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Quotes About House

My place in Chicago is a 105 year old house, but I really like contemporary spaces too, so it's refreshing and fun to be in a space where you can do contemporary things.
~ Ted Allen
Mum was always hard-working. She came over from Spain and bought her own council house.
~ Anton du Beke
This body is the house of God.
~ Kamand Kojouri
I was tired of being a haunted house' he said. 'Thank you for coming home.
~ Mira Grant, Blackout
He fell in love with her house and land, He fell in love with her pension plan, He worked his way to her lonely heart, He was quite wily from the very start.
~ Charmaine J. Forde
Life always seems to have worries, even if you own a big and beautiful house on the best street in town.
~ Natalie Babbitt
The house was so proud of itself that you wanted to make a lot of noise as you passed, and maybe even throw a rock or two.
~ Natalie Babbitt
This was a freedom essential to the health even of a character so little susceptible of morbid influences as that of Phoebe. The old house [with dry rot in its structure and perhaps also in its inhabitants];...it was not good to breathe no other atmosphere that that.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorn
HALFWAY down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Isn't it true that a pleasant house makes winter more poetic, and doesn't winter add to the poetry of a house?
~ Charles Baudelaire
Or poking through a house, in closets shut for years, Full of the scent of time - acrid, musky, dank, One comes, perhaps, upon a flask of memories In whose escaping scent a soul returns to life. - The Flask
~ Charles Baudelaire
Cats All ardent lovers and all sages prize, —As ripening years incline upon their brows— The mild and mighty cats—pride of the house— That like unto them are indolent, stern and wise.
~ Charles Baudelaire
I felt that even the sun belonged to my father, that I had no right to it because it was shining upon my father's house. I was like his roses, something that belonged to him and not to me.
~ Charles Bukowski
In his house," intoned the congregation, "He shall return, that dead lies dreaming.
~ Charles Stross
Well this is aptly called a junket, for both of us. I have never been to a house of prostitution, but I understand that you get in more than seven minutes.
~ Dustin Hoffman
The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.
~ Caleb Cushing
I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
~ Captain Beefheart
The campaigns and the models in them create the fantasy around the brand. It has always been about having strong images. Without that, we could not have gone into all the categories we did. It really has been the foundation from where the house of Guess was built.
~ Paul Marciano
I must hurry back to my house and my flowers in Monaco.
~ Lillie Langtry
I grew up in Flagstaff, and I still own my old family house up there, so I go up there a couple of times a month just to sit for a day or two and work without any kind of interruption, and I usually take a dinner break, and I'll watch two hours of DVD.
~ Diana Gabaldon
My girlfriend and I rented a nice house on the river and I was there for about two and a half months, and we were just out of Alabama. I hardly got to see Alabama.
~ Albert Finney
You want to know what's really exciting? In Montreal, it's called a Patrick Cote house party.
~ Matt Serra
I think there's part of me that's longing to play a Sherlock Holmes or sort of a House character, like a real detective. Like a real, moody detective. Like a real, sarcastic, mentally ill detective. I think it would be really fun to do something like that.
~ Janet Varney
Whatever people's backgrounds or values, a society where more and more people face a daily struggle to house, clothe and even feed themselves and their families cannot possibly be the answer.
~ Emily Thornberry