H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“House plants die
with overwater, overlove.
Only when I stepped back,
the entire garden began to grow.”
“House prices have risen by nearly 25 percent over the past two years. Although speculative activity has increased in some areas, at a national level these price increases largely reflect strong economic fundamentals.”
“House prices just soared beyond - beyond reason in many places and they got financed in silly ways, and people lied about loans, all kinds of accesses entered into it. But that is what - that is the single biggest cause of why we're here.”
“House Republican leaders voted more than 300 times to undermine environmental safeguards since 2011, but almost none of these measures became law because Americans pushed back.”
“House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?”
“House Republicans want to pass a strong border security, illegal immigration bill. We want a bill. There is no ifs, ands or buts about it.”
“House rule number nine. No roach shall drink or eat out of the good cups in the kitchen. The plastic cups are in the pantry.”
Source: Teen Roach
“HOUSE RULES [at the Praetor Lupus Headquarters] No shape-shifting in the hallways. No howling. No silver. Clothing must be worn at all times. ALL TIMES. No fighting. No biting. Mark all your food before you put it in the communal refrigerator.”
“House Speaker John Boehner said the Republican Party will no longer stand in the way of gay marriage. Then Boehner said, 'Now can I go to Elton John's Oscar party?'”
“House Speaker John Boehner says President Obama should have clearly outlined his exact plans before bombing Libya. Apparently it's only Iraq where you don't have to do that.”
“House Speaker Pelosi worried about the opposition, the tone of it, perhaps leading to violence as it did in the 70s. Theres more recent examples of anti-government violence - occurring even in the mid-90s. Do you worry about that?”
“House speaker Thomas read could see the trend, but he could not have changed himself.”
Source: The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
“House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.”
“House-watching is an art. You have to develop a way of seeing how a building sits in its landscape or streetscape. You have to discover how much room it takes up in the world, how much of the world it displaces.”
“House, rap, R&B, disco rock, they are all part of hip-hop culture. Why you ain't playing Kraftwerk along with Jay-Z? That's hip-hop.”
“House-training, I must tell you, is a formality that can elude young dachshunds for some time; this is particularly true in climates that affront their sensibilities with outrageous meteorological insults. Rain, for example, or a startling gust of wind.”
“Household hollowness comes around in irregular cycles, like meteor showers. But the true sign of a bad patch is that it never feels temporary or fixable. It has a shudder of the inevitable to it. The thought crosses your mind that when love goes it goes all at once, and forever.”
“Household life is crowded and dusty; life gone forth is wide open... Suppose I shave off my hair and beard, put on the ochre robe, and go forth from the home life into homelessness.”
“Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking it's passage for some reason.”
Source: The Virgin Suicides: A Novel
“Household Work Is Everybody's Business - Figure It Out Yourself.”
Source: The Slynx
“Households and businesses cut expenses every day. Passing a financial down payment alongside the debt limit sends the right message to the public, and gives members of Congress greater comfort, or cover, depending on your perspective.”
“Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.”
Source: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating
“Households, cities, countries and nations have enjoyed great happiness, when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such men not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.”
“Housekeepers, homemakers, wives, and mothers are fundamental social relations, which rest upon woman's characteristics, physical, mental, and moral.”
“Housekeeping ain't no joke.”
“Housekeeping in common is for women the acid test.”
Source: ARIEL THE LIFE OF SHELLEY
“Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house”
“Houseless: Having paid all taxes on household goods.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Houses - the dark side silhouetted on flashes of moonlight!”
Source: The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams
“Houses are built brick-by-brick. HOMEs are built word-by-word. Houses don't build themselves. So YOU must build your home.”
“Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.”
“Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's.”
Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules
“Houses are for private living, for friends, and for dogs.”
“Houses are full of things that gather dust”
“Houses are fundamental metaphors for self, world, permeability, transition, interiority, exteriority, multiplicity, and the power to move from one state of being to another.”
“Houses are like books: so many of them around you, yet you only look at a few and visit or reside in fewer still.”
“Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love.”
Source: The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more
“Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.”
“Houses are not haunted. We are haunted, and regardless of the architecture with which we surround ourselves, our ghosts stay with us until we ourselves are ghosts.”
“Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.”
Source: Self-portrait
“Houses are the abiding joys; they are the most emotion-stirring of all things. An automobile is regarded with fond affection, a typewriter becomes the inseparable companion, clothes can stir sentimentality, and the bit of bric-a-brac is a toy one would weep to see torn away - but houses are real, deep, emotional things. How much excitement in the cutting of a window, what enormous importance in the angle of a roof!”
“Houses aren't refuges from history. They are where history ends up.”
“Houses built on bridges are scandals. A bridge wants to not be. If it could choose its shape, a bridge would be no shape, an unspace to link One-place-town to Another-place-town over a river or a road or a tangle of railway tracks or a quarry, or to attach an island to another island or to the continent from which it strains. The dream of a bridge is of a woman standing at one side of a gorge and stepping out as if her job is to die, but when her foot falls it meets the ground right on the other side. A bridge is just better than no bridge but its horizon is gaplessness, and the fact of itself should still shame it. But someone had built on this bridge, drawn attention to its matter and failure. An arrogance that thrilled me.”
Source: This Census-Taker
“Houses have their own ways of dying, falling as variously as the generations of men, some with a tragic roar, some quietly, but to an after-life in the city of ghosts, while from others—and thus was the death of Wickham Place—the spirit slips before the body perishes . . . By September it was a corpse, void of emotion, and scarcely hallowed by the memories of thirty years of happiness.”
Source: Howards End
“Houses, he supposed, like human personalities, contained anomalous corners that refused to fit in with the rest of the general pattern. In her housekeeping habits Nora was like a brutal serial murderer who nevertheless when to Mass every morning and never forgot her mother's birthday.”
“Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own”
Source: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
“Houses, like people, have their own peculiarities.”
Source: A World Away: A Memoir of Mervyn Peake
“Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.”
Source: The House: Its Origins and Evolution
“Houses of Congress have . . . requested me to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the many signal favors of Almighty God.”
Source: The Writings of George Washington: pt. V. Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses
“Houses of evil similarity appeared like rows of disciplined, humiliated orphans.”