House Quotes - Page 41

The more the art dominated my life and my house, the more the house became a home.

Nobody turns down an invitation to the White House, but I’ve seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live.

Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately houses, or products of the mill or field are our country? It is a spiritual thought that is in our minds.

Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.

Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.

It's the anarchy of poverty delights me, the old yellow wooden house indented among the new brick tenements

By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?

Another car is not going to help me out, a nicer car, I've already got it. A bigger house ain't gonna do anything for me, and you know, a yacht, it's not going to do anything for me anymore. So how can I find happiness?

Our bodies penetrate the sofas upon which we sit and the sofas penetrate our bodies. The motorbus rushes into the houses which it passes, and in their turn the houses throw themselves upon the bus and are blended with it.

Read no less than ½ hour a day or listen to audiobooks while in the car or cleaning the house. Biographies of great people taught me, as I said, that even eminent people fail but keep getting up.

If you would not step into the harlot's house, do not go by the harlot's door.

I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition.

Toilet paper - and no baby wipes - in the bathroom. If they're using dry paper, they aren't washing all of themselves. It's just unclean. So if I go in a woman's house and see the toilet paper there, I'll explain this. And if she doesn't make the adjustment to baby wipes, I'll know she's not completely clean.

My hobby is gardening, I love it, it's my main hobby. I like being at home and I'm very happy being in my house, I love cooking.

I cant believe anybody would celebrate a holiday where a jolly prowler breaks into your house and leaves gifts.

My friend, you thought you lost Him; that all your life you've been separated from Him. Filled with wonder, you've always looked outside for Him, and haven't searched within your own house.

I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small.

For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.

I always say if the house I live in is comfortable, and I have all the amenities I need, then what more can you ask for?

My house is to me as my castle, since the law has not the art to destroy it.

We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada.

Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.

As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.

It looks different when you're sober; I thought I had twice as much furniture.

This is the best night of my life," Raffy says, crying. "Raffy, half our House has burnt down," I say wearily. "We don't have a kitchen." "Why do you always have to be so pessimistic?" she asks. "We can double up in our rooms and have a barbecue every night like the Cadets." Silently I vow to keep Raffy around for the rest of my life.