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Home Quotes
Read the best home quotes on family, belonging, homeland and hospitality from Homer, Ovid, Li Bai, Thiruvalluvar, Goldsmith, Tulsidas and more. Words that feel like home.
“There is no greater sorrow on earth than the loss of one's native land.”
Euripides
HomelandExile
“Home is home, though it be never so homely.”
George Herbert
BelongingSimple Living
“The house shows the owner.”
George Herbert
CharacterShort Quotes
“A golden nest or a silver nest is not as good as your own humble nest.”
Chinese Proverb
ContentmentBelonging
“Every family has a scripture that is difficult to recite.”
Chinese Proverb
Family LifeStruggles
“It is not the house that is called a home, but the one who keeps it.”
Sanskrit Saying
HomemakingFamily
“Mother and father are the first gods we know.”
Avvaiyar
ParentsRespect
“Benevolence is the tranquil habitation of man, and righteousness is his straight path.”
Mencius
KindnessVirtue
“To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order.”
The Great Learning (Confucian Classic)
FamilySociety
“Who first regales his guest, and then himself doth feed, what need that man to sow his field with seed?”
Thiruvalluvar
HospitalityAbundance
“The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.”
Confucius
Comfort ZoneGrowth
“A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship for the face of earth.”
George Eliot
RootsBelonging
“Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain.”
Oliver Goldsmith
Village LifePoetry
“From scenes like these, old Scotia's grandeur springs, that makes her loved at home, revered abroad.”
Robert Burns
HomelandPride
“I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.”
The Bible (Psalm 84:10)
FaithHumility
“The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.”
The Bible (Proverbs 12:7)
Strong FoundationsRighteousness
“And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.”
The Bible (Proverbs 24:4)
KnowledgeBlessings
“The guest arrived he tends, the coming guest expects to see; to those in heaven who dwell, a welcome guest is he.”
Thiruvalluvar
HospitalityBlessings
“There is scarcely less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.”
Michel de Montaigne
Family LifeFunny
“The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter; the rain may enter; but the King of England cannot enter.”
William Pitt the Elder
RightsPrivacy
“To love the little platoon we belong to in society is the first principle of public affections.”
Edmund Burke
CommunityBelonging
“The things that make life happier are these: wealth inherited not earned, a fertile farm, a hearth always warm.”
Martial
ComfortSimple Joys
“To entertain a guest is a sacrifice whose merit cannot be told; it is measured by the worth of the guest.”
Thiruvalluvar
HospitalityGenerosity
“The chicken at home is worth no more than lentils.”
Hindi Proverb
AppreciationFunny