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" Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast to his expectant friends. "

Alice Morse Earle

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" Where thou art, that is home. "

Emily Dickinson

" I'm more at home with my log cabins than I am in my house in Cherry Hill. "

" The home is the chief school of human virtues. "

William Ellery Channing

" I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home. "

Dorothy L. Sayers

" I'd like to say that I'm a rock star, but I'm not - I'm honestly more of a relationship kind of guy. I'm a guy you could take home to meet your mum rather than a guy your mum wouldn't like. "

" I don't take off my nail polish when I go home because I'm too lazy, and they're fine with it. Maybe the checkout at the grocery store's not so great with it, but they're fine with it. The distrust, the phobias, those are learned, those are taught. But the natural grace is to understand and to love. "

" All you have to do is say, 'I'm going home,' and you're the most popular girl at the party. "

" Americans are hungry for change both at home and in our relations with the rest of the world. "

" As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job. "

" Home ownership is the cornerstone of a strong community. "

" Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown. "

Stephen Gardiner

" I love my living room: it's the heart of my home where I get to chill and spend time with family and friends. "

" As an avid hunter and outdoorsman, I am blessed to call the bank of the great Yellowstone River outside Glendive my home. "

" My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows, and broken birdcages. The other half is very Aztec. Neon ikat fabric pillows, vintage books piled up to the ceiling, and shutters from Bali. "

Poppy Delevingne

" Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo. "

George Bernard Shaw

" Memorial Day isn't just about honoring veterans, its honoring those who lost their lives. Veterans had the fortune of coming home. For us, that's a reminder of when we come home we still have a responsibility to serve. It's a continuation of service that honors our country and those who fell defending it. "

" I live by 'Go big or go home.' That's with everything. It's like either commit and go for it or don't do it at all. I apply that to everything. I apply that to relationships, I apply that to like sports, I apply that to everything. That's what I live by. That's how I like it. "

" The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart. "

" Home is where you hang your hat. "

" For many of the brave men and women who have fought on the front lines, returning home means trying to navigate a complicated and bureaucratic Veterans Administration benefits system. "

Kirsten Gillibrand

" When I was about ten, I was very impressed by the way Tarzan could swing through the trees from vine to vine. No one ever told me, 'Don't try this at home.' "

" Our voice is an independent voice to represent the dignity and the search for peace and the reformulation of the international system; to denounce persecution and aggression of hegemonistic forces on the planet. This is how Venezuela has presented itself. Bolivar's home has sought a nonpermanent seat on the Security Council. "

" If I could go anywhere in the world, that place would be home. "

" Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends. "

" At home, I relax by catching up with friends. "

" From natural disasters to the refugee crises, the impact we can have as individuals might seem limited. But as many of our hosts know, sharing your home for even a few nights can make a tremendous difference in someone's life. "

" The first meeting-houses were often built in the valleys, in the meadow lands; for the dwelling-houses must be clustered around them, since the colonists were ordered by law to build their new homes within half a mile of the meeting-house. "

Alice Morse Earle

" You don't have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it'll go. "

" But, you know, you can't be a star at home. "

" If taking one-self seriously as a woman means committing to a life of grooming, pumicing, pruning and polishing one's exterior for the benefit of onlookers, then I may as well leave my unwieldy rucksack to the top of a bleak Scottish hill and make my home there under a stone, where I'll fashion shoes out of mud and clothes out of leaves. "