Daniel Handler Quotes

A house is not a home.

I suppose home is, for me, more of a state of mind. It's really more of about being where I want to be with people I care about.

Home for me is wherever my wife and kid are.

Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted

I’ve learned that home isn’t a place, it’s a feeling.

Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go.

Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table, the church bells in the morning, the bruised shins of the playground, the small fears that come with dusk, the streets and squares and monuments and shops that constitute one's first universe.

Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.

Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home.

Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together.

It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home

Home is where the heart is, we say, rubbing the flint of one abstraction against another.

I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal.

Despite the fact that I spend a lot of time in London, Switzerland and New York, Africa is the place I know and love best, and my heart will always lie here.

My parents live there, and I was born and raised in Scotland. I lived there for the first 11 years of my life, until my parents decided to take our family to France where we lived for a couple of years. We then moved back to Scotland, and that is where I feel most home - where I come back to myself, and I love more than I can say.

I have romantic ideas about home and what it should mean.

Mizzou was my real family. I loved it. Football was a sense of home. A home I never had.

I'm happy I've stayed because Rome has become my home and an indelible part of my life, in an almost unreal way.

Home is ultimately not about a place to live but about the people with whom you are most fully alive. Home is about love, relationship, community, and belonging, and we are all searching for home.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

My heart is definitely here, and there's no place like home.

There's always something about home that's special.

All of us need to be constantly reminded it takes a heap of living and loving to make a house a home.

I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home.

... home isn't always the place where you were born and bred. Home is the place where your everyday clothes are, and where somebody or something needs you.