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Quotes About Houses

the planets show what is happening, the signs how it is happening, and the houses where it is happening.
~ Unknown
The Utes who live in Fort Duchesne today are very familiar with the stories about the Buffalo Soldiers and their interest in Freemasonry. A patch of ground that once was designated as the graveyard for the Buffalo Soldiers has since been covered over with houses built for Ute tribe members. And that's where things begin connecting to our story.
~ Unknown
Winter is our time. They shut up their cities for the cold months. They put their horses in stables and sit around great fires in enormous houses of stone. If you want a bearskin, do you attack in summer when it is strong and fast, or cut its throat as it sleeps?
~ Conn Iggulden
In most houses nowadays (thought Lady Shaw) there was a feeling of unease. Time marched on and everybody ran madly to keep up with it; even pleasure was taken at a gallop.
~ D.E. Stevenson
You are mistaken if you consider this a criticism, either of my father or the houses.
~ Unknown
Kashmiri Pandits are the worst victim of intolerance who were forced to leave their houses, I saw their camps and am appalled to see the conditions they are forced to live in.
~ Raza Murad
Franschhoek Valley was, in recent memory, a simple place with some notable vineyards and two or three streets of Victorian cottages and a few older, thatched houses. The valley was settled early in the 1680s by Huguenots fleeing repression.
~ Justin Cartwright
Martha Stewart has two houses in East Hampton. She has an old fashioned Victorian house and a very new modern house.
~ Steven Gaines
How does dirt find its way into old houses like it does? Sometimes I think it's the house itself, old and disintegrating by degrees, breathing out sighs of itself, sighs longing for a little bit of notice.
~ Unknown
All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
All Reformers, however strict their Conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
Then I perceived, what I had never thought, that all these staring houses were not alike, but different one from another, because they held different dreams.
~ Lord Dunsany
Never agree to marry a man because he has potential. Men are not like houses; they do not make good fixer-uppers.
~ Jill Shalvis
Never agree to marry a man because he has potential. Men are not houses, they do not make good fixer-uppers.
~ Unknown
Puritanical observers of the goings-on at Kororareka were horrified. Charles Wilkes, who visited the Bay of Islands with the U.S. Exploring Expedition in 1840, described a slum town made up of "about twenty houses, scarcely deserving the name, and many shanties, besides tents.
~ Unknown
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.
~ Unknown
the priest just as he was about to begin a service or to search houses as the dancing
~ Unknown
Premonitions of the imminent catastrophe had condensed like a sticky dew in the houses and the streets, in cautious conversations and drowsy consciences.
~ Primo Levi
Does it give you deja voodoo how alike the houses are? That's deja vu, and I hate you right now. For narcing on you to your mom? Wait until you hear what I tell your dad. From the sly grin on his face, she knew what he was thinking. Don't you even think about it. I could tell him about the time we- Hell, no.
~ Rachel Caine
Does it give you déjà voodoo how alike the houses are? That's déjà vu, and I hate you right now
~ Rachel Caine
Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate.
~ Diana Gabaldon
And when they bombed other people's houses, we protested but not enough, we opposed them but not enough. I was in my bed, around my bed America was falling: invisible house by invisble house by invisble house -- I took a a chair outside and watched the sun. In the sixth month of a disastrous reign in the house of money in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money, our great country of money, we (forgive us) lived happily during the war.
~ Ilya Kaminsky
The borders were soon defined, after all only a tiny country had to be established, without territorial claims or even a proper constitution, an intoxicated land with only two houses you can find in the dark, even during total eclipses (solar and lunar), and I know by heart how many steps it takes, going diagonally, to reach Ivan's, I could even walk there blindfolded.
~ Unknown