Houses Quotes

If we allow the Jews to have dwellings amongst us, why should we not allow them to have synagogs [houses of worship]?

Our Indian neighbors are advancing, many of them with spirit, and others beginning to engage in the pursuits of agriculture and household manufacture. They are becoming sensible that the earth yields subsistence with less labor and more certainty than the forest.

The value of lands and houses is the best estimate of the wealth of a nation.

Building houses and mansion ranching is not ranching.

Sometimes one feels that it would be merciful to tear down these houses, for they must often dream.

I had a paper route when I was a kid. I was supposed to go to 2,000 houses. Or two dumpsters.

Old houses, I thought, do not belong to people ever, not really, people belong to them.

We have discovered a land rich in gold, pearls, and other things … There are in the city many large and beautiful houses … and pleasant gardens …. Two great aqueducts made of mortar … The people are dressed with elegance and [have a ] courtly bearing …. Considering that these people are barbarous, lacking knowledge of God and communication with other civilized nations, it is remarkable to see all that they have.

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

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.

They---the northern states---will never consent, that a slave-owner, his agent, or an officer of the United States, armed with process to arrest a fugitive from service, is clothed with entire immunity from state authority; to commit whatever crime or outrage against the laws of the state; that their own high prerogative writ of habeas corpus shall be annulled, their authority defied, their officers resisted, the process of their own courts contemned, their territory invaded by federal force, the houses of their citizens searched, the sanctuary or their homes invaded, their streets and public places made the scenes of tumultuous and armed violence, and state sovereignty succumb--paralyzed and aghast--before the process of an officer unknown to the constitution and irresponsible to its sanctions. At least, such shall not become the degradation of Wisconsin, without meeting as stern remonstrance and resistance as I may be able to interpose, so long as her people impose upon me the duty of guarding their rights and liberties, and maintaining the dignity and sovereignty of their state.

The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture.

A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight lines. It gives an indication of the character at the heart of it.

I like cars and houses. I have three houses - in Atlanta, in Kansas City and Houston.

Two or three times a week, I drive by the houses of numbers 78-100 just to rub it in.

There were no less than twenty thousand shops in Cairo, all of which belong to the sultan (al-Mustansir). Many shops are rented for as much as ten dinars a month, and none for less than two. There is no end of caravanserais, bathhouses and other public buildings - all property of the sultan, for no one owns any property except houses and what he himself builds….In the midst of the houses in the city are gardens and orchards watered by wells. In the sultan's harem are the most beautiful gardens imaginable. Water-wheels have been constructed to irrigate these gardens. There are trees planted and pleasure parks built even on the roofs …. All the houses of Cairo are built separate one from another, so that no one's trees or outbuildings are against anyone else's walls. Cairo has four cathedral mosques where men pray on Fridays.

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.

Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples.

I think of houses as having their own personality.

As a kid, I liked building a lot of Legos and built houses and did some fun stuff with that.

I don't like being in houses alone.

I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.

I grew up doing some landscaping and painting houses and that kind of thing.

It has pleased God to show man the way to proect his home from lightening.

Then I perceived, what I had never thought, that all these staring houses were not alike, but different one from another, because they held different dreams.