House Quotes - Page 95

Forgetful of thy tomb thou buildest houses.

I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn; He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day, But now, I often wish the night Had borne my breath away!

When you're in my house you shall do as I do and believe who I believe in. So Bart butter your bacon.

Many men want wealth,--not a competence alone, but a live-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod to their houses, to ward off by and by the bolts of Divine wrath.

Some critics are like chimney-sweepers; they put out the fire below, and frighten the swallows from their nests above; they scrape a long time in the chimney, cover themselves with soot, and bring nothing away but a bag of cinders, and then sing from the top of the house as if they had built it.

Dirt is matter in the wrong place.

The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be . . .

The founding fathers gave the House of Representatives one function when it comes to cleansing the office of the presidency and that is impeachment, .. Whether or not a resolution of censure is appropriate is something beyond our constitutional authority.

Our clothing, our food, our household furnishings - all could be much simpler than they now are and at the same time be better looking

I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.

Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital.

Expect Nature to answer to your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair. The economy of nature, its checks and balances, its measurements of competing life - all this is its great marvel and has an ethic of its own.

As well expect Nature to answer your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair.

[Praying] demands that you take to the road again and again, leaving your house and looking forward to a new land for yourself and your [fellow human]. This is why praying demands poverty, that is, the readiness to live a life in which you have nothing to lose so that you always begin afresh.

Fit the parts together, one into the other, and build your figure like a carpenter builds a house. Everything must be constructed, composed of parts that make a whole.

The successful publishing house is the one that can guess ahead, not the one that imitates the past.

There is a great deal of quarrelling in the houses, and contending for power and authority; and the second wife is against the first wife, perhaps, in some instances.

I do like nice things; we do live in a great house, but I don't choose my friends by how much money they have or what labels they're wearing.

My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay.

I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

There is no more important task in Washington than cleaning up the culture of corruption. Yet the president - whose White House has become the cradle of Republican corruption - is not taking responsibility for the costs of that corruption.

You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest.

I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians.

On immigration, there are a lot of hurdles before anything arrives at the White House.