"However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home."

Robert Neelly Bellah, American Sociologist

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Kenneth Eade, American Author

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Edith Wharton, American Author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."

"She herself had grown up without any one spot of earth being dearer than another: there was no center of earth pieties, of grave endearing traditions, to which her heart could revert and from which it could draw strength for itself and tenderness for others."

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