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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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The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and read more

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

by Maya Angelou Found in: Home Quotes,
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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

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What the Nation must realize is that the home, when both parents work, is non-existent. Once we have honestly faced read more

What the Nation must realize is that the home, when both parents work, is non-existent. Once we have honestly faced that fact, we must act accordingly.

by Agnes Meyer Found in: Home Quotes,
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The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

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

by Confucius Found in: Home Quotes,
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Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

by George Bernard Shaw Found in: Home Quotes,
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There's nobody at home
But Jumping Joan,
And father and mother and I.

There's nobody at home
But Jumping Joan,
And father and mother and I.

by George Gascoigne Found in: Home Quotes,
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I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that
grovel--
Folks prefer in fact a hovel read more

I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that
grovel--
Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.

by Charles Stuart Calverley Found in: Home Quotes,
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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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Where thou art, that is home.

Where thou art, that is home.

by Emily Dickinson Found in: Home Quotes,
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