Quotes on Houses

You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.

We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways.

Author: Edward Coke

Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys.

Author: Christopher Columbus

If you look across the valley, you can see exactly what I mean: about four beautiful houses, and you think something is happening in each of them. It's like a mural.

Author: Jilly Cooper

I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone.

Author: Bobby Darin

I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills.

Author: Ranulph Fiennes

Nothing of the kind; they do all these things in their houses and sheds, with common charcoal fires, and a quantity of straw to stop up the crevices in the doors and windows.

Author: Robert Fortune

We all came from houses with doors, doors that were supposed to be closed when there were things going on that we weren't supposed to see, and when our pants were down.

Author: Lynette Fromme

The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor.

Author: Stephen Gardiner

In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive.

Author: Stephen Gardiner

The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.

Author: Stephen Gardiner

Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights.

Author: Stephen Gardiner

In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.

Author: Stephen Gardiner

I got a bit enamoured with bigger houses and things like that.

Author: John Hewson

I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number.

Author: Robert Indiana

Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we lost? Two hundred thousand.

Author: Mary Landrieu

I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others.

Author: Lillie Langtry

In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds.

Author: William Lilly

You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.

Author: Archibald MacLeish

If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

Author: William Morris

Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves.

Author: Ernest Poole

We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent.

Author: John Prescott

We are making the fundamental changes. It was like the decent housing target. We said by 2010, we'd have taken a million houses and refurbished them into decent housing.

Author: John Prescott

All houses are haunted. All persons are haunted. Throngs of spirits follow us everywhere. We are never alone.

Author: Barney Sarecky

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

Author: Henry Thoreau

Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.

Author: Gene Tierney

Some members of both Houses have, it is true, been removed from their employments under the Crown; but were they ever told, either by me or by any other of his majesty's servants, that it was for opposing the measures of the administration in Parliament?

Author: Robert Walpole

After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded.

Author: Ethel Waters

I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink.

Author: Timothy West

There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals.

Author: Vladimir Zhirinovsky

Quotes on Houses

You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways.

Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys.

If you look across the valley, you can see exactly what I mean: about four beautiful houses, and you think something is happening in each of them. It's like a mural.

I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone.

I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills.

Nothing of the kind; they do all these things in their houses and sheds, with common charcoal fires, and a quantity of straw to stop up the crevices in the doors and windows.

We all came from houses with doors, doors that were supposed to be closed when there were things going on that we weren't supposed to see, and when our pants were down.

The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor.

In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive.

The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.

Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights.

In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.

I got a bit enamoured with bigger houses and things like that.

I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number.

Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we lost? Two hundred thousand.

I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others.

In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds.

You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.

If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves.

We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent.

We are making the fundamental changes. It was like the decent housing target. We said by 2010, we'd have taken a million houses and refurbished them into decent housing.

All houses are haunted. All persons are haunted. Throngs of spirits follow us everywhere. We are never alone.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.

Some members of both Houses have, it is true, been removed from their employments under the Crown; but were they ever told, either by me or by any other of his majesty's servants, that it was for opposing the measures of the administration in Parliament?

After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded.

I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink.

There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals.