Home Is Paradise Quotes

#1. To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.

Augustus Hare

#2. Paradise is a state of being, more than just the name of a suburb or a home.

Raquel Cepeda

#3. To live in a peaceful home is to experience paradise on earth

Radhe Maa

#4. When angels speak of love they tell us it is only by loving that we enter an earthly paradise. They tell us paradise is our home and love our true destiny.

Bell Hooks

#5. A one night stand with the perfect girl is like ... it's like getting to the airport in Hawaii, then getting right back on the plane and flying home. It's depressing to have been that close to paradise without actually getting there.

Steph Campbell

#6. The Earth - from our altitude at Hubble, we're 350 miles up. We can see the curvature. We can see the roundness of our home, our home planet. And it's the most magnificent thing I've ever seen. It's like looking into Heaven. It's paradise.

Michael J. Massimino

#7. If we could make our house a home, and then make it a sanctuary, I think we could truly find paradise on Earth.

Alexandra Stoddard

#8. My wish for the American woman is that she may always be an elevating influence-man's inspiration. Let him go forth to duty while she weaves the spell which makes home a paradise to which he may return, ever welcome, whether he is victor or vanquished.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#9. How peaceful death seemed, a simple and beautiful way out. Take me down. Take me home. Paradise ...

Duff McKagan

#10. Prayer brings a good spirit in our homes. For God hears prayer. Heaven itself would come down to our homes. And even though we who constitute the home all have our imperfections and our failings, our home would, through God's answer to prayer, become a little paradise.

Ole Hallesby

#11. You've heard of people living in a fool's paradise? Well, Leonora has a duplex there.

George S. Kaufman

#12. Why did the stories I knew best never end well?
But why too did I feel at home among them?
I could never give up the myths, the maps, the ship that had shaped me.
Blake's home might be paradise, but my home was the Temptation.

Heidi Heilig

#13. Paradise was always over there, a day's sail away. But it's a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home.

J. Maarten Troost

#14. Any love is a home-sickness, a longing for a lost paradise.

Jean Klein

#15. We all know how we can be turned around by a magic place; that's why we travel, often. And yet we all know, too, that the change cannot be guaranteed. Travel is a fool's paradise, Emerson reminded us, if we think that we can find anything far off that we could not find at home.

Pico Iyer

#16. I've got no other home to go to, not anymore. When I look at England now I see a dead place, Rupert. A wasteland. I won't live in a wasteland. I'd rather die in paradise.

Lev Grossman

#17. The rare beauty of distant places made home seem as if we had been thrown out of paradise and sent to purgatory or worse.

Scott Haas

#18. So after Another You I ran off to my very own piece of paradise, my home in Hana.

Richard Pryor

#19. Chaucer, like Homer, writes about a journey, but as a Christian he has a different goal. Homer wanted to go home, but Chaucer's pilgrims want a place of man's true home: paradise

John Mark Reynolds

#20. If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.

Malala Yousafzai

#21. Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.

Daniel Boone

#22. Home was that lone house on its great bend of Chatham River, no destination anymore but only the source of a vague sadness he thought of as "homegoing," a returning to the lost paradise of true belonging.

Peter Matthiessen

#23. Let your home be a heavenly paradise.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. On my return to Cornwall I discovered that I was living in a tropical paradise. For now I am content to explore my own home and our nearest neighbour France.

John Dyer

#25. But love of the wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only home we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need - if only we had eyes to see.

Edward Abbey

#26. At night in this part of the West the stars, as I had seen them in Wyoming, were as big as Roman Candles and as lonely as the Prince who's lost his ancestral home and journeys across the spaces trying to find it again, and knows he never will.

Jack Kerouac

#27. I'm not saying that owning a house makes life into some kind of blissful paradise; simply that it makes the difference between freedom and enslavement.

Tana French

#28. Gentleness and kindness will make our homes a paradise upon earth.

C. A. Bartol

#29. Finally found my paradise ... on a beach in Clearwater. When I die ring the bells and bury me at sea ... a few steps from my home!

Timothy Pina

#30. Well, the moral of the story, The moral of this song, Is simply that one should never be Where one does not belong. So when you see your neighbor carryin' somethin', Help him with his load, And don't go mistaking Paradise For that home across the road.

Bob Dylan