Home Ownership Quotes:

Home ownership is the cornerstone of a strong community.

- Rick Renzi

topic: Strong, Home, Community, Cornerstones, Strong Community

It's easy to underestimate the real cost of home ownership.

- Suze Orman

topic: Real, Home, Cost, Home Ownership

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.381, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

topic: Family, Happiness, Stay Strong, Stay At Home, Owning A Home

The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals.

- Leonard Boswell

topic: Dream, Jobs, Children, College Education, Home Ownership

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

- Toni Morrison

topic: Freedom, Self, Ownership, Self Ownership, Home Ownership

These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families. They wake every day to the reality of a horrible decline in the value of the home that has meant so much to them.

- Mortimer Zuckerman

topic: Dream, Home, Reality, Home Ownership

The most critical factor subduing the demand for housing is that home ownership is no longer seen as the great, long-term buildup in equity value it once was.

- Mortimer Zuckerman

topic: Home, Long, Demand, Housing, Home Ownership

As you know, in this country Anglo-Americans are about 75 to 76 percent home ownership in this country, where Hispanics, African Americans are less than 50 percent.

- Alphonso Jackson

source: "The Business of Government Hour" with Paul Lawrence, www.businessofgovernment.org. August 30, 2003.

topic: Country, Home, African American, Home Ownership

Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership rates are higher. And the violent crime rate has decreased.

- Cliff Stearns

topic: Home, College, Income, Median, Crime Rates

If God had wanted us to spend all our time fretting about the problems of home ownership, He would never have created beer. This is not to say that I am recommending that you totally ignore your responsibilities as a homeowner and just sit around all day with a can of beer in your hand. No indeed, I have long been a believer in purchasing bottled beer, and pouring it into a chilled glass.

- Dave Barry

source: Dave Barry (2010). “Homes and Other Black Holes”, p.8, Ballantine Books

topic: Responsibility, Home, Beer, Homeowners, Chilled

I'm fascinated how owning something, especially something as big as a home, can affect your political leanings. Home ownership spawns thoughts of equity and maintaining value.

- Kirby Wright

source: "Hawaii, Mortuaries, And Saving Kurt Vonnegut". Interview with Jane Ormerod, www.greatweatherformedia.com. September 5, 2013.

topic: Home, Political, Maintaining, Spawn, Home Ownership

It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom

- Alfred Jarry

topic: Home, Fire, Joy, Great Joy, Home Ownership

By laying the groundwork for a system centered on home ownership rather than the public housing popular in Europe, the New Deal made possible the great postwar housing boom that populated the Sun Belt and boosted millions of Americans into the middle class, where, ironically, they often became Republicans.

- Jonathan Alter

source: Jonathan Alter (2007). “The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope”, p.284, Simon and Schuster

topic: Home, Europe, Class, Groundwork, Public Housing

How do you think we have the home mortgage deduction? We have it because way back when it was determined that the American dream equaled home ownership. And everybody knows that the vast majority of the American people will never be able to write a check for a house. You have to finance it.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Dream, Writing, Home, Way Back When, Home Mortgage

Securities based on risky mortgages are what toppled financial institutions but it was the government that made the mortgages risky in the first place, by making home-ownership statistics the holy grail, for which everything else was to be sacrificed, including commonsense standards for making home loans.

- Thomas Sowell

source: Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.44, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Home, Government, Holy Grail, Financial Institutions, Home Ownership

No one pushed harder than Congressman Barney Frank to force banks and other financial institutions to reduce their mortgage lending standards, in order to meet government-set goals for more home ownership. Those lower mortgage lending standards are at the heart of the increased riskiness of the mortgage market and of the collapse of Wall Street securities based on those risky mortgages.

- Thomas Sowell

source: Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.42, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Wall, Home, Heart, Lending, Financial Institutions

I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.

- Barney Frank

topic: Home, Low Income, Ownership, Home Ownership

Most important, [research on affirmative action] has completely failed to show that affirmative action ever closes the academic gap between minorities and whites. And failing in this, affirmative action also fails to help blacks achieve true equality with whites - the ultimate measure of which is parity in skills and individual competence. Without this underlying parity there can never be true equality in employment, income levels, rates of home ownership, educational achievement and the rest.

- Shelby Steele

topic: Educational, Home, Skills, Parity, True Equality

We have the highest graduation rates, the broadest health care access, and the greatest level of home ownership and workforce participation in the country. And we did it all with a small population in a cold state that coastal big shots refer to as fly-over land.

- Tim Pawlenty

topic: Country, Home, Land, Coastal, Big Shots

Home ownership was the fig leaf for the rise in subprime lending. But that was really about cash-out refinancings, not buying homes.

- Bethany McLean

topic: Home, Cash, Buying, Buying A Home, Home Ownership