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House Quotes - Page 104

I literally went from the outhouse to the White House.

"Ashley Judd's Story of Abuse Echoes Family's Sad Narrative" by Susan Donaldson James, abcnews.go.com. April 01, 2011.

It's easy to say no, I'm not going to do that. I'm not leaving the house.

"In 'Shatner's World,' Stories About Acting, Loss, Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 6, 2012.

He hath eaten me out of house and home.

1597-8 Mistress Quickly, of Falstaff. Henry IV PartTwo, act 2, sc.1, l.75-6.

The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book.

Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.358, Vintage

Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?

Thomas Clarkson, Ottobah Cugoano (2010). “Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano: Essays on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species”, p.124, Broadview Press