Quotations – Home – Feb 2009

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

Cervantes: You are King by your own fireside, as much as any Monarch on his throne.

John Payne: Be it ever so humble, there is no place like home.

Book of Proverbs: As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man that wanders from his place.

Washington Irving: It was the policy of a good gentleman to make his children feel that home was the happiest place in the world and I value this delicious home feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.

Shakespeare: When I was at home, I was in a better place.

Samuel Johnson: To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

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Published here 01 Jun 2026 and originally published in News and Views Feb 2009

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