137 Home Away From Home Quotes

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Famous Home Away From Home Quotes

Being away from home is nice but home is best. — Swedish Proverbs

Home is where the heart is. — Pliny The Elder

It's good to be a guest, but it's better to be at home. — Russian Proverbs

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

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Home is the nicest word there is. - Laura Ingalls Wilder

Home is the nicest word there is. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

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

My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul. — Michel de Montaigne

Home is a sanctuary for me and the place where I can relax. Everyone should have the right to a safe and secure home. — Corinne Bailey Rae

Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering. — Charles Dickens

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there. — Aleksandar Hemon

Home may be where the heart is but it's no place to spend Wednesday afternoon. — Walker Percy

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

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

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

There is no place more delightful than home. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Short Home Away From Home Quotes

  • Home is not where you live, but where they understand you. — Christian Morgenstern
  • For me, feeling at home is far more intoxicating than being in luxurious environments. — Tom Bilyeu
  • Home is any four walls that enclose the right person. — Helen Rowland
  • Wherever you have friends, that’s your country. Wherever you receive love, that’s your home. — Tibetan Proverbs
  • A house is a home when it shelters the body and comforts the soul. — Phillip Moffitt
  • Our house is our corner of the world. — Gaston Bachelard
  • Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. — Vernon Baker
  • My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. — Luis Barragan
  • Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, There's no place like home. — John Howard Payne
  • People usually are the happiest at home. — William Shakespeare

Home Away From Home Image Quotes

Home away from home quote Maturity is learning to walk away from people and situation that threaten your peace of mind, self r
Maturity is learning to walk away from people and situation that threaten your peace of mind, self respect, values, morals and self worth.

My Home Away From Home Quotes

At home we didnt talk about religion. So gradually the question faded away by itself and disappeared from the agenda. When I was nineteen my father died; my response to his death was atheistic. — Sergei Prokofiev

Lots are written about how 'she shows up at board meetings in the saree.' My God, I have never worn a saree to board meetings; people play it out in different ways. I think I have never shied away from the fact that I am an Indian, and I don't intend to, but you can be at home with both cultures. — Indra Nooyi

The first couple of years in the minors were tough for me. My numbers were there, but being away from home so young was tough. — Mike Trout

Home away from home quote Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass away.

What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not being out on the football field, being in a prison bed, in a prison bunk, writing letters home, you know. That wasn't my life. — Michael Vick

I had been a girl of whom certain things were expected, none of them too bad: a career as a nurse, for example; a sense of duty to my parents; obedience to the law and worship of convention. But in one year of being away from home, that girl had gone out of existence. — Jamaica Kincaid

I don't play games. I ran away from home because my Dad brought me an Xbox. — Adrien Broner

Home away from home quote One of the most important decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try
One of the most important decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.

If I did a TV show, it would have to be in North London because I'm a bit of a homebody, and my work takes me away from home enough. But yeah absolutely. Television has never been more exciting than it is now. — Simon Pegg

It's easier for me to get ready for a game on the road because you're expected to lose when you play away from home. That's a challenge to right there and that perks my competitive juices. — Michael Jordan

Perhaps being a parent has changed career more in that you ask yourself how long you'll be away from home. My eldest child is approaching school age so that becomes more important. They're less portable. — Cate Blanchett

I have sometimes played my best Davis Cup matches away from home when you stay in the moment a bit more. But it is tough when half the crowd are spitting on you. — Lleyton Hewitt

Home Far Away From Home Quotes

A house should not be built so close to another that a chicken from one can lay an egg in the neighbor's yard, nor so far away that a child cannot shout to the yard of his neighbor. — Julius Nyerere

May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home. — Trenton Lee Stewart

Daniel's face-- the way it had been bathed in violet light when he'd carried her home this morning-- appeared before her eyes. His gleaming golden hair. His tender, knowing eyes. The way one touch of his lips transported her far away from any darkness. For him, she'd suffer all of this, and more. — Lauren Kate

Home away from home quote A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life
A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.

I'm quite good at going away from home. I don't live with my parents or anything. But it is tough when you're so far away from everyone. — Rachel Hurd-Wood

I really thought I wanted to be a musical-comedy star, but I lived in Phoenix and didn't want to go all the way to New York and be that far away from home. So I thought maybe I'd be a rock 'n' roll singer or an opera singer. — Sandra Bernhard

I tried to get as far away from home as possible after I graduated from high school because I had a hard time being a kid. — Catherine Opie

Home away from home quote If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.
If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.

far away from my country I would be like those trees they chop down at Christmastime, those poor rootless pines that last a little while and then die. — Isabel Allende

When buying a new house ... Buy the house far enough away from school so your kids can't come home for lunch. — Phyllis Diller

I've had small depressions, days when I've woken up and felt sad, especially when I'm so far away from home. I've got my religion and that is my therapy, although I think it would be good for me to have someone I can talk to. But I have friends. I haven't got a therapist but maybe I should. — Beyonce Knowles

I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination. — Anna Deavere Smith

Home Away From Home Saying Quotes

Mom used to say I didn't run away from home my destiny just caught up with me at an early age. — Red Skelton

I came home in the afternoon to sleep, and there was this e-mail from Comedy Central saying they were interested in having me be part of this new show called 'Jump Cuts'! So I called them right away, and the producer started laughing and said, 'We sent that e-mail one minute ago - you're so fast!' — Lev Yilmaz

When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them. — Kevin Costner

Home away from home quote You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.
You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

Home to me is when someone comes up to me and says, "Can I get a selfie?" No. It's where your wife and your family are. It's the emotional place where you feel like you're not away from it. — Steve Martin

The thing with films is that you have to make something that will get people out of their houses, away from the TV set. You must touch people, say something. Otherwise, they'll stay at home. — Elia Kazan

And what are you doing on it, I would like to know? Running away from home, yesno? If you were a boy I'd say are you going to seek your fortune?" "Can't girls seek their fortune?" "I think they're supposed to seek a boy with a fortune. — Terry Pratchett

Home away from home quote The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.
The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.

hey. I just wanted to make sure you got home," I say. "Katniss, I live three houses away from you," he says. — Suzanne Collins

Away From Home Quotes

While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach. — Mary Church Terrell

Animal totems, like the tiger, come from the Other Side to protect us while we are away from Home. — Sylvia Browne

Adventure must start with running away from home. — William Bolitho

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. — Phyllis Diller

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. — E. W. Howe

To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world—impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define. The spectator is a prince who everywhere rejoices in his incognito. — Charles Baudelaire

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home. — Carl Rowan

So many people shy away from using color in their homes for fear of getting it wrong...But ignorance and fear are no reason to live in a bland box. — Jonathan Adler

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home. — Carl T. Rowan

When you become an artist you're working away from home for so much time. You really see what the use of time means to you once you're an artist and you travel so much. — Schoolboy Q

Home Sweet Home Quotes

Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them. — Jayne Anne Phillips

There's something that happens to you when you come back to your hometown. — Joseph Dougherty

God bless America, land that I love. Stand beside her, and guide her through the night with a light from above. — Irving Berlin

No matter what happens to me and my career in the future, Berlin is always going to be my hometown. — Alexandra Lara

There is a word sweeter than mother, home or heaven. That word is liberty. — Matilda Joslyn Gage

Your home should tell the story of who you are, and be a collection of what you love brought together under one roof. — Nate Berkus

You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right. — Maya Angelou

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

The force that makes the winter grow Its feathered hexagons of snow , and drives the bee to match at home Their calculated honeycomb, Is abacus and rose combined. An icy sweetness fills my mind , A sense that under thing and wing Lies, taut yet living , coiled, the spring . — Jacob Bronowski

A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Home Is Where The Heart Is Quotes

You cannot pray at home, like you can at church, where there is a great multitude; where exclamations are cried out to God as from one great heart, and where there is something more: the unions of minds, the accord of souls, the bond of charity, the prayers of priests. — Saint John Chrysostom

Home is where the heart is, home is where the fart is. Come let us fart in the home. There is no art in a fart. Still a fart may not be artless. Let us fart and artless fart in the home. — Ernest Hemingway

Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him. — Giuseppe Mazzini

The heart is always the place to go. Go home into your heart, where there is warmth, appreciation, gratitude and contentment — Ayya Khema

Home is where you hang your hangover. — James Crumley

A home is a place where a pot of fresh soup simmers gently on the hob, filling the kitchen with soft aromas . . . and filling your heart, and later your tummy, with joy. — Keith Floyd

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

I don't know what's wrong with that girl. — Reggie Evans

Home is Where the Heart Is, Good Friends Are Hard to Find and Impossible to Forget. True Love is Born from Hard Times. — John Green

What puts you on the road is your desire to enjoy. What brings you home is being in love — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Comfort Of Home Quotes

Perhaps love is like a resting place, a shelter from the storm. It exists to give you comfort, it is there to keep you warm, and in those times of trouble when you are most alone, the memory of love will bring you home. — John Denver

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

We take the materials around us and make them more valuable; that’s how we went from starving in a cave to producing a cornucopia of food that we can enjoy in comfortable homes. The thought leaders did not sufficiently consider these virtues of human beings. — Alex Epstein

You can't escape the taste of the food you had as a child. In times of stress, what do you dream about? Your mother's clam chowder. It's security, comfort. It brings you home. — Jacques Pepin

What is comfortable fashion? To be comfortable, that can't be in the vocabulary of fashion. If you want to be comfortable, stay home in your pajamas. — Donatella Versace

I'm kind of a dork. I don't have much game. I'm not particularly comfortable in bars or clubs. I much prefer being home playing Scrabble, having dinner with a couple friends, going to see a movie, or losing a whole weekend to Season 14 of Law and Order or The Simpsons. — Wentworth Miller

I think people who come into my home feel comfortable and welcome and loved. And the biggest thing in my living room (the fireplace) is in and of itself an expression of love. — Julia Roberts

If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the rigours of the desert - then it is easier to understand why greener pastures pall on us; why possessions exhaust us, and why Pascal's imaginary man found his comfortable lodgings a prison. — Bruce Chatwin

It was a hobbit hole, and that means comfort — J. R. R. Tolkien

I'm home and safe and filled with the comfort of being somewhere I've already been. The ruckus of homecoming is brutally enjoyable and everyone makes me feel like a champion. And all I had to do was stay away long enough. — Miguel Syjuco

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More Home Away From Home Quotes

You have your whole life ahead of you. Be smart. Study hard and be independent. I'm afraid the chances of your getting a dowry are slim. You must rely on yourself. No matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge. The world is changing. You must make your own life outside this home. — Adeline Yen Mah

Prayer cleanses from sin, drives away temptations, stamps out persecutions, comforts the fainthearted, gives new strength to the courageous, brings travellers safely home, calms the waves, confounds robbers, feeds the poor, overrules the rich, lifts up the fallen, supports those who are falling, sustains those who stand firm. — Tertullian

I advise everyone to find an island in this life. Find a place where this culture can't take energy away from you, sap your will and originality. Since anything physical can be mental, that island can be your home. Turn off the electromagnetic waves being forced upon you, the countless invisible forces coming at you all the time. — RZA

I had to run away from home in order to be a musician. Because I came from a family of... my father was a health inspector; my mother was a social worker. And I was pretty smart in school. So they expected me to be some kind of academic - schoolteacher, or doctor, lawyer - and they were very disappointed when I told them I wanted to be a musician. — Hugh Masekela

I don't feel any shame I won't apologize if there ain't nowhere you can go running away from pain when you've been victimized tales from another broken home. — Billie Joe Armstrong

Having a home away from the media glare is important to world-class athletes. — Mary Lou Retton

Lyon are the same away from home as they are at home, they have the same way of playing. — Carlo Ancelotti

I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity. — Franz Kafka

To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry. — Malcolm Turnbull

I love music so much and that kind of takes away from the fact that I am missing out on some things. I have always known that I wanted to be a singer and I knew that meant sacrificing some things for my dream. When I am home I hang out with my friends and go to dances, so I try and partake in some of the activities that I miss out on. — Lucy Hale

On the day I was signed, Mr. Finley, the owner of the Athletics at that time came up to me and said, 'When you were six you ran away from home, and when your parents found you at a nearby lake, you had already caught two catfish and were pulling in a third. Now repeat it back to me.' — Catfish Hunter

Being away from home gave me the chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye. I learned not to be ashamed of a real hunger for knowledge, something I had always tried to hide, and I came home glad to start in here again with a love for Europe that I am afraid will never leave me. — Jackie Kennedy

I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home. — Quincy Jones

A man's home is no longer his castle; it is no longer a place away from urgent tasks because the telephone breaches the walls with imperious demands. — Charles Hummel

When a child has a dream and a parent says, "It's not financially feasible; you can't make a living at that; don't do it," we say to the child, run away from home... You must follow your dream. You will never be joyful if you don't. Your dream may change, but you've got to stay after your dreams. You have to. — Esther Hicks

To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life. — Miguel Syjuco

Once you move away from home, it's never quite the same again. You expect everything to be just as you left it, and it never is. It's almost the first step into adulthood, realising you've got to make your own way. — Saoirse Ronan

Once in a while, people enter our lives and lessen the loneliness of being away from Home. — Yasmin Mogahed

Under cover of her silence he pressed her arm closely to his side; and, as they stood at the hotel door, he felt that they had escaped from their lives and duties, escaped from home and friends and run away together with wild and radiant hearts to a new adventure. — James Joyce

I feel like I'm working on an oil rig right now. I'm away from home a lot. — Hugh Laurie

Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life. — Martha Beck

It was like when we went to Mexico City [Olympics in 1968] it was sun and shining and bright. When we came home it was chaotic and storms everywhere. I think the most devastating thing was to make the adjustment as to why so many individuals that you grew up with in the sport thought it necessary to turn their backs and walk away from you. — John Carlos

Fairs are good places to eat, particularly for stand-up eaters--which is one of the kinds of eaters I am, although when I eat standing up away from home I sometimes miss the familiar cool breeze coming from the open refrigerator. — Calvin Trillin

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