Robert Southey Home Quotations

Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost

There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.

Curses are like young chickens, theyalways come home to roost.

Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for a while what the virtues are which arise out of the feelings connected with these words, and if you have any intellectual eyes, you will then perceive the connection between topography and patriotism.

Ye who dwell at home, Ye do not know the terrors of the main.