House Building Quotes

I bought some land in Portugal, on the highest hill in Guimaraes, because I pictured that I wanted to build my house there. I said, 'What a perfect place this would be,' but I forgot to ask the council if I could build a house there. When I did, they said, 'No!'

As we double our numbers ... we must double our houses.

There are a couple things that I could be doing, maybe owning a coffee shop or work in construction, building houses back in Nashville or British Columbia. I've also thought about being a property owner which would give me income and allow me to fix and maintain those properties to keep me busy.

When I left the work world, I started designing my dream house. I dived into architecture and bought seven vacant lots. My plan was to build one house, move in, and build the next. If the next was better, I'd move in and sell the previous one - so on and so forth.

I like to build houses.

I remember listening to my first World Cup in 1966. I was with my parents, helping them build our house and listening to it on the radio. We still didn't have a TV back then, but fortunately the first time I listened to a World Cup Jose Maria Munoz was commentating, and he's one of the best there is.

'Namukku Parkkaan' is a family drama that plots the story of a couple's struggles to build a house of their own. The character I play is every man's dream wife, one who supports her husband through thick and thin.

I've been working with contractors designing and building a house on a nonstop basis since 2005. I learned about all these systems of audio, construction, electricity, energy, water systems.

I like interior decorating. I really like to build houses. And landscaping, I like that.

Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials.

I'll always build houses.

I could build and roof a house, though electricity is not my thing.

Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.

One must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in.

Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.

Few of the early houses in New England were painted, or colored, as it was called, either without or within. Painters do not appear in any of the early lists of workmen.

But then architects don't build their own houses.

You need a blueprint to build a house because you need to know how far the concrete is going to be poured and you need to know how think the walls have to be.

Like building a house, travel always costs more than you estimate.

I've built two wooden houses near Vals. I built them for my wife. Those were private projects.

He who overlooks a healthy spot for the site of his house is mad and ought to be handed over to the care of his relations and friends.

I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only.

I was always told you're not going to make much money from writing. You can actually do it. Now I've built a really good, big house out of words.

In the construction of houses, choice of woods is made. Straight un-knotted timber of good appearance is used for the revealed pillars, straight timber with small defects is used for the inner pillars. Timbers of the finest appearance, even if a little weak, is used for the thresholds, lintels, doors, and sliding doors, and so on. Good strong timber, though it be gnarled and knotted, can always be used discreetly in construction.

Fueled by the kindness and generosity of strangers, 'Food for the Poor' builds houses for people.