A Quotes
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“A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.”
Source: The Little Minister (Illustrated Edition)
“A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. For human beings are not so constituted that they can live without expansion. If they do not get it in one way, they must in another, or perish.”
Source: Woman in the nineteenth century: and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition and duties of woman
“A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.”
“A house is not a home until it has a dog.”
Source: Best dog stories
“A house is not a home without a cat.”
“A house is not a home.”
“A house is not a machine to live in. It is the shell of man, his extension, his release, his spiritual emanation.”
“A house is not defined by how many rooms or stories it has. I always judge a place by what kind of energies it gives off.”
Source: Walk Your Path: A Magical Awakening
“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.”
“A house is your third skin, after the skin made of flesh and clothing.”
Source: Visitation
“A house isn’t built from walls, but from the emotions it dares to hold.”
“A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion.”
Source: EMILY STAR - Complete Trilogy: Emily of New Moon + Emily Climbs + Emily's Quest: Classic of Children's Literature
“A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.
“A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they've had since time began.”
Source: Practicalities
“A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.”
“A house—No matter how big or historic—does not make a home.”
Source: The Baby Pact
“A house o' women is as dead as a house wi' no fire, to my thinkin'. I'm not a spider as likes to corner myself. I like a man about, if he's only something to snap at.”
Source: D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)
“A House of My Own
Not a flat. Not an apartment in back. Not a man's house. Not a daddy's. A house all my own. With my porch and my pillow, my pretty purple petunias. My books and my stories. My two shoes waiting beside the bed. Nobody to shake a stick at. Nobody's garbage to pick up after.
Only a house quiet as snow, a space for myself to go, clean as paper before the poem.”
“A house of which one knew every room wasn't worth living in.”
“A house on the verge of collapse does not tremble with fear just because a big storm is on the horizon! On the contrary, he waits silently, with the air of a confident commander, despite the overwhelmingly powerful enemy!”
“A house panel in Texas has approved full marijuana legalization for the state. Yeah, meaning Texas could go from having dude ranches to 'Dude, ranches.'”
“A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.”
“A house should look after itself - as the weather heats up the house cools down, as the weather cools down the house heats up. It's simple stuff, you know? We've known how to do it for a long time.”
“A house should look lived in, and I consider it clean as long as I don't stick to it and it doesn't give me cholera.”
Source: Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)
“A house should not be built so close to another that a chicken from one can lay an egg in the neighbor's yard, nor so far away that a child cannot shout to the yard of his neighbor.”
“A house takes on the character of its inhabitants; a homeowner takes on the characteristics of the house.”
“A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.”
“A house that has a library in it has a soul.”
“A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.”
Source: The Poetics of Space
“A house that is unheimlich is a house where you lose yourself, lose your way, literally or figuratively.”
Source: OASE 70: Architecture and Literature
“A house that lacks, seemingly, mistress and master,
With doors that none but the wind ever closes,
Its floor all littered with glass and with plaster;
It stands in a garden of old-fashioned roses.
I pass by that way in the gloaming with Mary;
'I wonder,' I say, 'who the owner of those is.'
'Oh, no one you know,' she answers me airy,
'But one we must ask if we want any roses.'
So we must join hands in the dew coming coldly
There in the hush of the wood that reposes,
And turn and go up to the open door boldly,
And knock to the echoes as beggars for roses.
'Pray, are you within there, Mistress Who-were-you?'
'Tis Mary that speaks and our errand discloses.
'Pray, are you within there? Bestir you, bestir you!
'Tis summer again; there's two come for roses.
'A word with you, that of the singer recalling--
Old Herrick: a saying that every maid knows is
A flower unplucked is but left to the falling,
And nothing is gained by not gathering roses.'
We do not loosen our hands' intertwining
(Not caring so very much what she supposes),
There when she comes on us mistily shining
And grants us by silence the boon of her roses.”
“A house though otherwise beautiful, yet if it hath no garden belonging to it, is more like a prison than a house.”
“A house turn into a home only when you put your soul in it!”
“A house with a great wine stored below lives in our imagination as a joyful house, fast and splendidly rooted in the soil.”
Source: The Egoist
“A house with a hearth keeps hands warm.
A home with love keeps the heart warm.”
“A house with many windows witnesses many stories! Witnessing many stories means a lot of wisdom! A house with many windows is a wise house!”
“A house with no fireplace is a house without a heart.”
Source: The book of Stillmeadow
“A house with old furniture has no need of ghosts to be haunted.”
Source: Lud-in-the-Mist
“A house without a cat is like a day without sunshine, a pie without fromage, a dinner without wine.”
“A house without a door and a door without a house can become a real house if and only if they are united!”
“A house without a roof would scarcely be a more different home, than a family unsheltered by God's friendship, and the sense of being always rested in His providential care and guidance.”
Source: Christian Nurture
“A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls”
“A house without books is like a room without windows.”
“A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.”
“A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.”
“A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people.”
“A house without love ain't a home.”
“A house without security cannot be a home!”
“A house you build with your hands, but an empire you build with your heart.”
“A house you can rebuild; a bridge you can restring; a washed-out road you can fill in. But there is nothing you can do about a tree but mourn.”
Source: We Took to the Woods