Quotes About Homestead

most old farmhouses were built like that.

Grampa an' the old place, they was jus' the same thing.

we're gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an' a cow and some pigs

We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food.

Grandma Hutto's flower garden was a bright patchwork quilt thrown down inside the pickets.

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Have you thought about the evolutionary psychology of it? Men have evolved to be strong worker homestead-keepers, while women—with babies to protect from harm—have had to become aggressive and violent. The few partial patriarchies that have ever existed in human society have been very peaceful places.

The bailiff tucked the jurors into their windowless room where they could surf for porn on their PDAs, and the judge turned to me. "Mr. Lassiter, Ah assume you got some legal mumbo jumbo for the record." His Honor came from a family of gentleman farmers in Homestead by way of Kentucky, and his voice rippled with bourbon and branch water.

For the fortified city lies deserted—a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.