"Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home." ~ James Joyce
Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort. ~ Jane Austen
Make two homes for thyself... One actual home... and another spiritual home, which thou art to carry with thee always. ~ St. Catherine of Siena
On these sands and in the clefts of the rocks, in the depths of the sea, in the creaking of the pines, you'll spy secret footprints and catch far-off voices from the homecoming celebration. This land still longs for Odysseus. ~ Homer
We have never stayed home long enough to experience the truth about ourselves. ~ Erich Schiffmann
I had three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments. ~ Channing Pollock
The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are invoking that home, so you are assuaging the homesickness. ~ Joan Didion
Where we love is home--home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
When a man’s home is born out of his heart and developed through his labor and perfected through his sense of beauty, it is the very cornerstone of life. ~ Gustav Stickley
The home is the center and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
From ev'ry single window, I see your face./But when I reach a window there's an empty space. ~ Larry Conley
Sweet is the smile of home; the mutual look when hearts are of each other sure. ~ John Keble
The most important things in your home are people. ~ Barbara Johnson
By home, we mean a place in which the mind can settle… a refuge to which we flee in the expectation of finding those calm pleasures, those soothing kindnesses, which are the sweetness of life. ~ James Bean