House Quotes - Page 21

• Most people spend their lives building financial houses of straws, which are susceptible to wind, fire, rain and big bad wolves.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Rain, Fire, Wind

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• The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

  Stephen Gardiner

  World, Architecture, Interiors

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• The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

  Adolf Loos

  Art, Thinking, People

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• The moment this House undertakes to legislate upon this subject slavery, it dissolves the Union. Should it be my fortune to have a seat upon this floor, I will abandon it the instant the first decisive step is taken looking towards legislation of this subject. I will go home to preach, and if I can, practice, disunion, and civil war, if needs be. A revolution must ensue, and this republic sink in blood.

  James Henry Hammond

  War, Taken, Home

  James Henry Hammond (1836). “Remarks of Mr. Hammond, of South Carolina, on the Question of Receiving Petitions for the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia”, p.12

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• As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a den; and I laid me down in that place to sleep: and as I slept I dreamed a dream. I dreamed, and behold I saw a man clothed with rags, standing in a certain place, with his face from his own house, a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back. I looked, and saw him open the book, and read therein; and as he read, he wept and trembled: and not being able longer to contain, he brake out with a lamentable cry; saying, 'What shall I do?'

  John Bunyan

  Dream, Book, Sleep

  John Bunyan (1813). “The Pilgrim's Progress, from this World, to that which is to Come ... with Notes, Interesting Memoirs of the Author, Character of the Pilgrim's Progress, and a Key to the Whole Work ... by Various Eminent Men”, p.1

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• I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmothers since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years.

  Penelope Lively

  Country, Home, Grandmother

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• If atoms do, by chance, happen to combine themselves into so many shapes, why have they never combined together to form a house or a slipper? By the same token, why do we not believe that if innumerable letters of the Greek alphabet were poured all over the market-place they would eventually happen to form the text of the Iliad?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Believe, Science, Greek

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• You just don't notice the time of your own metamorphosis. Until you do. Every once in a while time dissolves and you remember what you liked as a kid. You jump on your hotel bed, order dessert first, decide to put every piece of jewelry you own on your body and leave the house. Why? Because you can. Because you're the boss. Because... Ooooh. Shiny.

  Sloane Crosley

  Growing Up, Kids, Dessert First

  FaceBook post by Sloane Crosley from Nov 15, 2014

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• When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the needed solidity.

  Origen

  Strong, Weather, May

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• Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we lost? 200,000.

  Mary Landrieu

  Years, Two, Nonprofits

  "Landrieu blasts Beck" by Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 29, 2010.

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• The only thing poverty does is grind down your nerve endings to a point that you can work harder and stoop lower than most people are willing to. It chips away a person's dreams to the point that the hopelessness shows through, and the dreamer accepts that hard work and borrowed houses are all this life will ever be.

  Rick Bragg

  Dream, Hard Work, People

  Rick Bragg (2010). “All Over but the Shoutin'”, p.25, Vintage

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• A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Space, Boxes, Has Beens

  Gaston Bachelard (2014). “The Poetics of Space”, p.55, Penguin

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• One must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in.

  Gaston Bachelard

  "The Poetics of Space". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1964.

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• Paperwork, cleaning the house, dealing with the innumerable visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone, keeping patience and acting intelligently, which is to find some meaning in all that happens-these things, too, are the works of peace, and often seem like a very little way.

  Dorothy Day

  Phones, Acting, Answering The Phone

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• As a child I had no toys; our house was bombed, but there were lots of bricks. Ruins are wonderful because they are the beginning of something new, you can do something with them.

  Anselm Kiefer

  Children, Ruins, Bricks

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• When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about it anymore, no more in my house than anywhere else.

  Anselm Kiefer

  Germany, Eras, Nazi

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• Very softly, but very swiftly, Last, the man with the grey face and the staring eyes, bolted for his life, down and away from the White House. Once in the road, free from the fields and brakes, he changed his run into a walk, and he never paused or stopped, till he came with a gulp of relief into the ugly streets of the big industrial town. He made hi way to the station at once, and found that he was an hour too soon for the London express. So, there was plenty of time for breakfast; which consisted of brandy.

  Arthur Machen

  Running, Eye, Men

  Arthur Machen (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Arthur Machen (Illustrated)”, p.1290, Delphi Classics

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• God intended women to be outside as well as men, and they do not know what they are missing when they stay cooped up in the house.

  Annie Oakley

  Men, Missing, Wells

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• Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.

  Mark Steyn

  Relationship, Thinking, Government

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• I will be a model prisoner, as I have been a model citizen

  Edwin Edwards

  Citizens, Prisoner, Models

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• The White House is a strange place.

  Marlin Fitzwater

  Strange Places, White, Strange

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• But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party.

  Vanessa Carlton

  Mom, Party, Kids

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you

  Knut Hamsun

  Men, Understanding, Solitude

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• The first time you buy a house you see how pretty the paint is and buy it. The second time you look to see if the basement has termites. It's the same with men.

  Lupe Velez

  Men, Looks, Firsts

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• The only place I can go where I'm not mobbed is my house.

  Emmanuel Lewis

  I Can

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