H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Houses, trees and fields of flax once flourished here. Summers had been blue with flowers. Now it was a shallow sea of stinking grey from end to end. And this is where you fought the war.”
Source: The wars
“Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.”
“Houses were knocked down; streets broken through and stopped; deep pits and trenches dug in the ground; enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped by great beams of wood. In short, the yet unfinished and unopened Railroad was in progress.”
“Houses without personality are a series of walled enclosures with furniture standing around in them. Other houses are filled with things of little intrinsic value, even with much that is shabby and yet they have that inviting atmosphere.”
“Houses! I hate houses. I like public places. Houses break your heart.”
Source: My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles
“Houses, like faces, hide all kinds of memories.”
Source: Angel Fire
“Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own; this house was the architectural equivalent of an old gentleman in a worn dressing-gown and torn slippers, who got up and went to bed at odd times of day, and who kept up a continual conversation with friends no one else could see.”
Source: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
“Houses, like people, have personalities, and, like the personalities of people, they are partly molded by all that has happened to them.”
Source: It Takes All Kinds
“Housetops were covered with 'gazers'; all wharves that offered a view were jammed with people ... As British officers happily reminded one another, it was the largest fleet ever seen in American waters. In fact it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century, the largest, most powerful force ever sent forth by Britain or any other nation.”
“Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.”
“Housewives of the 1950s were supposed to create show-stopping meals every night for their hard-working husbands.”
“Housewives spend more money than their husbands make, so that other people think their husbands earn more money than they really do.”
“Housework can kill you if done right.”
“Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?”
Source: Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy
“Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it's increasingly girls, not boys, who don't know how to read.”
“Housework, handicrafts, subsistence agriculture, radical technology, learning exchanges, and the like are degraded into activities for the idle, the unproductive, the very poor, or the very rich. A society that fosters intense dependence on commodities thus turns its unemployed into either its poor or its dependents.”
“Housework hassles go on, are never resolved, and will probably extend into the afterlife ('Why am I the one who takes the clouds to the dry cleaners?').”
“Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.”
“Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.”
“Housework is like bad sex. Every time I do it I swear I will never do it again. Until the next time company comes.”
“Housework is like cleaning fish. No matter how often you do it, it still stinks.”
“Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.”
Source: Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier
“Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.”
“Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.”
Source: Woman's work: the housewife, past and present
“Housework won't kill you, but then again, why take the chance?”
“Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it.”
Source: Show Boat ; So Big ; Cimarron: Three Living Novels of American Life
“Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.”
“Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.”
“Housing affects everything, and we continue to live in very, very segregated communities.”
“Housing associations have fingered the fact that they cannot use their assets as liquidity due to Bank of England rules unlike their continental equivalents. This has emerged to be one of the main bottlenecks to getting investment going in the U.K. It is a Bank of England issue.”
“Housing associations must view accessibility not as an optional feature, but as an essential obligation to ensure that persons with disabilities have equal opportunities in every aspect of life in the community.”
Source: Understanding Accessibility
“Housing goes hand-in-hand with renting and when I mention the word rent you already know that taxation is involved too.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“Housing has always been a key to Great Resets. During the Great Depression and New Deal, the federal government created a new system of housing finance to usher in the era of suburbanization. We need an even more radical shift in housing today. Housing has consumed too much of our economic resources and distorted the economy. It has trapped people who are underwater on their mortgages or can't sell their homes. And in doing so has left the labor market unable to flexibly adjust to new economic realities.”
“Housing has led our nation's economic expansion over the past few years, accounting for 16 percent of our Gross Domestic Product. New housing starts and home sales hit record levels from 2003 through 2005.”
“Housing in New York City has become too expensive for many average wage earners, let alone people with marginal incomes, who find themselves displaced to far-flung neighborhoods or to the streets. Racist discrimination in housing, which has been around for decades and follows centuries of slavery, has exacerbated the housing affordability crisis for people of color.”
“Housing in New York seemed to fit Norman Lear. In addition, his shows confronted all kinds of social issues - racial separation and prejudice being foremost among them. The Evans of Good Times were the first black family to be the focus of a primetime American TV show. A lot of the people we came across in filming were familiar with the role Norman played in catalyzing important national conversations about race. They seemed grateful to him for trying to move the needle.”
“Housing is a human right. There can be no fairness or justice in a society in which some live in homelessness, or in the shadow of that risk, while others cannot even imagine it.”
Source: Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six
“Housing is a key factor in any society that can’t be ignored, if the leader truly cares about the health and mental wellbeing of the population.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“Housing is out of reach to the masses!”
“Housing is where it all begins. Where you live determines everything from where you shop for food, to how safe your neighborhood is, to your kids' school, to whether you're exposed to toxic chemicals on a daily basis. And as a New Yorker, I found it impossible not to notice and be bothered by the huge number of homeless people in the city, as well as by the segregation and gentrification that's all around you.”
“Housing owner associations must shed their deep-seated biases and focus their efforts on creating an accessible community where persons with disabilities can participate fully and equally.”
Source: Understanding Accessibility
“Housing owner associations need to put aside long-held discriminatory attitudes and concentrate on ensuring that persons with disabilities have equal opportunities to engage in all aspects of community life.”
Source: Understanding Accessibility
“Housing owners' associations need to ensure that persons with disabilities can join in all social and cultural events in the community, just like everyone else by facilitating accessibility.”
Source: Understanding Accessibility
“Housing was ground zero for the Great Recession. Between early 2006 and Obama's inauguration in 2009, average house prices fell by a third across the country. In certain areas, including cities as diverse as Akron, Orlando and Las Vegas, house prices fell by more than half.”
“Housing without people, and people without housing.”
“Housing Works is the coolest thrift store in the world, because not only are they the best thrift store - they're not the most thrifty thrift store - but they have amazing stuff and all of their proceeds go directly to kids, mostly homeless kids, living with AIDS and HIV in New York, in the metropolitan area.”
“Housing, it's not a plaything. It's not something that you can just play around with. It is, I believe, the rubric of family. It is the glue for a healthy community. And to have someone that really wants to dismantle any government involvement in making sure that every community has access to that is very scary. We should be worried.”
“Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on, but and absolutely marvellous minor poet, I think, and a great scholar.”
“Houston Alexander is for real!”
“Houston has its largest crowd of the night here this evening.”