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Quotes about home and the places our hearts live. This hand-picked collection brings together 30 of the finest home quotes ever written — from Robert Frost, Benjamin Franklin, Irish Blessing and other great voices. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.

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

— Robert Frost

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

— Benjamin Franklin

The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night, and I love the rain.

Mothers were made to be the huggers, the kissers, the cheerleaders, the heart of the home.

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.

Autumn is the season to find contentment and home within yourself.

May your home always be too small to hold all your friends.

— Irish Blessing

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A mother is your first home, your first love, your first friend.

May your troubles be less and your blessings be more, and nothing but happiness come through your door.

— Irish Blessing

A wife is a man's best reason to come home early.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.

— Samuel Johnson

I dwell in Possibility — a fairer house than Prose.

— Emily Dickinson

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

— Jane Austen

A rolling stone gathers no moss — but a tree that stays rooted gathers generations.

— Egyptian Proverb

Grandmothers are the keepers of family stories and the bakers of the best cookies.

Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, but a home is built one brick at a time.

May the roof above us never fall in, and may the friends gathered below it never fall out.

— Irish Blessing

The ruin of a nation begins in the homes of its people.

— African Proverb

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

May love and laughter light your days, and warm your heart and home.

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

A grandmother's house is a museum of love.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

— Winston Churchill

The best neighbours are the ones who make your house feel like a home.

The wife is the key to the house.

Home is where the heart is.

— English Proverb

May the festival of lights be the harbinger of joy and prosperity in your home. Happy Diwali.

May the lights of Diwali diyas fill your home with wealth, happiness, and everything that brings you joy.

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