Robert Rinder Quotes

Everything I own has some significance to me.

My mother kept every single thing that she ever got in her life.

I'm not going to get rid of my house in Vegas. I love that house.

Homes are filled with who you are, as opposed to things.

For all the huffing and puffing of the doubters, a home of our own is still the rock on which our hopes are built. Price appreciation aside (and most houses will appreciate, eventually), homeownership is a state of mind. It's your piece of the earth. It's where a family's toes grow roots. It's where the flowers are yours, not God's.

Everything we own tells too much about us.

Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them.

Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows.

The American dream is still to own your home.

I'm not interested in owning a bunch of driveways.

Part of the American dream is to own your own property - something no one can take from you.

The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.

The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.

I knew I was going to lose my house in Ireland and all the other properties. It's all gone. But my house was the one material thing that was very important to me.

It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.

It's a very weird thing. When you see your house naked, you feel very protective of it and of the people who lived here before.

I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way.

I'm in the process of convincing my parents to sell me their house so I can just live in my childhood bedroom forever. I figure it might make me age slower.

The notion that paradise begins with personal home ownership is one that has been drummed into Americans for so long by presidents … and realtors that it is hard to dislodge.

Property is proper to man.

I didn't grow up in a house - we moved a lot, and we always lived in apartments. But we looked a lot; we went to open houses almost every weekend. I think that's why I always wanted a house.

I started thinking about this truck and why do I still have this same truck? After all of these years, why am I holding on to that? I just starting thinking about other things: guitars, boots and jeans. I just had a tendency to hold on to the things that have meaning to me.

My husband calls me 'throwy-outy' - he's horrified at how easily I dispense with things. People I won't let go of, but things, mementos from shows, I'm not particularly attached to.

It'd be nice to settle down in a great home instead of just moving around and stuff like that.

The only thing I've ever bought with the money I've made is my house.