Cottages Quotes - Page 2

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

Life is very nice in Hawaii. I rent a place that has its own cottage so when my friends and family come to visit, they have somewhere nice to stay.

I would sooner live in a cottage and wonder at everything than live in a castle and wonder at nothing!

Overnight I became a cottage industry.

You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself. (Quoted by C.S.Lewis in Mere Christianity)

I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.

To help my muscles rebuild after I work out, I have a small serving of cottage cheese.

With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry.

Khaddar does not displace a single cottage industry.

Mr Michener, as timeless as a stack of 'National Geographics,' is the ultimate Summer Writer. Just as one goes back to the cottage in Maine, so one goes back to one's Michener.

An English village could never be mistaken for an American one: the outline against the sky differs; a thatched cottage makes a very wavy line on the blue above.

I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life... more particularly have I resented the sneers at Main Street. For I have known that in the cottages that lay behind the street rested the strength of our national character.

Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my own.

The wolf sniffed beneath the door to be sure this was a human cottage. The scent was undeniable. No pigs, except in bacon form. The wolf thought bacon form was a very sensible way for pigs to behave.

You can't possibly fathom the ins and outs of a prepubescent beauty treatment until you've felt the strange but exhilarating tingle of a cottage-cheese-and-Pop-Rocks facial.

I still see myself as a bit of a cottage industry. Being in a room creating stuff and seeing if anyone wants it, as opposed to going to work for someone.

Every farm with slaves was a slave-breeding farm. Raising slaves was mostly a cottage industry.

Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God's care and pity for every separate need.

Phaedra of Alonso’s death was a never-ending pain that gnawed at his insides. It made him a prisoner in his own cottage.

Like a wooden cottage of a lovely forest, leave yourself to the silence!

If you have good neighbours, you can bear living in a bad cottage; if you have bad neighbours, you can't bear living even in a good palace!

The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish.

Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners.

Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace.

If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life.