House/Home

*Authors are unknown, unless otherwise noted.

The ornament of a home is the friends who frequent it.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

A flowerless home is a soulless room to my way of thinking; but even one solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.
~Vita Sackville-West

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

Where thou art ~ that ~ is home.
~Emily Dickinson

Where is home? Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart's tears can dry at their own pace.
~ Vernon G. Baker

So much of what we learn of love we learn at home.

Loving hands at home.
~L.D. Tessin

A little house ~ a house of my own ~ out of the wind's and the rain's way.
~Padraic Colum

Everyone needs their own spot.
~Robert Whalen

Home is where the heart is.

Home is where one starts from.
~T.S. Eliot

Why do we love certain houses, and why do they seem to love us? It is the warmth of our individual hearts reflected in our surroundings.
~T. S. Robsjohn-Gibbings

Have nothing in your homes that you do not know to be useful and believe to be beautiful.
~W. Morris

Ah! There is nothing like staying home for real comfort.
~Jane Austen

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters daydreaming.
~Gaston Bachelard

Oh, the fun of arriving at a house and feeling the spark that tells you that you are going to have a good time.
~Mark Hampton

All one really needs is a divinely attractive bed.
~Mrs. Winston Guest

And still she slept an azure-lidded sleep; In blanched linen, smooth, and lavender'd.
~Keats

There has never been a house so bad that it couldn't be made over into something worthwhile.
~De Wolfe

What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households.
~Sarah Josepha Hale

A house is built of walls and beams, a home is build of loves and dreams.

A house is made of brick and stone...a home is made of love alone.

This is my home, my castle fair.

Home is the heart's haven.

Home...
A world of care without,
A world of strife shut out,
A world of love shut in.
~Dora Greenwell

A home is more than just a house.

Bless this House. Live well, Laugh often, Love much.

So much of what we know of love we learn at home.

There is beauty all around when there's love at home.

May blessings from on high fall upon our home.

May happiness of heart & home be one, and may all who enter be enveloped in its warmth.

And each heart is whispering, "Home, home at last!"
~T. Hood

Where even the teakettle sings from happiness, that is home.
~Ernestine Schumann-Heink

Good sound cooking makes a contented home.
~Escoffier

Having some place to go is home.
Having someone to love is family.
Having both is a blessing.