Famous Quotes

"I am delighted to be back home in Galway, the place I first came to as a 19-year-old in 1960. It's here where my heart is and will forever be."

Michael D. Higgins 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 Michael D. Higgins

• "Through the inspiration of Vaclav's words, the courage of his dissidence and the integrity of his leadership, Czechoslovakia successfully transitioned from an authoritarian state to a free democracy at the heart of Europe."

• "The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars - an inclusive citizenship, equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do."

• "I hope that at the end of the seven years, people will say that I have been of some inspirational value to them at home in terms of inclusiveness and abroad, I look forward to representing Ireland."

• "I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people."

• "I hope that at the end of the seven years, people will say that I have been of some inspirational value to them at home in terms of inclusiveness and abroad, I look forward to representing Ireland."