House Quotes - Page 34

• Every proper exertion has been made and will be continued to carry out the wishes of Congress in relation to the tobacco trade, as indicated in the several resolutions of the House of Representatives and the legislation of the two branches.

  Martin Van Buren

  Two, Wish, Branches

  United States. President (1837-1841 : Van Buren), Martin Van Buren (1838). “Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress: At the Commencement of the Third Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress”, p.14

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• From a parent's right to know what their children are doing, to protecting citizens across the country from the growing threat of gang violence, the House Democrat leadership is simply out to lunch.

  Virginia Foxx

  Leadership, Country, Children

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• 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.

  Adolf Loos

  Art, Hate, Men

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• In '98, I locked myself in my house, went out of my mind and wrote 25 songs. I rarely bathed during that period of writing; I sent out for food, I didn't really venture out of my house in three or four months. It was a hell of an experience. The album is an overview of birth to now.

  Jerry Cantrell

  Song, Writing, Mind

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• In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.

  Harpo Marx

  Brother, New York, Children

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• Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told.

  Harpo Marx

  Laughter, Sides, Sound

  "Harpo Speaks". Book by Harpo Marx, 1961.

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• The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.

  William Gilbert

  War, Peers, Wells

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• There used to be this guy called Vinny who worked on the floor of the stock exchange, said one big investor who had observed the market for a long time. After the markets closed Vinny would get into his Cadillac and drive out to his big house in Long Island. Now there is the guy called Vladimir who gets into his jet and flies to his estate in Aspen for the weekend. I used to worry a little about Vinny. Now I worry a lot about Vladimir

  Michael Lewis

  Weekend, Islands, Long

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• Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

  Ellen Wilkinson

  Country, Might, Prison

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• Houses! I hate houses. I like public places. Houses break your heart.

  Jane Bowles

  Hate, Heart, Break

  Jane Bowles (2014). “My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles”, p.282, Macmillan

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• He [the householder] is the appointer of his owne circumstance, and his house is his castle.

  Richard Mulcaster

  Castles, Circumstances

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• They [Bishops] shall also banish from churches all those kinds of music, in which, whether by the organ, or in the singing, there is mixed up any thing lascivious or impure; as also all secular actions; vain and therefore profane conversations, all walking about, noise, and clamour, that so the house of God may be seen to be, and may be called, truly a house of prayer.

  Pope Pius IV

  Prayer, Singing, Church

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• If you're a burglar, it's no good waiting about outside somebody's house, looking good with your swag bag ready. Just get in there, burgle them and come out. I don't advocate that obviously, it's just an analogy.

  Ian Holloway

  Swag, Waiting, Bags

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• I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.

  Skitch Henderson

  Demise, Orchestra, Hollywood

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• Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.

  Caleb Cushing

  Country, Rights, People

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• And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the People, then I shall send my voice beyond the walls of this Capitol for redress.

  Caleb Cushing

  Wall, Voice, People

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• How could I stand by and watch my house on fire?

  Kamisese Mara

  Fire, Watches

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• There's no secret about my ambition, I do not want to go into the House of Commons. My only real political interest is in London and if one day I'm in a position to run for mayor, then terrific.

  Trevor Phillips

  Running, Real, Ambition

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• You know, when a president is about to leave office, most of the time most people are dying for him to go on and get out of there. But there are a few little rituals that have to be observed. One of them is that the president must host the incoming president in the White House, smile as if they love each other and give the American people the idea that democracy is peaceful and honourable and there will be a good transfer of power

  Nancy Gibbs

  White, Ideas, Office

  Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy (2012). “The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity”, p.502, Simon and Schuster

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

  Genghis Khan

  Children, Stones, Towns

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

  Sharon Horgan

  Beautiful, Tudors, Example

  "My East End: Sharon Horgan, actor". Interview With Kathy Sweeney, www.theguardian.com. July 7, 2012.

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• What farmers require is, that the prices should be moderate, and the markets steady and for this reason I did, in 1826, 1827, and 1828, take the course which I would now recommend to the House.

  Joseph Hume

  Reason, Should, Farmers

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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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• 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.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Organization, Despair, Looks

  Benjamin Franklin (1839). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.7

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• I'm an organizational fanatic. I created a locker room that the children pass through when they come in the house. Each child has a personal locker, and every day when they arrive home from school, they dump their stuff there-backpacks, shoes, soccer uniforms. I organize them by season.

  Kathryn Sansone

  Soccer, Children, Home

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. May 2003.

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