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Quotes About House

One New Orleans officer who served with Graham commented, "Well, you can call him retired, but the feds like to know he's around. It's like having a king snake under the house. They may not see him much, but it's nice to know he's there to eat the moccasins.
~ Thomas Harris
Sometimes at night I would leave the lights on in my little house and walk across the flat fields. When I looked back from a distance, the house looked like a boat at sea. And all around me the vast Delta night.
~ Thomas Harris
What you probably don't know is that your neighbor in the $300,000 house next to yours bought his house only after he became wealthy. You bought yours in anticipation of becoming wealthy. That day may never come. Each
~ Thomas J. Stanley
In this city he kept house with his German mistress and maintained a long affair with his Polish secretary.
~ Thomas Keneally
The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear.
~ Thomas Merton
and men of science,' cries dixon, 'may be but the simple tools of others, with no more idea of what they are about, than a hammer knows of a house.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Was that how he'd died, she wondered, among dreams, crushed by the only ikon in the house?
~ Thomas Pynchon
The Samuel Josephs were not a family. They were a swarm. The moment you entered the house they cropped up and jumped out at you from under the tables, through the stair rails, behind the doors, behind the coats in the passage. Impossible to count them: impossible to distinguish between them.
~ Katherine Mansfield
To be a saint does not exclude fine dresses nor a beautiful house.
~ Katherine Tynan Hinkson
all of Scripture is about Bet Av—"The Father's House." God longs for every human being to come into His house and to know His love and care. It is only when we find our place in His family that we find joy and peace and salvation.
~ Kathie Lee Gifford
I love you, Shanna. I want you to share my life and that which belongs to me. I want to build you a mansion, as you father did for your mother, as my parents did here. I want to give you children, with dark hair and light, and watch them grow, bathed in our love. I have properties on the James. The land is good, and 'twill nourish our offsprings. It only waits your word to say where the house will be.
~ Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
Fancy – day after day of summer sunshine, in April. The house grows dusty and neglected because we spend so much time outdoors.
~ Kathleen Jamie
Whiteness of moonlight builds a house that is not there
~ Kathleen Raine
Alas, Max, this will pain you, I know, but you must realize the truth. There are movements far bigger than the men who make them up. As for me, I am a part of the movement. Heinrich is an officer in the boys' corps, which is headed by Baron Von Freische, whose rank is now shedding a luster upon our house, for he comes often to visit with Heinrich and Elsa, whom he much admires.
~ Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
behind the house had a bed-sitting room and bathroom. To
~ Kathy Cuddihy
musicians and microbreweries. The nineteenth-century Downton-Abbey-eat-your-heart-out Vanderbilt house.
~ Kathy Reichs
The main stairs were carpeted
~ Katie Flynn
In the dream house, the boy listened for the monster under his bed.
~ Keith Donohue
What kind of a house doesn't have salt? Low sodium freaks!
~ Keith R.A. DeCandido
In this way I make amends for the lack of a positive act by the clear knowledge of my incompetence. A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. They then dwell in the house next door, and at any moment a flame may dart out and set fire to his own house. Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.
~ C.G. Jung
the sky had cleared, and the sun swelled bright and warm in the western sky. Water from the melting snow dropped like strings of glass beads from the eaves of the house and melted holes in the snow on the ground. The sound of running water through the outside drainpipes sounded like music to Joe.
~ C.J. Box
Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.
~ Caleb Cushing
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. They then dwell in the house next door, and at any moment a flame may dart out and set fire to his own house. Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
What's the big story?" he asks. "We're slacker playboys with trust funds, renting a house on Isla Mujeres." "So, aside from the house, you're pretending to be you?
~ Gayle Forman