Home

Civilization varies with the family and the family with civilization. Its highest and most complete realization is found where the enlightenment of Christianity prevails, where woman is exalted to her true and lofty place as equal with the man, where husband and wife are one in honor, in influence, in affection, and where children are a common bond of care and love. Here you have the idea of a perfect family.
~ William Aikman, Life at home; or, the family and its members (c. 1870).

Before a day was over,
Home comes the rover,
For mother's kiss -- sweeter this
Than any other thing!
~ William Allingham, Wishing

Yet dearer still that Irish hill than all the world beside;
It's home, sweet home, where'er I roam, through lands and waters wide.
~ William Allingham, The Winding Banks of Erne; or, Adieu to Belashanny

The earth is all the home I have,
The heavens my wide roof-tree.
~ William Edmondstoune (W.E.) Aytoun, The Wandering Jew (1867).

Perverse and foolish oft I strayed,
But yet in love he sought me.
And on his shoulder gently laid,
And home, rejoicing, brought me.
~ Sir Henry Williams Baker, The King of love my shephard is (1868 hymn)

. . . a great deal of wonderful clutter -- all of it carefully ordered and intimately meaningful to the homemaker. She cares little about the intrinsic value of any of her possessions as long as it's something she loves.
~ Billy Baldwin, from House and Garden Magazine (c. 1973)

I'm fascinated by each individual story. I'll walk down the street and see a homeless person, and I'll want to stop them and say, "How did this happen?"
~ William Baldwin

All children need bread and shelter. But a true home, of course, is much more than that. Children also need love and order and, because they are not born knowing the difference between right and wrong, a place where they can begin to develop a moral sense. The transmission of virtues is one important reason for a home, and attention to the virtues is one the important ties that bind a family together.
~ William John Bennett, The Moral Compass: Stories for a Life's Journey (1995).

I love being in Scotland. I'm looking forward to getting back and having a pint. . . .
~ Billy Boyd, The Daily Record (26 August 2002). I feared the Killer Orcs!: Lord of the Rings star's death scare!

The very linguistic difference between "house" and "home" is significant. All Americans who live in houses, not apartments, live in homes; the Englishman lives in his home but all his neighbors live in houses or flats.
~ Denis William (D.W.) Brogan, The American Character (1944). Part 1. Chapter 2

Fare you well, old house! you're naught that can feel or see,
But you seem like a human bein' -- a dear old friend to me;
And we never will have a better home, if my opinion stands,
Until we commence a-keepin' house in the house not made with hands.
~ William McKendree ("Will") Carleton, from Farm Ballads (1873). Out of the old House, Nancy

If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when
He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again.
~ William McKendree ("Will") Carleton, from Farm Ballads (1873). Goin' Home To-day

Things at home are crossways, and Betsy and I are out.
~ William McKendree ("Will") Carleton, first published in The Toledo Blade (1871). Betsy and I Are Out

St. Francis and St. Benedight,
Bless this house from wicked wight,
From the nightmare and the Goblin
That is hight Good Fellow Robin.
Keep it from all evil spiretes,
Fairies, Wezles, Bats, and Ferrytes
From Curfew Time to the next Prime.
~ William Cartwright, from The Ordinary (c. 1635). A House Blessing

Home is the chief school of human virtue.
~ William Ellery Channing (D.D.), Slavery (1835). Chapter IV. The Evils Of Slavery

Home is the nursery of the heart; children are really our teachers, and the lessons which they communicate are love, self-forgetfulness, interest in the welfare of others.
~ William Ellery Channing, from Memoir of William Ellery Channing: With Extracts from His Correspondence and Manuscripts (1848), Vol. II. Chapter V: Middle-Age Ministry

I've always liked it here. Part of me is Irish. . . . My family comes from the west coast, so whenever I come to Ireland I get a wee tingling in my heart that I'm where I belong.
~ Billy Connolly, Quoted in Ananova Ltd (19 February 2002). Billy Connolly feels at home in Ireland

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
~ Bill Cosby, Fatherhood (1986). Chapter 1

Domestic happiness, thou only bliss
Of Paradise that has survived the fall!
~ William Cowper, The Task (1785). Book III. The Garden

My walls outside must have some flowers,
My walls within must have some books;
A house that's small; a garden large,
And in it leafy nooks.
~ William Henry (W.H.) Davies, Nature Poems (1908). Truly Great

Sweet Stay-at-Home, sweet Well-content,
Thou knowest of no strange continent:
Thou hast not felt thy bosom keep
A gentle motion with the deep.
~ William Henry (W.H.) Davies, Sweet Stay-At-Home (1913).

On the whole, the Negro has few family festivals; birthdays are not often noticed, Christmas is a time of church and general entertainments, Thanksgiving is coming to be widely celebrated, but here again in churches as much as in homes. The home was destroyed by slavery, struggled up after emancipation,and is again not exactly threatened, but neglected in the life of city Negroes. Herein lies food for thought.
~ William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.) Du Bois, The Philadelphia Negro (1899). Chapter XI. The Negro Family

I love you. . . . Now go home!
~ William Everson (aka Brother Antoninus), Santa Cruz County Arts Commission (1991). Speech at Artist of the Year Ceremony

The music of the Gospel leads us home.
~ Frederick William Faber, The Pilgrims of the Night (1854 hymn)

Home again, his native land; he was born of it and his bones will sleep in it . . .
~ William Faulkner, Mississippi (1953).

How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.
~ William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (1930).

A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest.
~ William Feather

[A]re we doing our best to keep the home atmosphere warm and all persuasive, so that we will freely choose home to other places, however attractive they may be?
~ William Byron Forbush, Manual of Play (1914). III. The Home Club

Go search the world and search the sea,
Then come you home and sing with me.
~ William Schwenck (W.S.) Gilbert, from Songs of a Savoyard (1898). An English Girl

If you are a true Christian, you will not give way at home to a bad temper, impatience, faultfinding, sarcasm, unkindness, suspicion, selfishness or laziness. Instead, you will reveal through your daily life the fruit of the Spirit, which is love, joy, peace, patience and all the other Christian virtues that round out a Christlike personality.
~ Billy Graham, from The Hour of Decision (May 1953). The Influence of a Christian Mother

My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.
~ Billy Graham, from Hope for the Troubled Heart Traveling Through

Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.
~ Billy Graham

The foundations of civilization are no stronger and no more enduring than the corporate integrity of the homes on which they rest. If the home deteriorates, civilization will crumble and fall.
~ Billy Graham

I always thought of Levittown as a joke. . . . But it wasn't a joke to my parents. Levittown was a dream come true. They never thought in a million years they'd ever be able to own a house. But if you were a GI, coming back from the war -- no money down. Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.
~ William Henry Jackson (Bill) Griffith, Lowest Common Denominator magazine (Summer 1999).

No one to help me, no one to love,
No one to pity me, none to caress,
Fatherless, motherless sadly I roam,
A child of misfortune,
I'm driven from home.
~ William Shakespeare ("Will S.") Hays, Driven From Home (1868 song).

Folks, a feller never knows
Just how close he is to Eden
Till, sometime, he ups and goes
Seekin' fairer, greener pastures
Than he has right here at home.
~ William Herschell, Ain't God Good to Indiana!

Never mind, pet, we will have a home yet, then we will be happy.
~ J.B. "Wild Bill" Hickok, letter to wife Agnes (July 17, 1876)

Take me back home
There is nothin' fair in this world
There is nothin' safe in this world
And there's nothin' sure in this world
And there's nothin' pure in this world
Look for something left in this world
Start again
Come on.
~ Billy Idol, in Billy Idol (1982 album). White Wedding

Any old place I can hang my hat is home sweet home to me.
~ William Jerome, (1901 song).

Home is just another word for you.
~ Billy Joel, in Piano Man (1973 album). You're My Home

If The Family Circus has any social value, it shows parents that their children are normal. And if there is a philosophy behind the feature, it's this: A home filled with love and laughter is the happiest place in the world.
~ Bill Keane, King Features About the Cartoonist

No man who owns his own house and lot can be a communist. He has too much to do.
~ William J. Levitt

I had no job, very little money, no car, had no idea what I was going to do, but knew it was time to go home.
~ Wilma Mankiller

For the stronger we our houses do build,
The less chance we have of being killed.
~ William Topaz McGonagall, The Tay Bridge Disaster (1890).

Homesickness makes us all young, makes us all little children again.
~ William McLennan

For there 's nae luck about the house,
There 's nae luck at a';
There 's little pleasure in the house
When our gudeman 's awa'.
~ William Julius Mickle, The Mariner's Wife

If you want a golden rule that will fit everybody, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
~ William Morris, in Hopes and Fears for Art (1882). The Beauty of Life (Lecture delivered before the Birmingham Society of Arts and School of Design; February 19, 1880)

[W]hatever you have in your rooms think first of the walls; for they are that which makes your house and home.
~ William Morris, Address delivered before the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, London (1882). The Lesser Arts of Life

And it was to this city, whenever I went home, that I always knew I must return, for it was mistress of one's wildest hopes, protector of one's deepest privacies. It was half insane with its noise, violence, and decay, but it gave one the tender security of fulfillment.
~ Willie Morris

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.
~ Willie Morris

As an artist, a man has no home in Europe save in Paris.
~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Ecce Homo (1888).

The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter, the rain may enter -- but the King of England cannot enter; all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!
~ William Pitt, the Elder, Speech on the Excise Bill (c. March 1763).

Don't turn down the light. I'm afraid to go home in the dark.
~ William Sidney Porter (O. Henry) (last words)

But the world was my home and I was glad to be in it.
~ William Saroyan, The Bicycle Rider in Beverly Hills (1952).

Is the small town a place, truly, of the world, or is it no more than something out of a boy's dreaming? Out of his love of all things not of death made? All things somewhere beyond the dust, rust, and decay, beyond the top, beyond all sides, beyond bottom: outside, around, over, under, within?
~ William Saroyan, The Saroyan Special: Selected Short Stories (1948). My Home, My Home

There is the home where I would bide,
If trees like men had souls inside,-
Which is, of course, a fantasy
None could conceive but dolts like me. . . .
Let others vision Heaven's gate,
Dark Pine, I dream for me you wait.
~ Robert William Service, from Songs For My Supper (1953). Dark Pine

Fear no more the heat o' the sun,
Nor the furious winter's rages;
Thou thy worldly task hast done,
Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages:
Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.
~ William Shakespeare, Cymbeline. Act IV, scene ii

He hath eaten me out of house and home.
~ William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II. Act II, scene i

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
~ William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act I, scene i

The houses that he makes last till doomsday.
~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet. Act V, scene i

That is my home of love: if I have rang'd,
Like him that travels, I return again.
~ William Shakespeare, Sonnet 109

'Tis ever common
That men are merriest when they are from home.
~ William Shakespeare, King Henry V. Act I, scene ii

What hempen home-spuns have we swaggering here?
~ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

When I was at home, I was in a better place; but travellers must be content.
~ William Shakespeare, As You Like It. Act II, scene iv

One way to find your place is like
the rain, a million requests
for lodging, one that wins, finds
your cheek: you find your home.
~ William Stafford, The Way It Is (1993). Bring The North

Wherever we looked the land would hold us up.
~ William Stafford, from West of Your City (1960). One Home

This was to be my home. I wondered, for a moment, why. Then I remembered that this is the sort of place in which most people live, in most of the world, for most of the time. This or something worse. . . . Then I was home.
~ William Stringfellow, My People Is The Enemy (1964).

Home is the place we love best and grumble the most.
~ William A. "Billy" Sunday

Keep your faith at home. That is the resounding message of most of America's courts, political leaders, educators, liberal clergy, and a growing number of secular-minded common citizens.
~ William D. Watkins, The New Absolutes (1996).

In this house with starry dome,
Floored with gemlike plains and seas,
Shall I never feel at home,
Never wholly be at ease?
~ William Watson, from The Poems of William Watson (1893). World-Strangeness

It's happened elsewhere and has killed people. It's hitting home. It's getting real, and everybody's scared.
~ William Wheeler, The Associated Press (26 October 2001). New York Postal Workers Uneasy

They are the ones of our middle class who have left home, spiritually as well as physically, to take vows of organization life, they who are the mind and soul of our great self-perpetuating institutions.
~ William H. Whyte, The Organization Man (1956).

Far from the city's dust and heat,
I get but sounds and odors sweet.
Who can wonder I love to stay,
Week after week, here hidden away,
In this sly nook that I love the best --
This little brown house like a ground-bird's nest?
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Maurine and Other Poems (1888). My Home

You will be home before the leaves have fallen from the trees.
~ Kaiser Wilhelm II

It's a corner of heaven itself,
Though it's only a tumble-down nest,
With love brooding there, no place can compare
With my little grey home in the West.
~ Eardley Wilmot, Quoted in Criswell Freeman The Wisdom of the West (1997).

The cornerstone of safe, stable neighborhoods is good housing.
~ Anthony Williams, in PRNewswire Model Faith-Based Partnership to Provide Affordable Homes for Low-Income D.C. Families (17 July 2001)

It feels good to be home and let's keep praying for all those soldiers who are still fighting. God bless America. I love you.
~ Chief Warrant Officer David S. Williams, Statement during "Homecoming ceremony" at Fort Hood TX (19 April 2003).

We all would like to thank all Americans for the tremendous support we've been getting. We're looking forward to coming home as soon as we possibly can. I'd just like to remind everyone to say a special prayer for all those who are still fighting on the American fence. God bless America. We love you all.
~ Chief Warrant Officer David S. Williams, Statement during a public appearance, with seven freed POWs, at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany (18 April 2003).

Turn up the lights; I don't want to go home in the dark.
~ Harry Williams (1907 song)

Sometimes I have dreamed of living there. I could afford such a home. But this evening, leaving my office, I returned to my small, inexpensive home in an unrestricted, comparatively undesirable section of Los Angeles . . . because . . . I am a Negro.
~ Paul Revere Williams, in American magazine (July 1937).

We've had our clothes ripped off us, jackets going missing, scratches all down our backs -- and then we go home to our mums.
~ Robbie Williams

Never make your home in a place -- make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it -- memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.
~ Tad Williams

[T]he crossroads is your home.
~ William Carlos Williams, The Red Lily

Who shall say I am not
the happy genius of my household?
~ William Carlos Williams, from Al Que Quiere! A Book of Poems (1917). Danse Russe

Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.
~ Earl Wilson

An' this house just ain't no home
Anytime she goes away.
~ Bill Withers, in Just As I Am (1971 album). Ain't No Sunshine

And homeless near a thousand homes I stood,
And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.
~ William Wordsworth, Guilt and Sorrow (1793-94)

But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home.
~ William Wordsworth, from Poems in Two Volumes (1807). Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood

The earth we pace
Again appears to be
An unsubstantial, faery place,
That is fit home for Thee!
~ William Wordsworth, from Poems in Two Volumes (1807). To the Cuckoo

A statesman is an easy man,
He tells his lies by rote;
A journalist makes up his lies
And takes you by the throat;
So stay at home and drink your beer
And let the neighbours vote.
~ William Butler Yeats, The Old Stone Cross