H. L. Mencken Quotes

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.

I never felt like I wanted to have kids until I could be home and be a daddy, and those are the things that I didn't have.

I'm just fascinated by houses. In another life, I'd have probably trained as an architect. If I had enough money, I'd collect them like other people collect teapots. I don't know why I love them so much. I'm just very interested in the idea of a house as a metaphor for the way one lives.

I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work.

As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.

Behind our unremarkable front door waits the little world of our making - our home.

Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go.

Home is the grandest of all institutions.

Home! With what different sensations different people pronounce and hear that word pronounced!

The true state of the union lies in your heart, and in your home.

Many make the household but only one the home.

In fact, I told our dear friends, the Burrell boys, five boys lived next door to us. "Why, we don't see your dad anymore?" "Oh, yeah. Yeah. He" - I lied. I said, "He comes home at night when you guys are in bed. He gets us up and we play." I said it so much that I started to believe it myself, you know?

If the government doesn't fund education, which they often don't, students are going to stay home and not go to school. It affects them directly. But I'm really not interested in writing explicitly about that. I'm really interested in human beings, and in love, and in family. Somehow, politics comes in.

Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talking.

Home was quite a place when people stayed there.

Home is where the heart is or where you bury the ones you want to eat later.

There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.

This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.

If women’s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.

Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.

I think the essence of family is that you have to agree to it, and then supply, out of your imagination and capacity for loyalty, the contents of it.

Imagine yourself as a living house.

All the average human being asks is something he can call a home; a family that is fed and warm; and now and then a little happiness; once in a long while an extravagance.