When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.

To be an ideal guest, stay at home.

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

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

A heart makes a good home for the friend.

If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.

The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.

Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.

Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.

Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.

When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home.

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

Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security.

The home should be the treasure chest of living.

Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.

To be an ideal guest, stay at home.

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

A home without books is a body without soul.

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.

Home is where the heart is.

When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.

Seek home for rest, for home is best.

Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

The prospect of going home is very appealing.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'

If no one shopped on Thanksgiving Day, the stores wouldn't open. End of story. I say we all take the pledge and stay home. Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks for what you have, not to save a few dollars to get more.

When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away.

I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.

When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself.

Home is the nicest word there is.

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.

Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.

A man's home is his wife's castle.

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.

I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself.

Any old place I can hang my hat is home sweet home to me.

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

Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I'm home now. But leave a message and I'll call when I'm out.

Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.

Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home.

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

A home with a loving and loyal husband and wife is the supreme setting in which children can be reared in love and righteousness and in which the spiritual and physical needs of children can be met.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

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

A girl phoned me the other day and said... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.

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.

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

Home is where one starts from.

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.

Where thou art, that is home.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

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.

Home is the place we love best and grumble the most.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.

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

Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.