House Quotes - Page 26

• If you put down a good, solid foundation and build one room after another, pretty soon you have a house. You build in your speedwork, your pace and increase your ability to run races and think races out. Then it's possible to run the way we do.

  Rod Dixon

  Running, Thinking, Race

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• Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.

  Bao ?ai

  Country, Independent, Citizens

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• When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

  Chinua Achebe

  Thought Provoking, Ceilings, Fallen

  Chinua Achebe (1986). “Arrow of God”, p.18, Heinemann

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• I must confess I knew very little about the trance scene, I'm more house and commercial dance but it was really interesting and different.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Inspirational, Dance, Interesting

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• There are no windows within the dark house of depression through which to see others, only mirrors.

  Miriam Toews

  Depression, Dark, Mirrors

  Miriam Toews (2001). “Swing Low: A Life”, p.179, Arcade Publishing

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• In the dream life you don't deliberately set out to dream about a house night after night; the dream itself insists you look at whatever is trying to come into visibility.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Dream, Night, Trying

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• There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The "negroes" of Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses, playgrounds and churches; and we had ours.

  Pat Buchanan

  School, Scary, Church

  "If Helen Thomas, Then Why Not Pat Buchanan?" by Michael Fauntroy, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2010.

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• Garbage clutters the house that has no dream.

  Michael Dolan

  Dream, Goal, Garbage

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• That's kind of how I approach life and football; why dwell on something that's hasn't happened.

  Brett Favre

  Sports, Football, Kind

  "Sunday Conversation: Brett Favre". Interview with Suzy Kolber, www.espn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• I suppose young people think football is glamorous - soccer - it's big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari.

  Bryan Ferry

  Soccer, Football, Stars

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

  Abraham Cowley

  Book, Garden, May

  Abraham Cowley, A. R. Waller (2014). “Poems”, p.88, Cambridge University Press

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• No Temple made by mortal human hands can ever compare to the Temple made by the gods themselves. That building of wood and stone that houses us and that many believe conceals the great Secret Temple from prying eyes, somewhere in its heart of hearts, is but a decoy for the masses who need this simple concrete limited thing in their lives. The real Temple is the whole world, and there is nothing as divinely blessed as a blooming growing garden.

  Vera Nazarian

  Real, Believe, Blessed

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• I cooked at the White House for Easter, last year, with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with cooking from the organic garden, and her message. I took my daughter and granddaughter there, and they were really charming, it was great.

  Jacques Pepin

  Daughter, Easter, Garden

  "Jacques Pépin is Not a Mallow Man". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2012.

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• I'm in this absolutely gorgeous manor house with acres of quite beautiful countryside. I've got trout in the river, an organic vegetable garden, I've got my work 40 yards from my home. I don't mind being criticised, but where are they criticising from? Which hut are they criticising me from, exactly?

  Jay Kay

  Beautiful, Home, Garden

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• Creativity always dies a quick death in rooms that house conference tables.

  Bruce Herschensohn

  Creativity, Tables, Rooms

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• All the Muslims are happy, and Godwilling this earthquake... will be felt right up to the White House.

  Abol-Ghasem Kashani

  God, Earthquakes, White

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• How will you become free? With a quiet mind Come into that empty house, your heart, And feel the joy of the way Beyond the world. Look within - The rising and the falling.

  Gautama Buddha

  Fall, Heart, Meditation

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• Learn how to regulate one's own house well.

  Chilon of Sparta

  Good Life, Wells

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• I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no one goes there. Absolutely no one - only me... Just a little house and a garden. And two dogs.

  Karel Capek

  Dog, Garden, Two

  Karel Capek (2004). “R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)”, p.94, Penguin

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• The poet is at the disposal of the night. His role is humble, he must clean house and await its due visitation.

  Jean Cocteau

  Humble, Night, Roles

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• He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on the rock because the wind and rain have ruined his house on the sand.

  Constance Naden

  Wisdom, Rain, Heart

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• It is not doubted, and you know it, that Ireland and all those islands which have received the faith, belong to the Church of Rome; if you wish to enter that Island, to drive vice out of it, to cause law to be obeyed and St Peter's Pence to be paid by every house, it will please us to assign it to you.

  Pope Adrian IV

  Islands, Rome, Law

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• Electing clean-energy leaders into the Senate, the House, and the Oval Office - and getting it done in the next few years - is the only real solution to climate stabilization at acceptable levels.

  Eban Goodstein

  Real, Years, Office

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• We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Men, Vagabonds

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• One of the best things about being [joyfully] retired is the freedom to travel when I want. When my son and daughter-in-law asked me to stay at their house for a week to house-sit while they were away on vacation, I had the freedom to do it.

  Helen A. Rosburg

  Daughter, Travel, Son

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