Quotes About Dwellings

some houses have life—are home, are dwellings—and others don't. Dwelling is an old-fashioned word we've misplaced. When we live heart and soul, we dwell. When we belong

The desirability of segregating dwellings from work has been so dinned into us that it takes an effort to look at real life and observe that residential districts lacking mixture with work do not fare well in cities.

Some primitive peoples, like the Veddahs of Ceylon, had no dwellings at all, and were content with the earth and the sky; some, like the Tasmanians, slept in hollow trees; some, like the natives of New South Wales, lived in caves; others, like the Bushmen, built here and there a wind-shelter of branches, or, more rarely, drove piles into the soil and covered their tops with moss and twigs.

land of fortified dwellings.

17 It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood

The significance of the dwelling is in the dweller.

God has two dwellings: one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live.

The slum is as old as civilization.

The mind is a faculty, and a magnificent one at that. But the heart is the dwelling place of our true beliefs.

Noblemen are almost the only people who can teach you as much as peasants; their conversation is adorned with everything that concerns the land, dwellings as people used to live in them in the past, old customs, everything about which the moneyed world is profoundly ignorant.

The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.

And finally, apartments for the most part fit the bill as "short-term temporary housing," just a notch above a hotel or motel. Yes, we can find folks who live in an apartment for years; but most tenants are short-termers and move more frequently than those who take up residence in a house.

Housing without people, and people without housing.

said. "I would ask him to build another dwelling, just for you, and to take more care." He turned away, dismissing me, and said, partly over his shoulder, "You should know I have a moran's name now. I am arap Ruta." —

Do not light a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day.”

He felled them in the midst of their camp, all around their dwellings.

Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In His wrath He has demolished the fortified cities of the Daughter of Judah. He brought to the ground and defiled her kingdom and its princes.