House Quotes

The house itself is of minor importance. Its relation to the community is the thing that really counts.

A friend came over to the house a few days ago and read one of my poems. He came back today and asked to read the same poem over again. After he finished reading it, he said, It makes me want to write poetry.

It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

My mom lived by herself with two kids. Sacrifice was the name of the game at our house.

I clean my own utensils, my house and I even travel alone. I don't know what the life of a superstar is like.

There are times when I can find myself in a book, too, for two or three hours. But afterward I have such an urge to go out and reach for other people. Very often they're not around. There's also a metaphysical loneliness. We all feel it. The burden of living one's own life is experiencing sensations that no one else can share. You take a step in a house, you start moving around the house, no one else moves with you. You're walking by yourself.

It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home

My house is me and I am it. My house is where I like to be and it looks like all my dreams.

One day, when I own a house, I'll keep a library full of books. Books are different from other possessions-they're more like friends.

At another house two women learned very fast; I say women, but one was a girl about twelve or thirteen, already married, however. There was a little child about three years old. My sister asked, 'Who is the True God's Son?' The little thing replied, in a very sweet voice, 'Jesus.'

My ambition is to not have to work any more. In 10 years I want to stop, and I want to be living with my family, taking care of my house. I want to be a housewife.

I have everything in my house organized to an unnecessary T, and I love it! The only downside: I have no excuses for losing my to-do lists.

If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them.

I don't really like to sit around the house listening to my own records. They're not that good.

I love Sutton House in Clapton, a beautiful example of Tudor architecture.

Perhaps my children will live in stone houses and walled towns - Not I

The Lord doesn't want anybody in His house who has to be dragged there.

House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.

Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art.

I would rather be a servant in the house of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.

For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children

Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.

Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses.

Home isn't where our house is, but wherever we are understood.

Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done.

Jeff Bodine was saying that when he gets depressed, that he cleans house.

Leinster House does not inspire the brightest ideas.

I can't sing and I can't dance, but I can lick any S.O.B. in the house.

So in my mind I own a lot of house records still

If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites.

If we steal a man's purse we are thieves. If we steal twelve hundred islands we are patriots. If you steal a man's money you will be sent to the penitentiary. If you steal his liberty you will be sent to the White House.

That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.

People who live in seven houses shouldn't throw stones

May there always be peace, love and happiness in every house.

I had fun coming every day and playing in front of a packed house - it was exciting.

May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.

The health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on each state's sovereignty.

Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization some how releases or frees you to operate more effectively.

The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge.

A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.

The lack of health care coverage has remained very important to me during my time in Congress and as a member of the House Subcommittee on Health, I am working hard with my colleagues to correct these inequalities.

In closing, let me just thank God, on the floor of the House, for not turning away from us even though we seem to be turning away from Him.

We turn off the TV, video games and computer - except for homework - during the week. The TV's reserved for Friday night, Saturday and Sunday just because that's the time to do homework, and it makes it that much less chaotic in our house.

Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.

Every summer, my grandparents would rent a house on Balboa Island. They had the house next to Bob Hope's. I've been going down there all my life, to that whole area.

Born Losers is a beautiful piece of writing. Scott Sandage is history's Dickens; his bleak house, the late nineteenth century world of almost anonymous American men who failed. With wit and sympathy, Sandage illuminates the grey world of credit evaluation, a little studied smothering arm of capitalism. This is history as it should be, a work of art exploring the social cost of our past.

What we speak becomes the house we live in.

If I never went home, what exactly would I be missing? I pictured my cold cavernous house, my friendless town full of bad memories, the utterly unremarkable life that had been mapped out for me. It had never once occurred to me, I realized, to refuse it.

I had an allowance, but I had to do things around the house to earn it. I think I always wanted my own money.

The Japanese garden is a very important tool in Japanese architectural design because, not only is a garden traditionally included in any house design, the garden itself also reflects a deeper set of cultural meanings and traditions. Whereas the English garden seeks to make only an aesthetic impression, the Japanese garden is both aesthetic and reflective. The most basic element of any Japanese garden design comes from the realization that every detail has a significant value.