House Quotes - Page 40

• I have no doubt that over the years my children will find plenty of things about me to criticize. But something tells me that twenty years from now not one of them will sit on some therapist's couch complaining because their mother didn't spend enough time vacuuming up glitter.

  Joyce Maynard

  Mother, Children, Years

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• Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest and profitable.

  Robert Grosseteste

  Faithful, Watches, Honest

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• I am not afraid of much. I kill all the spiders in my house, and I'm planning to go skydiving. I am into girl power, and I'm very self-sufficient.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Girl, Self, Spiders

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• I was around when my father finished the last payment of his house. I remember like it was yesterday. He had worked all those years to own that house and he cried. He was so excited and so happy and I want to see other people get that feeling, too.

  Magic Johnson

  Inspiring, Basketball, Father

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• People who live in glass houses have to wash their windows all the time.

  Art Buchwald

  Glasses, People, Cleaning

  Art Buchwald (1986). “"You can fool all of the people all the time"”, Fawcett Books

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• Today the House has a chance to give 25 million married couples the best Valentine's Day gift possible, elimination from the most unfair of taxes, the marriage tax penalty.

  Jerry Weller

  Marriage, Valentines Day, Couple

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• The American Dream is ownership … a house, a car, a vacation home and, even better, your own business

  Mario Batali

  Dream, Home, Vacation

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• American foreign policy is not understood by the vast majority of American people. And that this is due to a media that in this country is suppressed by Washington and by the owners of this media, who often tend to be corporate entities close to the [White House] and very often are arms manufacturers with a vested interest in chaos [in] the Middle East. And as a result Americans do not actually get both sides of the story.

  Denis Halliday

  Country, Media, White

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• The Heimlich maneuver works on house pets. My pit bull was choking on his dinner. I squeezed his stomach and the neighbor's cat shot right out.

  Scott Wood

  Funny, Dog, Cat

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• Lord, this humble house we'd keep Sweet with play and calm with sleep. Help us so that we may give Beauty to the lives we live. Let Thy love and let Thy grace Shine upon our dwelling place.

  Edgar Guest

  Family, Sweet, Sleep

  Edgar Albert Guest, “Prayer For The Home”

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• The biographer who writes the life of his subjects self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

  Leon Edel

  Writing, Self, Subjects

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• Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.

  Fergie

  Mom, Reading, Two

  "Fergie: The Superstar". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. November 1, 2010.

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• Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.

  Oscar Wilde

  Leadership, Guests, Frank

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• Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Men, History, World

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• I send messages to the White House continuously

  Mario Diaz-Balart

  White, Messages, White House

  "John King, USA", edition.cnn.com. May 7, 2012.

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• Animal experiments occupy a central place in the material and spiritual edifice of our whole civilization. We are speaking here of one of those foundation stones whose removal could cause the whole house to collapse.

  Rudolf Bahro

  Spiritual, Animal, Civilization

  Rudolf Bahro (1986). “Building the Green movement”, Library Company of Philadelphia

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• Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.

  William Kennedy

  Voice, Empty Rooms, Self

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• Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.

  Paddy Ashdown

  Anger, Years, Guilt

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• I'm a vegetarian. I believe that we're all equal. I ain't got no right to kill. Say a fly comes in my house, I tolerate that little a**hole.

  Russell Brand

  Believe, Littles, Vegetarian

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• One: Make Congress and the White House obey the same Obamacare rules you do. Two: Obama let business off for a year; we want workers to be let off for a year too. That’s the GOP plan. What part don’t you like?

  David Gelernter

  Years, Two, Obamacare

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• What I would give, I thought, to have been present as Elizabeth Keckley measured Mary Lincoln for a new gown, to overhear their conversations on topics significant and ordinary, to observe the Lincoln White House from such an intimate perspective. From that moment, my interest in their remarkable friendship was captivated, and it never really waned.

  Jennifer Chiaverini

  White, Giving, Perspective

  "Madison's Chiaverini finds inspiration in Mrs. Lincoln's dressmaker". Interview with Bobby Tanzilo, onmilwaukee.com. January 5, 2013.

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• Throughout our lives friends enclose us like pairs of parentheses. They shift our boundaries; crater our terrain. They fume through the cracks of our tentative houses and parts of them always remain. Friendship asks the truth and wants the truth, hollows and fills, ages with us, and we through it. It cradles us like family. It is ecology and mystery and language - all three. Our grown-up friendships - especially the really meaningful ones- model for our children what we want them to have throughout their lives.

  Beth Kephart

  Friendship, Meaningful, Children

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• The American people have every right to be outraged with the administration's approval of the UAE port deal. It is time the people's House make the security of our Nation's ports a priority.

  Russ Carnahan

  People, Appreciate, Priorities

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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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• With the Republicans controlling both houses of Congress, this is the Eisenhower-era revisited. It's ostrich time, where people are looking for comfort rather than challenge in their art. It's a lot easier to listen to Barry Manilow murder what are actually good songs from the '50s than to consider what [left-leaning songwriter] Steve Earle has to say.

  David Fricke

  Song, Art, Ostriches

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