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Quotes About Residence

Something forever watchful has taken up residence in his eyes.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
For some reason altogether beyond our conception - and man may have been a mere accident, a by-product evolved in the process. It is as if the scum upon the surface of the ocean imagined that the ocean was created in order to produce and sustain it or a mouse in a cathedral thought that the building was its own proper ordained residence.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Whenever the elderly have had the financial means, they have chosen what social scientists have called "intimacy at a distance." Whereas in early-twentieth-century America 60 percent of those over age sixty-five resided with a child, by the 1960s the proportion had dropped to 25 percent. By 1975 it was below 15 percent. The pattern is a worldwide one.
~ Atul Gawande
Joven abogado, Vladimir Ulianov-Lenin residía a inicios de los años noventa del siglo XIX en Samara, capital de una de las provincias más afectadas por el hambre de 1891. Fue el único representante de la intelligentsia local que no solamente no participó en la ayuda social a los hambrientos, sino que se pronunció categóricamente en contra de la misma.
~ Stéphane Courtois
At least three foreign ambassadors—the Dutch, the Portuguese and the Finnish—lived at the Dakota along with the French Minister of Cultural Affairs. There had been the distinguished Schirmers and Steinways.
~ Stephen Birmingham
When you own a piano, it's harder to think about moving.
~ Stephen King
I love the place that I live, but I hate the people in charge.
~ Immortal Technique
As much as Jefferson loved France residence abroad gave him greater appreciation for his own nation. He was a tireless advocate for things American while abroad, and a promoter of things European while at home. Moving between two worlds, translating the best of the old into the new and explaining the benefits of the new to the old, he created a role for himself as both intermediary and arbiter.
~ Jon Meacham
Prop. II. There are many mansions in the house of God. By many mansions is meant many seats or places of abode.
~ Jonathan Edwards
La diferencia estriba en lo pasajero y permanente frente a lo transitorio y estable: lo primero aparece y desaparece; lo segundo tiene residencia fija.9
~ Enrique Rojas
imagina que no es un vagabundo como todos los otros, debido a que tiene casa, un hogar estable, donde, eso sí, también vagabundea.
~ Enrique Vila-Matas
My home is in Chicago, but I have an apartment in Los Angeles.
~ Bonnie Hunt
My home in Adelaide was the Adina Hotel.
~ Miriam Margolyes
Some people say it's sad living in a hotel, but I'd rather be living in an hotel than living in an house on my own.
~ Gareth Thomas
I'm in between homes right now, but my last house was dope.
~ Method Man
I'm not really into houses, well other than I'd just like to have somewhere to live.
~ Chris Harris
I really love houses.
~ Courteney Cox
I've got four houses in my street. I live in two, and the others are empty. I'll buy more as they come up, because I think it would be great to have the entire street.
~ Hugh Grant
I love houses. I'm not sure why.
~ Stephen A. Schwarzman
I see the human body as your soul's apartment.
~ Carmen Carrera
Prince decided to move from Minneapolis to Toronto. Jimmy Jam told me that they were living there now.
~ Rick Dees
Hello?" "Ah, is this the ... Bow-shawmp residence?" There was no trace of a Texas twang in the caller's accent, nor anything of the South. "Beech-um, yes, that's us. Sorry." "Ah, yeah. Beech-um? Okay.
~ Sean Stewart
The sun was setting on Coruscant. Shadows ran like black water, filling up the the alleys first, then climbing steadily higher, a tide of darkness rising to drown the capital. Twilight's gloom spread over retail districts and medcenters, and crept like a dark stain up the walls of the Chancellor's residence as the sun slipped below the horizon. Soon only the rooftops were gilded with the day's last yellow light; then the shadows conquered them, too, swarming up
~ Sean Stewart
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
~ Seneca