the country are soon taught to despise the happy simplicity of their lives, and hasten to Paris to share the corruption of ours.

[Jean Jacques Rousseau](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau.md) · [Emile; or On Education](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education/the-charms-of-a-peaceful.md)

Topics: [family](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/family.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md), [cities](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cities.md)

> Why then should we shut ourselves up within walls and gates as if we never meant to leave them? If pestilence, war, or rebellion drive me from one place, I go to another, and I find my hotel there before me. Why should I build a mansion for myself when the world is already at my disposal? Why should I be in such a hurry to live, to bring from afar delights which I can find on the spot? It is impossible to make a pleasant life for oneself when one is always at war with oneself. Thus Empedocles reproached the men of Agrigentum with heaping up pleasures as if they had but one day to live, and building as if they would live for ever.

[Jean Jacques Rousseau](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau.md) · [Emile; or On Education](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education/why-then-should.md)

Topics: [travel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/travel.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md), [pleasure](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/pleasure.md)

> How emphatically would I speak if it were not so hopeless to keep struggling in vain on behalf of a real reform. More depends on this than you realise. Would you restore all men to their primal duties, begin with the mothers; the results will surprise you. Every evil follows in the train of this first sin; the whole moral order is disturbed, nature is quenched in every breast, the home becomes gloomy, the spectacle of a young family no longer stirs the husband's love and the stranger's reverence. The mother whose children are out of sight wins scanty esteem; there is no home life, the ties of nature are not strengthened by those of habit; fathers, mothers, children, brothers, and sisters cease to exist. They are almost strangers; how should they love one another? Each thinks of himself first. When the home is a gloomy solitude pleasure will be sought elsewhere.
>
> The charms of home are the best antidote to vice. The noisy play of children, which we thought so trying, becomes a delight; mother and father rely more on each other and grow dearer to one another; the marriage tie is strengthened. In the cheerful home life the mother finds her sweetest duties and the father his pleasantest recreation. Thus the cure of this one evil would work a wide-spread reformation; nature would regain her rights. When women become good mothers, men will be good husbands and fathers.

[Jean Jacques Rousseau](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau.md) · [Emile; or On Education](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education/how-emphatically-would.md)

Topics: [family](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/family.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md), [mother](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/mother.md)

> Nothing contributes more to nourish elevation of sentiments in a people, than the large and free character of their habitations.

[John Stuart Mill](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-stuart-mill.md) · [Autobiography](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-stuart-mill/autobiography.md) · p. 55 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-stuart-mill/autobiography/nothing-contributes-more.md)

Topics: [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md), [architecture](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/architecture.md)