I wish I was,

Homeward bound,

Home where my thought’s escaping,

Home where my music’s playing,

Home where my love lies waiting

Silently for me.

Paul Simon “Homeward Bound”, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme, 1966

If I had time and dared to enter into digressions, I would write a chapter about that first pint of porter drunk upon English ground. Ah, how good it is! It is worth-while to leave home for a year, just to enjoy that one draught.

William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

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

Maya Angelou

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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

Matsuo Basho, (Japanese poet 1644 -1694)

There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home, there’s no place like home…

Dorothy

What is more agreeable than one’s home?

Cicero

At every party there are two kinds of people — those who want to go home and those who don’t. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Ann Landers  (American columnist, 1918-2002)

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a ‘wandering to find home,” why should we not look forward to the arrival?

C.S. Lewis (British theologian and novelist, 1898-1963)

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

Jane Austen Emma

Home is not where you live, but where they understand you”

Christian Morgenstern (German author and poet, 1871-1914)

Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Where we love is home,

Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Homesick in Heaven

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Charles Dickens

Home is the place where, when you have to go there,

They have to take you in.

Robert Frost, The Death of the Hired Man

Every house where love abides

And friendship is a guest,

Is surely home, and home sweet home

For there the heart can rest.

Henry Van Dyke, (American author, educator, and clergyman, 1852-1933)

One’s home is like a delicious piece of pie you order in a restaurant on a country road one cozy evening – the best piece of pie you have ever eaten in your life – and can never find again.  After you leave home, you may find yourself feeling homesick, even if you have a new home that has nicer wallpaper and a more efficient dishwasher than the home in which you grew up.

Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events

I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.

George Washington

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

Mother Teresa

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

Confucius

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Winston Churchill

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

Elvis Presley

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

Margaret Thatcher

Home is where one starts from.

T. S. Eliot

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

Seneca

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

James Dobson

Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.

E. Stanley Jones (Methodist missionary to India, 1884-1973)

Swimming is normal for me. I’m relaxed. I’m comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It’s my home.

Michael Phelps

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

Margaret Mead

I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.

Sojourner Truth

A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.

Aristophanes

Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.

Herman Melville

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,

Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.

John Howard Payne

A good home must be made, not bought.

Joyce Maynard, Domestic Affairs

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

Thomas More

“Home” is any four walls that enclose the right person.

Helen Rowland (American author 1875 – 1950)

The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes.

Harold B. Lee (Writer and LDS clergyman,1899 – 1973)

We need not power or splendor,

Wide hall or lofty dome;

The good, the true, the tender,

These form the wealth of home.

Sarah J. Hale (American author, 1788 – 1879)

My home is not a place, it is people.

Lois McMaster Bujold, Barrayar

Longest way round is the shortest way home.

James Joyce

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.

Pearl S. Buck

Home is where the heart is.

Pliny the Elder

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Martin Luther

“No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there-well or poorly.”

Joseph Brodsky (Russian-born American Poet and Writer, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987, 1940-1996)

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

May Sarton (Belgian-born American poet, 1912–1995)

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

Richard Bach (American author, b.1936)

Middle age is when you’re sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn’t for you.

Ogden Nash

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

Henrik Ibsen

The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle. It stands for permanence and separation from the world.

Simone de Beauvoir

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

Chinese Proverb

A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

Charles Caleb Colton (English cleric and art collector 1780 – 1832)

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

Charles H. Parkhurst (American clergyman and social reformer, 1842- 1933)

To most men their early home is no more than a memory of their early years. The image is never marred. There’s no disappointment in memory, and one’s exaggerations are always on the good side.

George Eliot

Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.

Channing Pollock  (American playwright and writer, 1880 – 1946)

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

Lily Tomlin