"Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph."

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"Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

Home, Love, People, Moment

"Laura Ingalls Wilder said, "Home is the nicest place there is."

Kenneth Eade, American Author

Home, Comfort, Safety, Belonging

"My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Home, Heaven, Traveling, World

"Home is a desk. The amalgamation of a dream. Home is the cats, my books, and my work never done. All the lost things that may one day call to me, the faces of my children who will one day call to me. Maybe we can't draw flesh from reverie nor retrieve a dusty spur, but we can gather the dream itself and bring it back uniquely whole."

Patti Smith, American Musician

Home, Dream, Family, Memory

"New Orleans, city of roaches, city of decay, city of our family, and of happy, happy people."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

Home, Decay, Family, Community, Happiness

"I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out."

George Eliot, British Author

Home, Women, Bachelors, Husbands

"People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace."

Zig Ziglar, American Author

Home, People, Relationships

"I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home."

Earl Long, American Politician

Home, Machines, Voting

"The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

Home, Danger

"Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Home, Death, Night, Will

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"Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream."

People

"Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods."

Art

"The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe."

Comfort

"In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way."

Marriage

"Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end."

Being

"We can only learn to love by loving."

Love

"Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic."

Truth

"Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is."

Love

"Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self."

Happiness

"We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is."

Future