Theme Development -> Specific Homepage

First, you need to use the front-page.php template file. In WordPress parlance, Home refers to the Blog Posts Index, whether on the site front page or another static Page, and Front Page refers to the Site Front Page.

Second, you have several options for exposing a UI to manage your front-page quotes (in order of preference):

  1. Make the Front Page a dynamic sidebar, with two Text Widgets, and a Menu Widget.
  2. Create Theme Options for the two quotes
  3. Add the quotes as custom post meta data to the static Page used as the Front Page
  4. Make the quotes Custom Post Types, and pull them into front-page.php