Home Significance Quotes

Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition. She also taught me that aging need not mean narrowing the scope of your activities and interests or a diminution of the great pleasures to be had in the everyday.

From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a gateway to America.

Houses aren't refuges from history. They are where history ends up.

All of us remember the home of our childhood. Interestingly, our thoughts do not dwell on whether the house was large or small, the neighborhood fashionable or downtrodden. Rather, we delight in the experiences we shared as a family. The home is the laboratory of our lives, and what we learn there largely determines what we do when we leave there.

We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability. We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to keep alive the important, evanescent sides of us.

It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant to his own imagination as he can.

A home is more than just where you live; it reflects who you are.

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

The only person for whom the house was in any way special was Arthur Dent, and that was only because it happened to be the one he lived in.