A bird loves its nest and people love their home.

Other people’s nests of gold and silver are not as good as one’s own straw nest.

No pest bird will soil its own nest.

For Adam, heaven was his home; however, for Adam’s descendants, home is their paradise.

My house is like a castle to me, and the law cannot drive me out of it---(W. Stoneford)

Poems about houses:

Once I leave this place, the world becomes my home. (Li Shimin's "Two Poems on Passing the Old House")

My family's pillars are declining, and I am worried about coming to learn Qiu Prayer. (Li Ang's "Ti Cheng Xiu Ji Bamboo Barrier")

Beside the Wangjia Avenue in the imperial residence, there is a holy spring with a sacred horse, dragon and turtle. (Cai Fu's "Songs of Suburban Temple·Enjoy the Dragon Pond Movement·Chapter 2")

He returned to the boat without waiting for the moon, and returned to the Yue Wang family. (Li Bai's "Xianghe Song Ci·Four Songs at Four O'clock in the Midnight·Summer Songs")

Huang Shang Yuanji, the country's family is at peace. (Lu Zhaolin's "Nine Chapters of Zhonghe Music·Song of the Crown Prince's Palace, Sixth")

The Tian family has no neighbors and sits alone in the spring garden. (Lu Zhaolin's "Two Poems on the Spring Festival Evening Villa")

Mountains and rivers only ask about objects, and palaces and temples are not homes. (Zhang Jiuling's "Fenghe Sacred System First Came out of Luocheng")

Whose family is on the Qiantang River? The daughter on the river is the best. (Wang Changling's "The Girl with Shape")

A lonely sword thousands of miles away, sent to one family across thousands of peaks. (Liu Changqing's "Gift to Yuan Rongzhou")

One of them moved to Changsha, looking west to Chang'an but not seeing home. (Li Bai's "Listening to the Flute Playing in the Yellow Crane Tower with Shi Lang Zhongqin")

The Tian family has been plowing, and morning smoke rises from the well house.

(Wei Yingwu's "Yan Qi in the Garden, Sent to Zhaoying Han Mingfu and Master Lu")