Heartwarming Collection of Inspirational Quotes About Home

"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 isn't a place, it's a feeling."

- Cecelia Ahern

"Ah! There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."

- Jane Austen

"There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home."

- Rosalynn Carter

"Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

"The ache for home lives in all of us."

- Maya Angelou

"And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you — I am at rest with you — I have come home."

- Dorothy L. Sayers

"Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do … but how much love we put in that action."

- Mother Teresa

"Home is where the heart is."

- Pliny the Elder

"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."

- Jane Austen

"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

"You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it’s all right."

- Maya Angelou

"Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action."

- Mother Teresa

"The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."

- Robert Frost

"I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself."

- Maya Angelou

"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Every happy home has a foundation of love and a framework of support."

- Wes Fesler

"To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution."

- Samuel Johnson

"Home is a shelter from storms — all sorts of storms."

- William J. Bennett

"No matter who you are or where you are, instinct tells you to go home."

- Laura Marney

"Home is any four walls that enclose the right person."

- Helen Rowland

"Home is the nicest word there is."

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

"Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners."

- Charles Henry Parkhurst

"Seek home for rest, for home is best."

- Thomas Tusser

"Peace — that was the other name for home."

- Kathleen Norris

"The home should be the treasure chest of living."

- Le Corbusier

"Where thou art — that — is home."

- Emily Dickinson

"If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home."

- Malala Yousafzai

"The home is the chief school of human virtues."

- William Ellery Channing

"Maybe that’s the best part of going away for a vacation — coming home again."

- Madeleine L’Engle

"It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant to his own imagination as he can."

- G. K. Chesterton

"‘I’ve had a splendid time,’ she concluded happily, ‘and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life. But the best of it all was the coming home.’"

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

"Better to have a messy home and happy children than a perfect yard and unhappy children."

- Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg

"Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark."

- Pierce Brown

"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it."

- George A. Moore

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

- Charles Dickens

"Home — the blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel’s wings."

- Lydia M. Child

"Homeward bound / I wish I was / Homeward bound / Home where my thought’s escapin’ / Home where my music’s playin’ / Home where my love lies waitin’ / Silently for me"

- Paul Simon

"Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home."

- John Howard Payne

"You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow."

- Henning Mankell

"One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time."

- Hermann Hesse

"Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home."

- Henry Drummond

"There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again."

- Rumi

"Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely."

- Louisa May Alcott

"My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world."

- Billy Graham

"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."

- William Morris

"Home is where you feel at home and are treated well."

- Dalai Lama

"The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship."

- Amelia Earhart

"One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night."

- Margaret Mead

"You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home."

- Og Mandino

"When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence."

- Stephen Covey

"If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace."

- Gaston Bachelard

"Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security."

- Suze Orman

"Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need."

- Sarah Bon Breathnach

"The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home."

- David Suzuki

"I am going home. Nothing can stop me now."

- Trent Reznor

"Where thou art, that is home."

- Emily Dickinson

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

- Charles Dickens

"Home is wherever you leave everything you love and never question that it will be there when you return."

- Leo Christopher

"Home was not just a cabin in a deep woods that overlooked a placid cove. Home was a state of mind, the peace that came from being who you were and living an honest life."

- Kristin Hannah

"The home is the one place where we can be ourselves and shut out negativity from the world outside. It's so important to have a place where we can go and feel protected from it all; it's something we all deserve."

- Pia Edberg

"Home is where we should feel secure and comfortable."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"I want my home to be that kind of place—a place of sustenance, a place of invitation, a place of welcome."

- Mary DeMuth

"For our home to be a refuge, it needs to be a place where love, compassion and patience prevail."

- Allan Lokos

"He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"I believe that all of our lives we're looking for home and if we're really lucky, we find it in someone's loving arms. I think that's what life is: coming home."

- Anita Krizzan

"Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home."

- John Howard Payne

"A home is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body."

- Margaret Fuller

"Home is a shelter from storms ll sorts of storms."

- William J. Bennett

"For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home."

- Stephanie Perkins

"Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there anymore."

- Robin Hobb

"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

"When you wrapped your arms around me and held me, I knew that no matter what happened with my life, you were my home."

- Colleen Hoover

"Home sweet home. This is the place to find happiness. If one doesn't find it here, one doesn't find it anywhere."

- M. K. Soni

"A home should be a stockade, a refuge from the flaming arrows of anxiety, tension and worry."

- Wilfred Peterson

"'Home' is any four walls that enclose the right person."

- Helen Rowland

"When you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself."

- Oprah Winfrey

"The light is what guides you home; the warmth is what keeps you there."

- Ellie Rodriguez

"Home is where there's one to love."

- Charles Swain

"Where Thou art—that—is Home."

- Emily Dickinson

"Home is where you feel loved, appreciated and safe."

- Tracey Taylor

"A home without books is a body without soul."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"The longest road out is the shortest road home."

- Irish Proverb

"One never reaches home. But where paths that have an affinity for each other intersect, the whole world looks like home, for a time."

- Hermann Hesse

"Home is not where you live but where they understand you."

- Christian Morgenstern

"A good home must be made, not bought. In the end, it's not track lighting or a sunroom that brings light into a kitchen."

- Joyce Maynard

"Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home."

- Edith Sitwell

"There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never known beyond its hallowed limits."

- Robert Southey

"If light is in your heart, you will find your way home."

- Rumi

"When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood."

- Sam Ewing

"A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home."

- Chinese Proverb

"Home is the place where we are treated the best but grumble the most."

- Billy Sunday

"If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own backyard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with."

- Dorothy

"Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave and grow old wanting to get back to."

- John Ed Pearce

"Three keys unlock the door to a gracious atmosphere at home: Respect, influence, and forgiveness."

- Michael Cannon Loehrer

"I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself."

- Sam Shepard

"There is no place more delightful than one’s own fireside."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Peace, like charity, begins at home."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country."

- Margaret Thatcher

"The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home."

- E. W. Howe

"Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory."

- Henry Grunwald

"I have a real genius for staying at home."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Home wasn’t built in a day."

- Jane Sherwood Ace

"Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there."

- Aleksandar Hemon

"Let your home be your mast and not your anchor."

- Khalil Gibran

"They say that ‘home is where the heart is.’ I think it is where the house is, and the adjacent buildings."

- Emily Dickinson

"A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless."

- May Sarton

"I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment."

- Pope John Paul II

"I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table."

- Elie Wiesel

"When I go home, its an easy way to be grounded. You learn to realize what truly matters."

- Tony Stewart

"A man's house is his castle."

- James Otis

"Home is where one starts from."

- T. S. Eliot

"Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time."

- John Cheever

"Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind."

- N.K. Jemisin

"A heart makes a good home for the friend."

- Yunus Emre

"Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home."

- Matsuo Bashō

"Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home."

- Rachael Ray

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

- William Faulkner

"The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose."

- Edward Coke

"Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is."

- Charles M. Schulz

"When we root-root-root for the home team, we’re rooting for our home as much as the team."

- Richard Roeper

"The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home."

- Confucius

"I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great."

- Isaac Watts

"A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?"

- Mark Twain

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

- Henrik Ibsen

"Charity begins at home, but should not end there."

- Thomas Fuller

"Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best."

- Kin Hubbard

"If home is where the heart is, then may your home be blessed."

- John McLeod

"To be an ideal guest, stay at home."

- E. W. Howe

"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home."

- James A. Michener

"The sun at home warms better than the sun elsewhere."

- Albanian Proverb

"Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, a dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest."

- Robert Montgomery

"Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home."

- Phyllis Diller

"When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself."

- Layne Staley

"If you know you're going home, the journey is never too hard."

- Angela Wood

"Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation—coming home again."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend."

- Wallace Stegner

"At the end of the day, it isn't where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I'm going and never have been before."

- Warsan Shire

"How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home."

- William C. Faulkner

"'Tis ever common that men are merriest when they are from home."

- William Shakespeare

"God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk."

- Meister Eckhart

"Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door."

- Charles Dickens

"There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights."

- Smedley Butler

"A girl phoned me the other day and said... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home."

- Rodney Dangerfield

"The great advantage of a hotel is that it’s a refuge from home life."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Home is where my habits have a habitat."

- Fiona Apple

"Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it."

- Evan Esar

"Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen."

- Alfred Hitchcock

"Home's where you go when you run out of homes."

- John le Carré

"Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark."

"Home is where love resides, memories are created, friends and family belong together and laughter never ends."

"A house is made of walls and beams; a home is made with love and dreams."

"A house is made of bricks and beams. A home is made of hopes and dreams."

- Unknown

"Home is not a place, it's a feeling."

- Unknown

"May your home always be too small to hold all of your friends."

"Home is where the Wi-Fi connects automatically."