Stranger In Your Own Home Quotes

#1. Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned traditions and expectations when they seemed to immutable.

Azar Nafisi

#2. There is a difference between feeding someone and eating dinner with them. If every Christian at home just made room for the stranger we would end homelessness overnight.

Shane Claiborne

#3. No one is a stranger, this whole world is your home

Franz Wright

#4. There might be nowhere I would be at home. I might always be straddling two worlds, and finding solace in neither.

Eilis O'Neal

#5. We profess to be strangers and pilgrims, seeking after a country of our own, yet we settle down in the most un-stranger-like fashion, exactly as if we were quite at home and meant to stay as long as we could. I don't wonder apostolic miracles have died. Apostolic living certainly has.

Amy Carmichael

#6. There comes a time in every young girl's life when she is instructed by a complete stranger to scale a tall ladder for dinner atop a roof, and in almost every case the best thing to do is refuse and run home to call the asylum from which the stranger escaped.

Gina Damico

#7. On Christmas morning, before we could open our Christmas presents, we would go to this stranger's home and bring them presents. I remember helping clean the house up and putting up a tree. My father believed that you have a responsibility to look after everyone else.

George Clooney

#8. Ten times a day, every day, I wonder at having wandered so far, and then, alienated from myself, a stranger to myself, I go home

Bohumil Hrabal

#9. I've returned and I look around me and think, I've missed my life. While I was off and alone, it went on here, without me, and I'm forever doomed to be a stranger in my own home.

Robin Hobb

#10. My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.

Richard Bach

#11. ... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.

Albert Camus

#12. They were so tired, in fact, that they didn't notice the stranger who had followed them back, watching from the trees as they made their way home.

Jonathan Ballagh

#13. Home. It's being new and old all rolled into one. Measuring your new against old friends, old ways, old places, Knowing that as long as the old survives, you can keep changing as much as you want without the nightmare of waking up to a total stranger.

Gloria Naylor

#14. One can go back to one's own home after a year's absence and immediately the door closes it is as if one had never been away. Or one can go back after a few hours and everything is so changed that one is a stranger.

Graham Greene

#15. traveling - it gives you home in thousand strange places, then leaves you a stranger in your own land.

Ibn Battuta

#16. I am not at home in myself. I am my own stranger.

Anne Sexton

#17. A Stranger There is a love I reminisce, like a seed I've never sown. Of lips that I am yet to kiss, and eyes not met my own. Hands that wrap around my wrists, and arms that feel like home. I wonder how it is I miss, these things I've never known.

Lang Leav

#18. if a house
does not
automatically
make a home,
then a body
doesn't
automatically
make a home
either.

-i've always felt like a stranger in my skin.

Amanda Lovelace

#19. I went home one afternoon to pick up a script without bothering to change, and a half an hour later the Beverly Hills Police were at my door because a neighbor had reported a suspicious stranger lurking around Ross Martin's house. I had to peel off my beard to prove who I was.

Ross Martin

#20. I had longed to come home but now that I was there, it wasn't much fun. Home wasn't the same if I couldn't sleep in my own bedroom or use the bathroom by myself. I felt like a stranger in those familiar rooms.

Peg Kehret

#21. I'm getting fed up of living away from home so much. They look after you very well but it doesn't matter how well you're looked after, how nice the hotel is, if you're away from home constantly, the bloody dog savages you, thinks you're a stranger, the kid cries and the wife's stuck to your face!

David Jason

#22. All of a sudden I didn't fit in anywhere. Not at school, not at home ... and every time I turned around, another person I'd known forever felt like a stranger to me. Even I felt like a stranger to me.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#23. Dad would be home soon. This might work to my advantage. I knew bringing the guy home would royally piss him off. He'd have puppies if he found a stranger in the house. Hell, he might even have a llama.

Jus Accardo

#24. Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold; but, though theirs they have enroll'd me, minds are never to be sold.

William Cowper

#25. The Soul is a stranger trying to find a Home
somewhere that is not a where.

Rumi

#26. Anacharsis coming to Athens, knocked at Solon's door, and told him that he, being a stranger, was come to be his guest, and contract a friendship with him; and Solon replying, "It is better to make friends at home," Anacharsis replied, "Then you that are at home make friendship with me.

Plutarch

#27. It was good to be a stranger in a land when you felt aggressive and acquisitive, but when you began to weave your horizons into some kind of shelter it was good to know that hands you loved had helped in their spinning - made you feel as if the threads would hold together better.

Zelda Fitzgerald

#28. Bryna is convinced her children are bipolar, and I wasn't going to swoop into a stranger's home for an afternoon and tell them all they were normal.

Jon Ronson

#29. I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.

Georges Simenon

#30. As a child I had dealt with a lot of loss and grief. I was constantly losing my parents, losing my home, constantly moving around, living with this stranger, that stepfather, or whatever.

Erin Gray

#31. Wherever he went he would be a stranger, for there was no home in the world for such as he.

Sylvia Engdahl

#32. Fame, on its best day, is kind of like a friendly wave from a stranger by the side of the road. And when it's not so good, it's like a long walk home, all alone, with nobody in when you get there.

Bruce Springsteen

#33. I can see you, out there, reading between the lines. Come home, stranger. Come home, untangler of my thoughts. Come home and tell me, what do I do with this breaking heart of mine?

Kamila Shamsie

#34. It's the worst feeling when you come home alone late at night and think the stranger sitting on your couch is a pile of clothes.

Dane Cook