This week's Spouse Calls was about "home" and what that means to military spouses who live around the world. I discovered quite a few quotes from well known people on the subject of home. Some of them seemed very applicable to this life we live. Maybe one of these fits you, or maybe you have your own.
Home is where one starts from.
T.S. Eliot
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
George Moore
Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
Martin Luther
Where thou art, that is home.
Emily Dickinson
Home is any four walls that enclose the right person
Helen Rowland
Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Any old place I can hang my hat is home sweet home to me.
William Jerome
What’s a home and family for if it’s not the center of one’s life?
Loretta Young
One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in other’s minds.
Alfred Kazin
My home is in heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.
Billy Graham
All I was doing was trying to get home from work.
Rosa Parks
Home plate don't move. Satchel Paige
I'm always home for Christmas, just never in the same house
“I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.” – Maya Angelou
“Me and my children were at home with each other even as we were homeless.” – Diana Hartman
"Oh, we carry our home with us - we just have to find a house to put it in." – Five-year-old military child answering a reporter’s question about being in a new home. (Reader’s Digest, June 2008)
“I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn’t remember where I was until I looked over and saw my portable CD player. I went back to sleep thinking, ‘Oh, this must be my new home.’” – Abram Howell, military child reflecting on the time he was hospitalized for knee surgery just a few weeks after his family had relocated for the 9th time.
Thoughts of home
These are great! ... and the title is a wonderful thought as well. May we all be home for Christmas -- in our hearts.