House Quotes

The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks.

Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth.

The press was all over to get a picture of me. It got to the point where they were all over my house, following me to work... Then Tom Brokaw and everybody else was doing stories, 'A star is born.'

You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.

We live in a flat; my wife would be happy if we had a house with stairs. Or a little cottage in the country.

The time is come when women must do something more than the "domestic hearth," which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.

House Republican leaders voted more than 300 times to undermine environmental safeguards since 2011, but almost none of these measures became law because Americans pushed back.

It is rarely [Americans] dine in society, except in taverns and boarding-houses. Then they eat with the greatest possible rapidity, and in total silence.

It would drive me crazy to be a guest in my own house.

I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading silence.

I hate to sound esoteric, but there is something about a house that leads you to that one chair, that one corner, where you just sit and feel comfortable.

Houses are for private living, for friends, and for dogs.

My idea for peace in the Middle East is to go back to the 1966 line, but to build even more houses for the Palestinians, who are a poor people.

Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does.

Prison house for the soul

I don't build a house without predicting the end of the present social order.

In terms of the films I make, I'm just more excited about it if I've written it. It's like living in a house that you've built rather than a rental.

Why doncha come on over to the house and I'll show 'em to ya?

I choose my work very carefully, always for the script and the director, and I don't think that's going to change. My work is like a house. It's built on very strong poles.

Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.

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

Like a house in the rain, books were havens of permanence and protection from whatever it was that as a child I needed protection from.

We define a world. We build a house, then after building the house we enter into it and we never leave it.

Whenever we just try to please ourselves, all we do is cover up another window in the little house we're stuck in.

Several hours later, I heard my mother calling me to come into the house, and it never occurred to me that this was an experience that other children didn't have on a regular basis.

If you are finding that you can stop thought longer and longer, I would say your life is bringing power into your being. You are gaining things out from that field behind the house.

Go through every closet in your house in every room.

Nirvana is outside the fun house. You are walking around in the fun house forever.

Have lots of plants in your house. Nature and plants understand something about stillness and silence. As you interact with the green world, you will find a peace will enter your life.

I'm not speaking metaphorically, plants that you have in your house, or if you've ever made friends with a tree somewhere, there is a moment that these beings can aid you.

We get so involved with the latest craze or having the latest car or the most high-powered house that we lose touch with that which makes us happy - what makes us happy are quiet states of mind.

I always have to have breakfast before I leave the house, even if it's 4 A.M. and I'm not hungry.

Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.

I think that if one is faced by inevitable destruction -- if a house is falling upon you, for instance -- one must feel a great longing to sit down, close one's eyes and wait, come what may . . .

The information that follows is taken primarily...from government hearings and reports published from various Senate and House committees.

The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass.

I'm a mum, so my wardrobe consists of sweaters and jeans. As long as I don't leave the house forgetting my jeans, I count that as a fashion success.

I'd mortgage any house for art.

I like to sing and it's just really fun to sing, and I don't get too much. And at my house I'm not allowed to because, you know, your children can't stand it when you sing at home.

I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would send us a parcel of books by train.

I don't fly any awards at the house. Any award you get is usually for something you've done in the past. And I like to keep looking forward.

To go upstairs in the word house is to withdraw step by step; while to go down to the cellar is to dream.

When it came time for college, I told my parents I was going to major in acting. And they were so removed from anything to do with show business - my dad built our house and my mom grew our food.

My parents are both from Vermont, very old-fashioned New England. We heated our house with wood my father chopped. My mom grew all of our food. We were very underexposed to everything.

Each morning I face her window and pray that our love can be, cause that brownstone house where my baby lives is Mecca.

A seven year old to a neighbor after the boy's house burned down, "Oh, that was not our home. That was our house. We still have our home. We just don't have a place to put it right now."

A youthful American voice isn't particularly challenging - I've been a young American, and they're all around me. I can walk from my house to Barrington High School.

I bought my first house when I was 24 for £19,500 and it was sold two years ago for £256,000. I've always made profit on my houses.

Platonic England, house of solitudes, rests in its laurels and its injured stone

I would say for everyday I build buildings or houses like a bricklayer with canvas and paint.