Most of us are familiar with the proverb “Home is where the heart is”, but do you know who originally said it?
While you’re pondering the answer*, have a browse through this collection of ‘homely’ quotes by writers, poets, composers and actors.
Home sweet home
“Home is where one starts from.” ~ T.S. Eliot
“Home wasn’t built in a day.” ~ Jane Sherwood Ace
“Home is the nicest word there is.” ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
“When I was at home, I was in a better place.” ~ William Shakespeare
“There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.” ~ Jane Austen
“Home is not where you live, but where they understand you.” ~ Christian Morgenstern
“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” ~ Robert Frost
“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.” ~ Maya Angelou
“You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.” ~ Henning Mankell
“There is a magic in that little word: home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never known beyond its hallowed limits.” ~ Robert Southey
Leaving home… and coming home again
“We carry our homes within us, which enables us to fly.” ~ John Cage
“Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” ~ George Moore
“Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave… and grow old wanting to get back to.” ~ John Ed Pearce
“The magic thing about home is that it feels good to leave, and it feels even better to come back.” ~ Wendy Wunder
“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and lays his head on his old, familiar pillow.” ~ Lin Yutang
“It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed is you.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
* Answer: attributed to Pliny the Elder, Roman author and philosopher
