House Quotes
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Work a lifetime to pay off a house - You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it.
Arthur Miller
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I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmother's since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years.
Penelope Lively
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When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.
Maurice Sendak
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This house I grew up in was built in the 1800s, and the back yard was like a cemetery. Naturally, I grew up in an environment where ghosts and supernatural things were very unnerving to me, because my brothers and I dealt with it on a daily basis.
Adam Wingard
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I crank up the music, and I dance around the house.
Christie Brinkley
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I was brought up on Dickens. I remember reading 'Bleak House' but, coming back to it, I didn't remember much about it apart from a few characters.
Burn Gorman
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House music originated in America, and it has always been around, but I guess it just got a tighter hold on Europe and other parts of the world.
Avicii
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A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
Bram Stoker
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I don't want to make just tropical house. I want to make everything, just like, whatever I feel like making.
Kygo
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My wife has to be the worst cook. In my house, we pray after we eat.
Jack Roy
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Filming is like a house, you have to feel comfortable in it.
Luc Dardenne
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My wife being a trainer helps, because when I'm at home, everything we keep at the house is pretty healthy.
James Denton
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George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower all rode their wartime heroics into the White House.
Jeff Greenfield
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House-training, I must tell you, is a formality that can elude young dachshunds for some time; this is particularly true in climates that affront their sensibilities with outrageous meteorological insults. Rain, for example, or a startling gust of wind.
Mary Doria Russell
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I've stayed in houses that were in the country, and in England, but I'm still not sure that I've stayed in an English country house.
Lev Grossman
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I like to greet anyone who comes to my house with a lot of positivity and peace.
Adnan Sami
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The camel is an ugly animal, seen from above. Its shoulders slope formless like a sack, its silly little ears and fluff of bleached curls behind them have a respectable, boarding-house look, like some faded neatness that dresses for propriety but never dressed for love.
Freya Stark
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It's funny, but have you ever noticed that the more special something is, the more people seem to take it for granted? It's like they think it won't ever change. Just like this house here. All it ever needed was a little attention, and it would never have ended up like this in the first place.
Nicholas Sparks
