Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.

Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.

Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

There's nobody at home
But Jumping Joan,
And father and mother and I.

There's nobody at home
But Jumping Joan,
And father and mother and I.

Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes read more

Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses -- those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.

His native home deep imag'd in his soul.

His native home deep imag'd in his soul.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

My whinstone house my castle is,
I have my own four walls.

My whinstone house my castle is,
I have my own four walls.

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.