Home Life Quotes

“When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in a state of total liberty or anarchy.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Men demand much more than you think," she would tell her enigmatically. "There's a lot of cooking, a lot of sweeping, a lot of suffering over little things beyond what you think.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“She would seize every opportunity to dive into the bathroom, in a swirl of white towels, and once in there she was as hard to dislodge as a limpet from a rock.”
― Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals

“Many of us dream of a better, safer, more caring world, without recognizing that it all begins with creating and maintaining a deeper love in our own home. The seeds of world peace should be planted in our own backyard.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“Many new remote workers worry they’ll be distracted by their home life and lack the discipline to get work done. Instead, the exact opposite usually occurs: remote workers become more productive once they’re freed from a traditional office environment. Perhaps this shouldn’t be a surprise, because working remotely means fewer distractions, no commute, and the opportunity to take real breaks. Instead of the dreaded afternoon slump, you can stay fresh and energized all day.”
― Larry English, Office Optional: How to Build a Connected Culture with Virtual Teams

“... a kind little thought, an unselfish little act, a cheery little word, are so sweet and comfortable, that no one can fail to feel their beauty and love the giver, no matter how small they are. Mothers do a deal of this sort of thing, unseen, unthanked, but felt and remembered long afterward, and never lost, for this is the simple magic that binds hearts together, and keeps home happy.”
― Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl

“You know that I have hitch-hiked around and have been alone in weird cities and places, and waked up in the morning not knowing who I was (particularly one time in Des Moines.)
Neal, what I want is a big home with about twenty people in it, whole families at the same time, something going on all the time, someone leaving, someone coming, someone building a shelf, someone mending a fence, someone sewing, someone cooking, someone reading, someone eating, so on, and on, on, on . . . I want all the Shakespearian gamut of things in one big tumultuous house.

[letter to Neal Cassady, June 27, 1948]”
― Jack Kerouac, Jack Kerouac Selected Letters 1940-1956

“Most of us, at some time or other, get sucked into the lifeless vacuum of work; the cogs of the corporate machine that we keep turning until one day, when we depart this Earth, we may earn the word ‘lubricant’ on our headstone.”
― Fennel Hudson, Wild Carp: Fennel's Journal No. 4

“All paths eventually lead home.”
― Toni Sorenson

“Empires were not built in a day, nor homes in an hour.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Vocation of a Gadfly

“Is your home life more sorrow than joy? This isn’t the way it’s supposed to be. It should be more joy than sorrow. If it is, you know. If it isn’t, you also know. Remember this… God is always with you. This is the bedrock that allows the hopeless to remedy their situation.”
― Edward Weiss, The Silver Meditation: Connect With God In a Simple Way That Works

“RAND scientists tried to tell their wives that the decision whether to buy or not to buy a washing machine was an “optimization problem.”
― Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind

“Imperfect Silence by Stewart Stafford

The new roommates were,
The noisiest people alive,
Sandwich-making became,
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Is that dishwashing?
Or a battle reenactment?
Vibrations from videogames,
Shook the hollow home.

Then the 7 a.m. rite again,
Pianos dropped as you slept,
And their jumbo jet snoring,
Blew you out of the bed.

© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford