"Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home."

Home, Charity, Giving

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"Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home."

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"I thought of the one thing about home that I missed, my dad's study with its built-in, floor-to-ceiling shelves sagging with thick biographies and the black leather chair that kept me just uncomfortable enough to keep from feeling sleepy as I read."

John Green, American Author

Home, Memory, Comfort, Life

"To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home."

Lesley Garrett, English Musician

Home, Truth, Opera

"More Americans own their home than ever before. Nearly 70 percent of American's are homeowners. So it is a good time for us to asses the positive impacts of homeownership on families, communities and on the nation's economy."

Randy Neugebauer, American Politician

Home, Time, Positive

"If someone knew equally as much about the ins and outs of your home, it would not be your home."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Home, Privacy, Identity, Trust

"The heart of the home beats in the kitchen and a healthy one beats three times a day."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Home, Heart, Kitchen, Health

"Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect."

Alan Moore, British Writer

Home, Intellect

"To a homeless man, home is literally where the heart is."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Home, Truth, Emotion, Homelessness

"And if you like 14.4 percent unemployment, if you like the fact that 70 percent of home mortgages in Nevada are underwater, then stay the course. Vote for Harry Reid."

John Cornyn, American Politician

Home, Fact, Unemployment, Vote

"There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife."

Steven Curtis Chapman, American Musician

Home, Wife, Cheating, Nothing

"Those who were cowards never started, and those who were weak were lost on the way, but the brave find a home in every land."

Walter Knott, American Businessman

Home, Cowards, Land

Explore more quotes by Emily Bronte

"Honest people don't hide their deeds."

People

"I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind."

Dream

"I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal."

Faith

"If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results."

Work

"I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide."

Nature

"Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves."

People

"I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low I shouldn't have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now so he shall never know how I love him and that not because he's handsome Nelly but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning or frost from fire."

Passion

"The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one."

Time

"Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends, they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies."

Passion

"And I pray one prayer - I repeat it till my tongue stiffens - Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you - haunt me, then!...Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!"

Vision