Alternative form of take one's ball and go home

Past times which are fondly remembered are irrecoverably in the past and cannot be relived.

plural of old people's home

plural of old folks' home

Rather than feeling nostalgic or sentimental, one should simply accept any place where one happens to reside as one's home.

Alternative form of take one's ball and go home

(chiefly US) A house is simply a physical structure and does not count as a home until significant events in the inhabitants' lives have occurred there over a substantial period of time, and they have developed an emotional bond to the house and its immediate environs.

Alternative form of it takes a heap of living to make a house a home

Alternative form of the chickens come home to roost.

Alternative form of it takes a heap of living to make a house a home