Maybe you’re having a rough day and need a pick-me-up. Or trying the find just the right positive words to express your thoughts. Here’s 101+ quotes about house and home that speaks to the love and comfort we receive from one of our favorite places.
Inspiring Quotes About House and Home
- “A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.” – Sydney Smith
2. “A good home must be made, not bought.” — Joyce Maynard
3. “A good laugh is sunshine in the house.” – William Makepeace Thackeray
4. “A home should be a stockade, a refuge from the flaming arrows of anxiety, tension and worry.” – Wilfred Peterson
5. “A home without books is a body without soul.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
6. “A house is a partner; you have to listen carefully” – Erica Bauermeister
7. “A house is made of brick and mortar, but home is made by the people who live there.” – M.K. Soni
8. “A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. “Because here’s the thing – we aren’t looking for houses; we’re looking for a home. A house can supply you with a place to sleep, to cook, to store your car. A home fits your soul.” – Erica Bauermeister
10. “Better to have a messy home and happy children than a perfect yard and unhappy children.” – Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg
11. “Birds are so much wiser than we! A robin builds a nest for robins. A seagull builds a nest for seagulls. They don’t copy each other – or build themselves nests as described in The Birds’ Decorating Magazine.” – Dorothy Draper
12. “Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.” – Edie Falco
13. “Contrary to what everyone else says, you don’t actually need to buy a million dollar house and go into extreme debt to live a satisfying and beautiful life.” – Elizabeth and Ethan Finkelstein
14. “Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.” – Matsuo Bashô
15. “For our home to be a refuge it needs to be a place where love, compassion, and patience prevail.” – Allan Lokos
16. “Good food and a warm kitchen are what make a house a home.” – Rachael Ray
17. “Good houses take work.” – Michel S. Smith
18. “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” ― William Morris
19. “He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home – Johann Wolfgang van Goethe
20. “Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.” – Charles Henry Parkhurst
21. “Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to.” — John Ed Pearce
22. “Home is a shelter from storms – all sorts of storms.” – William J. Bennett
23. “Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.”― Orson Scott Card
24. “Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring, of all earthly establishments.” – Channing Pollock
25. “Home is the nicest word there is.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder
26. “Home is the place we love best and grumble the most.” – Billy Sunday
27. “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” – Robert Frost
28. “Home is where love resides, memories are created, friends and family belong and laughter never ends.” – Unknown
29. “Home is where my habits have a habitat.” – Fiona Apple
30. “Home is where one starts.” – T.S. Eliot
31. “Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.” – Aleksandar Hemon
32. “Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart’s tears can dry at their own pace.” – Vernon Baker
33. “Home is where you can say anything you please, because nobody pays any attention to you anyway.” – Joe Moore
34. “Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.” – Dalai Lama
35. “Home is wherever you leave everything you love and never question that it will be there when you return.” – Leo Christopher
36. “Home isn’t a place, it’s a feeling.” – Cecelia Ahern
37. “Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.” ― Pierce Brown
38. “Home should be an anchor, a port in a storm, a refuge, a happy place in which to dwell, a place where we are loved, and where we can love.” – Marvin J. Ashton
39. “Home sweet home. This is the place to find happiness. If one doesn’t find it here, one doesn’t find it anywhere.” – M. K. Soni
40. “Home the blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel’s wings.” – Lydia M. Child
41. “Home was not a perfect place. But it was the only home they had and they could hope to make it better.” – Dean Koontz
42. “Home wasn’t built in a day.” – Jane Sherwood Ace
43. “Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.” – Robert Montgomery
44. “Houses are really quite odd things. They have almost no universally defining qualities: they can be of practically any shape, incorporate virtually any material, be of almost any size. Yet wherever we go in the world we recognize domesticity the moment we see it.”
― Bill Bryson
45. “Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.”
― Bill Bryson
46. “I believe that all of our lives we’re looking for home and if we’re really lucky, we find it in someone’s loving arms. I think that’ what life is-coming home.” – Anita Krizzan
47. “I do not understand how anyone can live without one small place of enchantment to turn to.” – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
48. “I don’t care if we have our house, or a cliff ledge, or a cardboard box. Home is wherever we all are, together.”― James Patterson
49. “I promise you, the blessings that emerge in a home prepared with love and attention are never limited by square footage or a lack of trendy furniture.” – Bre Doucette
50. “I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.” – Oprah Winfrey
51. “I want my home to be that kind of place–a place of sustenance, a place of invitation, a place of welcome.” – Mary DeMuth
52. “If I see it in nature, I know it will work in a home.” – Miles Redd
53. “If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.” – Malala Yousafzai
54. “If you know you’re going home, the journey is never too hard.” – Angela Wood
55. “In our home there was always prayer – aloud, proud and unapologetic. –Lyndon B. Johnson
56. “It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed is you.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
57. “It’s not how big the house it, it’s how happy the home is.” – Unknown
58. “Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action” –Mother Teresa
59. “May your home always be too small to hold all of your friends.” – Irish Blessing
60. “May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.” — Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey
61. “Maybe that’s the best part of going away for a vacation – coming home again.” – Madeleine L’Engle
62. “Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.” – John Howard Payne
63. “More than once, a dilapidated house that I’ve restored has actually helped save me, and given me a path to restoring the structure of my life.” – Nicole Curtis
64. “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
65. “No matter how big you are, when you go back home, your family treats you like a normal person.” – Ajith Kumar
66. “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
67. “No matter where you are financially, quality time is always available and with just a bit of love and creativity you can easily create a home.” – Kendell Fox
68. “No matter who you are or where you are, instinct tells you to go home.” – Laura Marney
69. “Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.” – Billy Graham
70. “Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.” – Irina Shayk
71. “One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.” – John Berger
72. “One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.” – Mark Twain
73. “One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.” – Margaret Mead
74. “Our home should be life giving and soul refreshing. A soft spot to land on a hard day and a beautiful place to recharge and rejuvenate.” – Melissa Michaels
75. “Our homes should inspire us to go out into the world to do great things & then welcome us back for refreshment.” — Melissa Michaels
76. “Peace like charity begins at home.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
77. “Peace that was the other name for home.” – Kathleen Norris
78. “People usually are the happiest at home.” – William Shakespeare
79. “People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.” – Zig Ziglar
80. “Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.” — Hazrat Inayat Khan
81. “Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.” – Bo Bennett
82. “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
83. “The cruel irony of housework: people only notice when you don’t do it.” ― Danielle Raine
84. “The home has endless love, laughter and laundry” — Unknown
85. “The home should be the treasure chest of living. – Le Corbusier
86. “The homes I like the best are totally occupied, busy, and useful, whether it’s a tiny little house or a great big one. Rarely do you find a great big house that’s used in a good way. So I prefer smaller spaces that are full of books, full of things that people are doing.” – Martha Stewart
87. “The light is what guides you home, the warmth is what keeps you there.” – Ellie Rodriguez
88. “The longest road out is the shortest road home” – Irish Proverb
89. “The magic thing about home is that it feels good to leave, and it feels even better to come back.” – Wendy Wunder
90. “The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson
91. “The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.” – Louisa May Alcott
92. “The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.” – Confucius
93. “The strength of a nation lies in the homes of its people” – Abraham Lincoln
94. “The sun at home warms better than the sun elsewhere.” – Albania Proverb
95. “There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never known beyond its hallowed limits.” – Robert Southey
96. “There is no place like home.”― Lyman Frank Baum
97. “There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.” – Jane Austin
98. “There is still work to be done on [our house] Matilda – we’re still missing the corbel right above the entrance and we need gutters – but the door to our house, to our home and hearts, stands strong and inviting.” – Amy Haimerl
99. “There’s nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.” – Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
100. “To be an ideal guest, stay at home” – E.W. Howe
101. “What we have collectively forgotten in the blizzard of leather poufs, reclaimed wood tables and ubiquitous ikat is that to make a home great, we need to spend less time in the marketplace and more time with ourselves.” – Paige Rien
102. “When I go home, it’s an easy way to be grounded. You learn to realize what truly matters.” – Tony Stewart
103. “Where thou art, that is my home” – Emily Dickinson
104. “Where we lay our heads, teach our children, heal and rejuvenate ourselves and experience the ups and downs of modern life is truly sacred ground” – Paige Rien
105. “Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
106. “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
107. “Yes, your home is your castle, but it is also your identity and your possibility to be open to others” – David Soul
108. “You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.” – Henning Mankell
109. “You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it’s all right.” – Maya Angelou
110. “You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family” – Anita Baker
111. “You will fall in love with train rides, and sooner or later you will realize that nowhere seems like home anymore.”― Shinji Moon
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