Home Quotes

Home is more than an address. These quotes explore belonging, comfort, rootedness, and the feeling of being in the one place where you can be completely yourself. Some are about houses; most are about something less tangible.

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

Dalai Lama

More Home Quotes

“I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.”

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“When my son was born, and after a day of lying-in I was told that I could leave the hospital and take him home, I burst into tears. It wasn't the emotion of the moment: it was shock and horror.”

Susan Orlean

“The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.”

Barbara Corcoran

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

Confucius

“And I think what people in New Jersey have gotten to know about me over the last decade that I've been in public life is what you see is what you get. And I'm no different when I'm sitting with you than I am when I'm at home or anyplace else.”

Chris Christie

“I don't really consider myself one of those actors who takes his work home with him.”

Jeff Bridges

“I don't believe in organized religion - I dealt with them hand in hand, and a whole bunch of Catholic priests tried to molest me. Telling me I was gay and I should go home with them and stuff.”

Jonathan Davis

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

Mother Teresa

“When I was 14, I felt very rundown I had a home to go to, but I felt like I was 60 or something, older than I feel now. And I don't know if it's something that happens at 14, or whether it was adolescence or whether I was gay, or closeted gay, or whatever it was, I felt that.”

Gus Van Sant

“Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.”

Gabrielle Union

“Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't.”

LeBron James

“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

“I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.”

Kate Moss

“Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.”

Marilyn vos Savant

“My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.”

Buffalo Bill

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