Sarah Josepha Hale Quotes

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

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.

Being at home with my family always inspires me. I find it hard to be inspired when I'm on the move. I'm not creative when I'm jet-lagged and sleeping in strange hotels.

There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.

I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them.

I love home, any home really - my mum's, and of course my own. I love eating food there and chilling in bed with a cup of tea.

The center of all my enjoyments is the home wherein are my wife and children, and I have no wish to wander out from that home in pursuit of any pleasures that the world presents.

The kitchen is a place I know well. It's my favorite room wherever I am living, and it has to be completely open and social.

When you're at home, you want to take care of home court.

My priority is always the home.

I love being married. I love my house; I love my kids. I love all of it.

I don't think about being the Colin Firth of the gardening world. I live a very insular world based around my family and my home, and to them I'm not the Colin Firth of anything.

We grew up in a small house with four bedrooms. I shared a bedroom with three brothers. But I enjoy the way that I was brought up. It kept me hungry. It kept me humble.

The outside world doesn't have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.

A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Riches.

Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest; Home-keeping hearts are the happiest, For those that wander they know not where Are full of trouble and full of care; To stay at home is best.

Our families and our homes are the center of American life, Everything we do is to make those homes-and the lives in them-more beautiful, more comfortable, more functional and more full of life and light and joy for those we love.

Look for happiness under your own roof.

Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.

Peace, comfort, quiet, happiness, I have found away from home. Only your own family, those nearest and dearest, can hurt you.

There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.

What really does work to increase the feeling of having a home and its comforts is housekeeping. Housekeeping creates cleanliness, order, regularity, beauty, the conditions for health and safety, and a good place to do and feel all the things you wish and need to do and feel in your home. Whether you live alone or with a spouse, parents, and ten children, it is your housekeeping that makes your home alive, that turns it into a small society in its own right, a vital place with its own ways and rhythms, the place where you can be more yourself than you can be anywhere else.

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