Quotes About House

I think there is status to having a house full of pretty things, to buying expensive paintings of seashells from her arty friends and spoons from Tiffany's.

The house was very quiet, and the fog—we are in November now—pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.

Round every knob and cushion in the house sentiment gathered, a sentiment that was at times personal, but more often a faint piety to the dead, a prolongation of rites that might have ended at the grave.

To them Howards End was a house; they could not know that to her it had been a spirit, for which she sought a spiritual heir.

Six forest trees — that is a fact — grow out of one of the graves in Tewin churchyard. The grave's occupant — that is the legend — is an atheist, who declared that if God existed, six forest trees would grow out of her grave. These things in Hertfordshire; and farther afield lay the house of a hermit — Mrs. Wilcox had known him — who barred himself up, and wrote prophecies, and gave all he had to the poor.

At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.

During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.

She is always optimistic and resourceful, a woman who, if cast ashore alone on a desert island, would build a house with a guest room.

Ham held the same rating as the basic black dress. If you had a ham in the meat house, any situation could be faced.

A house built on greed cannot long endure.

And he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!

I am grateful for the lawn that needs mowing, windows that need cleaning, and floors that need waxing because it means I have a home.

Some men have a den in their home, while others just growl all over the house.

So that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord.

Peace be to this house.

The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement.

There was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat.

Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.

Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars.

Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.