House Quotes - Page 16

If our designs for private houses are to be correct, we must at the outset take note of the countries and climates in which they are built.

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

if a builder builds a house and the house falls and kills some one in the house the owners may kill the builder.

You are as much serving God in looking after your own children, & training them up in God’s fear, & minding the house, & making your household a church for God, as you would be if you had been called to lead an army to battle for the Lord of hosts.

As a child I had no toys; our house was bombed, but there were lots of bricks. Ruins are wonderful because they are the beginning of something new, you can do something with them.

If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.

To become a photographer leave your house first.

There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.

Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.

We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities.

When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the needed solidity.

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

I must hurry back to my house and my flowers in Monaco.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!

Always remember: The thieves of Peace are thieves in an empty house because only imagination suffers. You are Peace, that which remains Untouched.

When Sir Winton Turnbull [who represented a large rural seat], a slow and sometimes stumbling speaker, was raving and ranting on the adjournment and shouted: "I am a Country member." I interjected "I remember." Sir Winton could not understand why, for the first time in all the years he had been speaking in the House, there was instant and loud applause from both sides.

There never has been a house so bad that it couldn't be made over into something worthwhile.

I have a big problem when the sanctimonious, holier than thou congressmen and women go on national television for six hours and beat somebody up with a stick, and not because I'm 'Ms. Manners.' That's not what bothers me. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

For a house to be successful, the objects in it must communicate with one another, respond to and balance one another

Fame means when your computer modem is broken, the repair guy comes out to your house a little faster.

One of man's basic concerns is a house - a place to find protection from the rain and elements. But a house can be much more than a building. It is the social context of his family life -\-\ the place where he loves and shares with this closest to him.

I built up these lumber piles of love, and with fourteen boards each I built little houses, so that your eyes, which I adore and sing to, might live in them. Now that I have declared the foundations of my love, I surrender this century to you: wooden sonnets that rise only because you gave them life.

You are never lost when you can see the temple. The temple will provide direction for you and your family in a world filled with chaos. It is an eternal guidepost which will help you from getting lost in the 'mist of darkness.' It is the 'House of the Lord.' It is a place where covenants are made and eternal ordinances are performed.