Famous Quotes

"Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance."

Ella Maillart on Home

More quotes about Home

• "Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country."

  Margaret Thatcher on Home

• "A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."

  Benjamin Franklin on Home

• "Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."

  Oliver Wendell Holmes on Home

• "Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home."

  Bill Cosby on Home

• "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."

  Robert Frost on Home

More quotes by Ella Maillart

• "The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself."

• "One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm."

• "I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it."

• "Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive."

• "You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself."