Steve Harvey Quotes

I like to build houses.

I liken myself to someone who built the house he will live in one day and is preparing to furnish it.

I still have a dream of one day - I would love to hire a semi-retired contractor and just build a house - him and I building a house for me. I would truly love to do that.

My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.

A housing renaissance has begun. This may be hard to believe after the dizzying, six-year-long crash in home sales, construction and house prices. But housing turned the corner last year, and it will take off in 2013.

Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family.

The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.

People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere.

Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.

Home wasn't built in a day.

I consider myself a D.I.Y. home improvement guy. In a prior life, I completely gutted a house - redid the plumbing, wiring, moved sewage pipes, knocked down walls, everything.

If you look at the Earth without architecture, it's sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter in the broadest sense of the word, whether it's a movie theater or a simple log cabin in the mountains. This is the core of architecture: To provide a space for human beings.

From Plymouth Rock to Puget Sound, the first priority of the men and women who settled this vast and blessed continent was to put a roof over the heads of their family. And that priority has never, and can never, change.

My home is in West Vancouver, B.C. My husband built it from drawings to design and colour.

I advise everyone to build a house at 19. It's such good practice.

I want to build a house in Indian Harbour, that's all.

I am a home builder. I have to be an optimist.

A good home must be made, not bought.

None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.

Build a house?" exclaimed John. "For the Wendy," said Curly. "For Wendy?" John said, aghast. "Why, she is only a girl!" "That," explained Curly, "is why we are her servants.

Two decades from now, I doubt that the home building industry, so called, will even exist as we have known it.

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.

I hope to build a house with my films. Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and some are the windows. But I hope in time there will be a house.

The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.

Bobby Martin has another project. He's building a house. He's out there at 6 o'clock in the morning hammering nails.