Best 5042 quotes in «house quotes» category

You cannot choose the womb that houses you but you can determine the tomb that takes you home.

You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.

You can’t patch cracks on a glass house.

You contribute much to your marriage by the wise, thrifty, diligent management and oversight of your part of the household budget.

You do not see any improvements you would make?" Miss Harding's smile turned mischievous. "Not at present. But I should have to see the inside. That is where ladies really excel, you know, in curtains and cushions and such." "Indeed," David murmured, remembering how Maude had filled the London house with bolts and piles of fabrics and wallpapers and pillows the instant they arrived. Everything in the very latest style. And then he thought of Emma's cosy sitting room, all books and family portraits and dog beds.

You know that when a group of utility workers are withholding their customer service identification cards, they are likely engaging in some form of illegal activity at your home.

3 years ago I was stocking shelves at Target, living on Ramen noodles, and crashing at Billy's house. Now I'm on tour

You should never leave your "house of bread", under any pretence, whether it is oppression, troubles or hardships.

1962 to 1965, where suddenly the guitar became this icon of youth culture all over the world, thanks mostly to the Beatles. Add to that, that I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times, and that the guitar was the one instrument that my parents absolutely refused to let in the house. So you add it up and see that irresistible forces led me to the guitar.

A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.

A basic ingredient in the manufacture of perfume, the attar-a heavy, pale-yellow oil stored in small metal drums-had been put up as collateral by Bulgaria, in lieu of gold, at the Moscow Narodny Bank, a Communist finance house for East-West trade.

A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.

A babe in a house is a well-spring of pleasure.

A beach house isn't just real estate. It's a state of mind.

A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty.

About 1911 I had the idea of making for my son, who had just been born, a blanket composed of bits of fabric like those I had seen in the houses of Russian peasants. When it was finished, the arrangement of the pieces of material seemed to me to evoke cubist conceptions and we then tried to apply the same process to other objects and paintings.

Abraham Lincoln, who said, A house divided... is a condominium. Never got a dinner!

A Canadian newspaperman said yesterday that this is the President's "Easter egghead roll on the White House lawn." I want to deny that!

A business must have a conscience as well as a counting house.

A career is like a house: it's made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse.

A cat that's inside of your house that is angry and dissatisfied and hostile is more dangerous to you than a full-grown lion is on the outside.

According to Washington insiders, White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan could be the next official to leave the Bush administration. McClellan says he'd like to spend more time lying for his family

According to the recent polls, Bush has a slight lead over John Kerry. So today, Bush hung a banner over the White House saying, 'Mission Accomplished.'

According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.

According to our belief, Japan was founded by the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Omikami, who is revered by the entire nation for her all-pervading virtue, and from whom our Imperial House is descended.

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.

A country house is not the same as a house in a country and a hotel in the country is not the same as a hotel in a town but is it in a small town.

A country without bordellos is like a house without bathrooms.

A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets.

Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible.

A clean house will result in peace in the Middle East as well.

A country without a border is like a person in a house without a front door. Anybody can enter and you cannot ask anybody to leave.

Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.

Actually, my wine was served at the White House twice. Reagan must have been asleep when he ordered it.

Actually, I'm frequently described as the UK's only translator of Korean literature, but even that isn't accurate - Agnita Tennant is UK-based, Janet Poole is British though lives in Toronto, Brother Anthony was born here though is now a naturalised Korean citizen. There's also Chi-young Kim and Sora Kim-Russell, who are younger and do fiction for commercial houses.

Adam Schiff, who is of course the ranking member on the House Select Committee said earlier today I`d be worried about an impulsive president with an impulsive national security adviser.

A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room.

A developer is someone who wants to build a house in the woods. An environmentalist is someone who already has a house in the woods.

Adam Nevill a spine-chiller in the classic tradition, a writer who draws you in from the world of the familiar, eases you into the world of terror, and then locks the door behind you. The House of Small Shadows grows darker and takes on more menacing life with each step forward.

Adiós," she added in Spanish, "I have no house only a shadow. But whenever you are in need of a shadow, my shadow is yours." "Thank you." "Sank you." "Not sank you, Señora Gregorio, thank you." "Sank you.

A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house

Advanced Courses [in Scientology] are the most valuable service on the planet. Life insurance, houses, cars, stocks, bonds, college savings, all are transitory and impermanent... There is nothing to compare with Advanced Courses. They are infinitely valuable and transcend time itself.

A Fox entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head. He placed his paws on it and said, "What a beautiful head! Yet it is of no value, as it entirely lacks brains.

A family without prayer is like a house without a roof, open and exposed to all the storms of heaven.

A foolish man... built his house upon the sand.

A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]

A foolish man in wealth and authority is like a weak-timbered house with a too-ponderous roof.

A fool is wiser in his own house than a sage is in another man's house.

A friend came over to the house a few days ago and read one of my poems. He came back today and asked to read the same poem over again. After he finished reading it, he said, It makes me want to write poetry.