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    Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses -- those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.

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And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to read more

And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.

by Trent Reznor Found in: Home Quotes,
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Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.

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

by Dalai Lama Found in: Home Quotes,
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What's the good of a home if you are never in it?

What's the good of a home if you are never in it?

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What if in Scotland's wilds we viel'd our head,
Where tempests whistle round the sordid bed;
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What if in Scotland's wilds we viel'd our head,
Where tempests whistle round the sordid bed;
Where the rug's two-fold use we might display,
By night a blanket, and a plaid by day.

by Oliver Goldsmith Found in: Home Quotes,
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A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.

A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.

by May Sarton Found in: Home Quotes,
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The stately Homes of England,
How beautiful they stand!
Amidst their tall ancestral trees,
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The stately Homes of England,
How beautiful they stand!
Amidst their tall ancestral trees,
O'er all the pleasant land.

by Mrs. Felicia D. Hemans Found in: Home Quotes,
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How small of all that human hearts endure,
That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!
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How small of all that human hearts endure,
That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!
Still to ourselves in every place consigned,
Our own felicity we make or find.
With secret course, which no loud storms annoy,
Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.

by Oliver Goldsmith Found in: Home Quotes,
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Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

by Robert Frost Found in: Home Quotes,
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Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to

Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to

by John Ed Pearce Found in: Home Quotes,
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