Quotes About Houses

She supposed that houses, after all - like the lives that were lived in them - were mostly made of space. It was the spaces, in fact, which counted, rather than the bricks.

There's something about old houses at sunset...they are ghosts made of wood, softening in the dusk that comes upon them like a tide.

it. I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sandcastles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skill is their capacity to escalate.

Agnes could read the history of this place, this hilltop. The first settlers here must have made a start clearing fields for their crops or livestock, even put up these grand houses. Then, after no tile at all, they had evidently given up and wondered off to do – well, whatever it was most people did around here to make a living these days. And now here was the forest already taking back the land, or trying to.

I just listened to the music, and breathed in the day, and remembered things. Things like walking around the neighborhood and looking at the houses and the lawns and the colorful trees and having that be enough.

There may be some truth in that idea houses absorb the emotions that are spent in them

It's a common misconception that places that have suffered psychic trauma must look sinister, too, with gaping windows, creaking doors, and walls twisted subtly out of shape. As with people, so with houses—a smiling, innocuous exterior can conceal the blackest heart, and

It would not be surprising if the villagers were afraid of these wild animals and tried to protect themselves from them, which would also explain why they had no doors or windows in their houses, so the animals could not get in that way. By using ladders, which the animals could not climb, the inhabitants were able to ensure their survival, at least from unwanted predators at night. No other explanation works as well.

we build him a temple, but we live in our own houses." Religion had been exiled to Sunday morning, to a place "into which one gladly withdraws for a couple of hours, but only to get back to one's place of work immediately afterward.

we build him a temple, but we live in our own houses." Religion

The critics based their argument on the fact that lower interest rates tend to raise prices for assets such as stocks and houses.

I'm definitely not for any haunted houses. They're all scary to me.

The Hogwarts houses are really gangs. They have their own colours, their own hideouts, and they are always riding for each other, like gangs.

There are things that are hard about coming from a divorced family, but having two houses is not one of those things.

I have been asked to collaborate with fashion houses using my artwork, which I will probably do.

You go to a lot of cities they've got these great big footballer's houses. There's not many in Stoke-on-Trent.

Too much of our media, and not just sports media, but media, in general, is one where the people with the voices live in glass houses.

A kid is always locked down inside their family. In the film, I felt like talking about loss and death, which we've had a lot of right now, but you know, the experience of lockdown maybe gave me more courage to believe we could create cinema while all locked in our houses.

The great houses of Britain have, for centuries, been the guardians of much of our history, not just of the families who built and lived in them, but of the people who worked there, of the local area, of all of us.

Building houses and mansion ranching is not ranching.

I think most writers' houses are disappointing. What's much more atmospheric and interesting are the places they wrote about.

There were a number of houses. When we first arrived in Limerick, it was a one-room affair with most of it taken up with a bed.

The part of Limerick we lived in is Georgian, you know, those Georgian houses. You see them in pictures of Dublin.

I like to save my money for buying houses.