HOME. . . .

MY HOME

I recently found these quotes about Home in the October, 2004 issue of Real Simple that I fell in love with.

I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

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"The woman is the home. 

That's where she used to be, 

and that's where she is. 

You might ask me, What if a 

man tries to be part of the 

home -- will the woman let him? 

I answer yes. Because then he 

becomes one of the children."

-Marguerite Duras, Practicalities

(I bet there are several wives who will agree with that!)

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" 'Home is the place where, 

when you have to go there, 

They have to take YOU in.' "

- Robert Frost, "The Death of the Hired Man"

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"Home sings me of SWEET things

My life there has its own wings

To fly over the mountain, though

I'm standing still."

-Karla Bonoff, "Home"

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"Keep the home fires burning,

While your hearts are yearning,

Though your lads are far away

They DREAM of home.

There's a silver lining

Through the dark cloud shining,

Turn the dark cloud inside out,

'Til the boys come home."

-Lena Guilbert Ford, "Keep the Home Fires Burning"

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"It's the sweetest thing I know of,

just spending TIME with you.

It's the little things that make a house a home,

Like a fire softly burning and supper on the stove,

And the light in your eyes that makes me warm."

-John Denver, "Back Home Again"

(I love that song)

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"Home is a place not only of strong affections, 

but of entire UNRESERVE; 

it is life's undress rehearsal, 

its backroom, its dressing room, 

from which we go forth to more 

careful and guarded intercourse."

-Hariet Beecher Stowe, Little Foxes