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“Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.” John Muir, “The Mountains of California” - 1894

“Home is where the heart is” Margaret Atwood, “The Blind Assassin” - 2000

“How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.” William Faulkner, “As I Lay Dying” - 1930

“I must say I think patriotism is like charity—it begins at home.” Henry James, “The Portrait of a Lady” - 1881

“No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home.” L. Frank Baum, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” - 1900

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.” James Joyce, “Ulysses” - 1922

“With people like us our home is where we are not” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “This Side of Paradise” - 1920

“That portion of the earth's surface which is owned and inhabited by the people of the United States is well adapted to be the home of one national family, and it is not well adapted for two or more.” Abraham Lincoln, “State of the Union Address” - 1 December 1862

“It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.” Theodore Roosevelt, “Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography” - 1913

“You know nothing about whereness. The only way to come to know where you are is to begin to make yourself at home.” George MacDonald, “Lilith” - 1895

“Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.” Sun Tzu, “The Art of War” - 5th century BC

“My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.” Richard Branson, “Losing My Virginity” - 1998

“Now Americans deserve to have this same spirit directed toward addressing problems here at home.” George W. Bush, “State of the Union Address” - 29 January 2002

“Putting people into homes, though a desirable goal, shouldn’t be our country’s primary objective. Keeping them in their homes should be the ambition.” Warren Buffett, “The Essays of Warren Buffett” - 1997

“A home without a cat—and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat—may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?” Mark Twain, “Pudd'nhead Wilson” - 1894

“Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here.” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” - 2007

“your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.” Rainer Maria Rilke, “Letters to a Young Poet” - 1929

“And at home by the fire, whenever you look up, there I shall be—and whenever I look up there will be you.” Thomas Hardy, “Far from the Madding Crowd” - 1874

“Home! That was what they meant, those caressing appeals, those soft touches wafted through the air, those invisible little hands pulling and tugging, all one way!” Kenneth Grahame, “The Wind in the Willows” - 1908

“I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are is my home—my only home.” Charlotte Brontë, “Jane Eyre” - 16 October 1847

“I’m going to go home. Everything is going to be normal again. Boring again. Wonderful again.” Neil Gaiman, “Neverwhere” - 1996

“real adventures . . . do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.” James Joyce, “Dubliners” - 1914

“When I speak of home, I speak of the place where—in default of a better—those I love are gathered together; and if that place were a gypsy's tent, or a barn, I should call it by the same good name notwithstanding.” Charles Dickens, “Nicholas Nickleby” - 1839

“In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.” Jane Austen, “Persuasion” - 1816

“I want to go home . . . but I don’t know where it is. ” Orson Scott Card, “Ender's Game” - 1985

“The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you’ve got to go somewhere afterward where you can remember them, you see? You’ve got to stop. You haven’t really been anywhere until you’ve got back home.” Terry Pratchett, “The Light Fantastic” - 1986

“The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.” Ray Bradbury, “Fahrenheit 451” - 1953

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