104 House And Home Quotes

Following is our list of house and home quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about what makes a house a home.

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Famous House And Home Quotes

A house is a home when it shelters the body and comforts the soul. — Phillip Moffitt

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

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

A house is a machine for living in. - Le Corbusier

A house is a machine for living in. — Le Corbusier

Our house is our corner of the world. — Gaston Bachelard

Home is where the heart is. — Pliny The Elder

The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace — Gaston Bachelard

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

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

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

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. — Luis Barragan

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

A house has the character of the man who lives in it. — Egyptian Proverbs

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person. — Helen Rowland

To me, a house is like a piece of art that you can live in. — Tom Bilyeu

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

Short House And Home Quotes

  • The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • A house without love ain't a home. — Merle Haggard
  • A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition. — Elsie De Wolfe
  • The home should be the treasure chest of living. — Le Corbusier
  • Home may be where the heart is but it's no place to spend Wednesday afternoon. — Walker Percy
  • My house is a doghouse. — Joe Gatto
  • What we speak becomes the house we live in. — Hafez
  • Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, There's no place like home. — John Howard Payne
  • The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in. — A. E. Housman

Top 10 House And Home Quotes

I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain. — Sarah Brightman

If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center. — Tupac Shakur

What you believe in the privacy of your thoughts and what you do in the privacy of your home or house of worship is your business. What you do in the public realm is our collective business. — Gad Saad

I was at home with my family and have a house full of puppies, and my cousin mentioned that with all the stories I have about my dogs, it might be a cool opportunity to make a memoir of sorts. — Joe Gatto

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 Hebrew language will go from the synagogue to the house of study, and from the house of study to the school, and from the school it will come into the home and... become a living language — Eliezer Ben-Yehuda

We started recording videos around our house, like, doing dumb stuff. Going four-wheeling or whatever. Then we found out about YouTube and fell in love with it and started uploading our videos. — Jake Paul

Home is where you hang your hangover. — James Crumley

Fragrance is my favorite thing. So much so that if I leave the house and I don’t put any on, I’ll turn around and go back home. — Meghan Markle

House And Home Image Quotes

House and home quote The ornament of a house is the friend who frequent it.
The ornament of a house is the friend who frequent it.

What Makes A House A Home Quotes

People who build their own home tend to be very courageous. These people are curious about life. They're thinking about what it means to live in a house, rather than just buying a commodity and making it work. — Tom Kundig

Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. — Rachael Ray

Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same. — Rachael Ray

If the members of a home are ill-temperered and quarrelsome, how quickly you feel it when you enter the house. You may not know just what is wrong, but you wish to make your visit short. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

Home And Family Quotes

If you want to change the world, go home and love your family. — Mother Teresa

When children are allowed to help make family decisions, they tend to be much more supportive and happier with family life. Also when allowed to help make rules, they will follow them much closer than if rules are forced on them. All these add up to a happier home for all. — Sayings

To separate from my culture (as from my family) I had to feel competent enough on the outside and secure enough inside to live life on my own. Yet in leaving home I did not lose touch with my origins because lo mexicano is in my system. I am a turtle, wherever I go I carry 'home' on my back. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Church is not an organization you join; it is a family where you belong, a home where you are loved and a hospital where you find healing. — Nicky Gumbel

The Rosary is the most beautiful and the most rich in graces of all prayers; it is the prayer that touches most the Heart of the Mother of God...and if you wish peace to reign in your homes, recite the family Rosary. — Pope Pius X

No other success can compensate for failure in the home. The poorest shack in which love prevails over a united family is of greater value to God and future humanity that any other riches. In such a home God can work miracles and will work miracles. — Sayings

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. — Mother Teresa

Women are like lionesses at the gate of the home. Whatever happens in that home and family happens because she cares about it and it matters to her. She guards that gate, and things matter to that family if they matter to her. — Julie B. Beck

Peace and war begin at home. If we truly want peace in the world, let us begin by loving one another in our own families. If we want to spread joy, we need for every family to have joy. — Mother Teresa

If homes are going to survive, it will be because husbands and fathers again place their families at the highest level on their system of priorities. — James Dobson

Home Life Quotes

The moment a woman comes home to herself, the moment she knows that she has become a person of influence, an artist of her life, a sculptor of her universe, a person with rights and responsibilities who is respected and recognized, the resurrection of the world begins. — Joan D. Chittister

The sea will grant each man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams of home. — Larry Ferguson

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. — Melody Beattie

Life is a combination of magic and pasta. — Federico Fellini

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

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. - Matsuo Basho

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. — Matsuo Basho

Having a good home, eating good food, wearing good clothes, are a means to living well; they are not the goals of our life. The quality of your life is decided by how peaceful and joyful you are. — Jaggi Vasudev

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That's what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin — Janis Joplin

Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity. — Mother Teresa

The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. — Matsuo Basho

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More House And Home Quotes

It's time for the bully pulpit of the White House to bring the gangstas in, put them around the table and let them know that if they don't come up with loan modifications and keep people in their homes that they've worked so hard for, we're gonna tax them out of business. — Maxine Waters

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. — Melody Beattie

A man is at the bar, drunk. I pick him up off the floor, and offer to take him home. On the way to my car, he falls down three times. When I get to his house, I help him out of the car, and on the way to the front door, he falls down four more times. I ring the bell and say, Here's your husband! The man's wife says, Where's his wheelchair? — Henny Youngman

Or perhaps you notice a congregation of ladybugs on a rose stalk. Don't invoke the old nursery saying and ask them to fly away home. Their house is not on fire. Your roses are, with aphids, which the ladybugs are feeding on - and you can bless yourself that they have come to your rescue. — Eleanor Perenyi

I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles. — Rachael Ray

Thirty spokes meet in the hub, but the empty space between them is the essence of the wheel. Pots are formed from clay, but the empty space within it is the essence of the pot. Walls with windows and doors form the house, but the empty space within it is the essence of the home. — Lao Tzu

I want my house open to sun and wind and the voice of the sea, like a Greek temple, and light, light, light everywhere! — Axel Munthe

You can look forward with hope, because one day there will be no more separation, no more scars, and no more suffering in My Fathers House. It's the home of your dreams! — Anne Graham Lotz

Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class…involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, ownership of motor vehicles, golf courses, small electric appliances, home and work place air-conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable... — Maurice Strong

The care of a house, the conduct of a home, the management of children, the instruction and government of servants, are as deserving of scientific treatment and scientific professors and lectureships as are the care of farms, the management of manure and crops, and the raising and care of stock. — Catharine Beecher

But 300 million Americans, their lending institutions, their government, their media, all believed that house prices were going to go up consistently. And that got billed into a $20 trillion residential home market. Lending was done based on it, and everybody did a lot of foolish things. — Warren Buffett

I say we must have a movement that brings those troops home and launch a crusade to transform our school buildings, we launch a crusade to see to it that every citizen has adequate and affordable housing, we launch a crusade to make universal health care. We need not soldiers anymore in the world. We've had enough of them in western history. — James Lawson

I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature. — Abraham Cowley

The artist I wanna be like is Michael Jackson. I'll get the house with the roller coaster and the rides and a disco, and I'll invite all my friends and just stay at home. — Lil' Kim

If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country. — James Buchanan

Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. — Vernon Baker

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. — Vincent Van Gogh

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

To take advantage of the last precious minutes, you've got to stay afield as late as the birds do, regardless of a houseful of guests, the sanguine promises you've made the missus, or the overdraft bank notice at home. To heck with everybody and everything when birds are feeding and fish are biting. Stay late and lie like a dog if necessary. — Havilah Babcock

A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff. — George Carlin

Kneel down to pray. Step up to serve. Reach out to rescue. Each is a vital page of God's blueprint to make a house a home and a home a heaven. — Thomas S. Monson

In a lifetime among cops since, I've noted that investigators who piece together the aftermaths of home invasion murders tend to keep their guns on all the time after that, even when off duty in their own house, and keep them by the bed when they go to sleep.They have learned from the helplessly-murdered dead — Massad Ayoob

To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home. — Hal Borland

For me a house or an apartment becomes a home when you add one set of four legs, a happy tail, and that indescribable measure of love that we call a dog. — Roger Caras

Our house was bombed, and the roof fell in. We were sitting under the stairs of the basement, and we were quite safe, but it brought home the realization. In two nights 400 people were killed in small town. — Roger Bannister

A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams. — Unknown

I come out before an audience and maybe my house burned down an hour ago, maybe my husband stayed out all night, but I stand there. ... I got them with me, right there in my hand and comfortable. That's my job, to make them comfortable, because if they wanted to be nervous they could have stayed home and added up their bills. — Fanny Brice

If I traveled all my life And I never get to stop and settle down Long as I have you by my side There's a roof above and good walls all around You're my castle, you're my cabin and my instant pleasure dome I need you in my house 'cause you're my home. — Billy Joel

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