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"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

Home, Washington, Wrong

"Home was not a perfect place. But it was the only home they had and they could hope to make it better."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Home, Imperfection, Hope, Acceptance

"Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home."

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

Home,

"A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

Home, Comfort, Cats, Mystery

"My tent doesn't look like much but, as an estate agent might say, "It is air-conditioned and has exceptional location."

Fennel Hudson, British Author

Home, Comfort, Location, Life

"Home is where they want you to stay longer."

Stephen King, American Author

Home, Belonging, Truth, Attachment

"Charity begins at home, but should not end there."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Home, Charity, End

"A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

Home, Joy, Kindness, Laughter

"Home was wherever they were together, and it felt good."

Kenneth Eade, American Author

Home, Love, Comfort, Belonging

"Home was truly the best place he could possibly be, but, alas, was not an available option."

Kenneth Eade, American Author

Home, Loss, Longing, Belonging

Explore more quotes by Joseph Conrad

"A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space."

Time

"They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience."

Friendship

"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."

Man

"How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?"

Heart

"For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness."

Love

"The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much."

History

"The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power."

Power

"This grimy fragment of another world, the forerunner of change, of conquest, of trade, of massacres, of blessings....the merry dance of death and trade goes on."

Civilization

"If you want to know the age of the Earth-look upon the sea in a storm. But what storm can fully reveal the heart of a man? Between Suez and the China Sea are many nameless men who prefer to live and die unknown. This is the story of one such man. Among the great gallery of rogues and heroes thrown up on the beaches and ports-no man was more respected or more damned than-Lord Jim."

Adventure

"All this happened in much less time than it takes to tell, since I am trying to interpret for you into slow speech the instantaneous effect of visual impressions."

Philosophy