Famous lines and quotations about home ownership:

"I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first, I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down."

Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)

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

Bill Cosby (1937 - )

"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings."

Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959), New York Times, October 4, 1953

"A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself."

Louis L'Amour (1908 - 1988), 'Bendigo Shafter'

"A good home must be made, not bought."

Joyce Maynard, "Domestic Affairs"

"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"

Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it."

Ellen Goodman (1941 - )

"A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days."

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882),

Society and Solitude: Works and Days, 1870

"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police."

Jeff Marder

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