"Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings."

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"Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings."

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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

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

Kenneth Eade, American Author

Home, Comfort, Safety, Belonging

"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."

Voltaire, French Writer

Home, Books, Fire, Property

Explore more quotes by Lydia M. Child

"I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book."

Stereotype, Lady, Woman

"Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings."

Home, Heart, Heaven, Word

"Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do."

Being, Spirit

"The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life."

Life, Lie, Cure, Humanity

"Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face."

Soul, Misfortune

"But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later."

Man, Men, God, Consequences, Laws

"The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos."

Genius, Expression, Eye, Language

"It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means."

Mistake, Evil, Fight, Right

"Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs."

Man, Needs, Temptations, Trials

"A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat."

Defeat,