Quotessence
Home / Topics / House Quotes

House Quotes

Browse 9905 quotes about House.

Related topics

IfsPeopleWhiteWhite HouseThinkingKnowsMenWantHomeWayWorldYearsLittlesChildrenFirstsSaidLooksKidsWellsKindPresidentRoomsNeedsShouldTryingBigsCountryBookFeelsTwoI CanStillsCarGivingMadeMayHas BeensMeanMotherWritingDoorsNightLongFatherJobsWholeRealRunningParentUsedMindPersonsRememberDifferentTogetherHeartBelieveWould BeDoneShowsWantedBuildingBuiltThreeWifePartyEnoughStatesMovingStreetsArtDoeImportantPlayRepublicanSchoolDreamIdeasFactsFireMightSenateWalksGrewLeftWindowCareBeautifulGuyMomentsDogEndsLightCitiesGrew UpSometimesNiceFunnySeemsFrontsmore

House Quotes

“Many of life's decisions are hard. What kind of career should you pursue? Does your ailing mother need to be put in a nursing home? You and your spouse already have two kids; should you have a third?such decisions are hard for a number of reasons. For one the stakes are high. There's also a great deal of uncertainty involved. Above all, decisions like these are rare, which means you don't get much practice making them. You've probably gotten good at buying groceries, since you do it so often, but buying your first house is another thing entirely.”

NeedsShouldFirstsKindMeanDoeTwoHardReasonHomeKidsMotherHouseDecisionDealsNumbersCareersPracticeInvolvedThirdsPursueUncertaintyBuyingStakesSpouseNursingGroceriesNursing Home
Author:Steven Levitt
Create image

“How hard would it be to ask children what they see in their heads? How big should the house be in comparison to the family standing in front of it? What is it about the anatomy of the people that doesn't look right? Then let them try it again. Teach them to learn how to see and ask questions.”

PeopleShouldTryingLooksChildrenHardBigsAsksHouseTeachFrontsStandingComparisonAnatomy
Book:Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks
Create image

“The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaction and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilization. It is what we seek today.”

MenFeelsShouldWarSelfTodayCultureHouseIndividualCommunityCitiesStreetsCivilizationSafeMembersDignityAffectionSatisfactionNeighborEvery ManDawnCollectionsSelf RespectWarmthAmerican CitiesGreat SocietySelf Respect And Dignity
Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965
Create image

“One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted - One need not be a House - The Brain - has Corridors - surpassing Material Place - Far safer, of a Midnight - meeting External Ghost - Than an Interior - Confronting - That cooler - Host. Far safer, through an Abbey - gallop - The Stones a'chase - Than Moonless - One's A'self encounter - In lonesome place - Ourself - behind ourself - Concealed - Should startle - most.”

NeedsShouldSelfHouseBehindsBrainMaterialsStonesMeetingsGhostEncountersHostInteriorsMidnightChamberConcealedConfrontingCorridorsLonesomeSurpassingAbbey
Book:Dickinson
Create image

“You should not use your fireplace, because scientists now believe that, contrary to popular opinion, fireplaces actually remove heat from houses. Really, that's what scientists believe. In fact many scientists actually use their fireplaces to cool their houses in the summer. If you visit a scientist's house on a sultry August day, you'll find a cheerful fire roaring on the hearth and the scientist sitting nearby, remarking on how cool he is and drinking heavily.”

IfsShouldBelieveHeartFactsUseHouseOpinionFireSummerHumorousSittingScientistDrinkingContraryHeatRemoveCheerfulAugustRoaringPopular OpinionFireplaces
Book:All the Dave Barry you could ever want: four classic books in one from America's foremost humorist
Create image

“The houses of this country (Maharashtra) are exceedingly strong and built solely of stone and iron. The hatchet-men of the Govt. in the course of my marching do not get sufficient strength and power (i.e. time) TO DESTROY AND RAZE THE TEMPLES OF THE INFIDELS that meet the eye on the way. You should appoint an orthodox inspector (darogha) who may afterwards DESTROY THEM AT LEISURE AND DIG UP THEIR FOUNDATIONS”

MenWayShouldMayCountryEyeCoursesHouseStrongBuiltStonesFoundationSufficientTemplesIronOrthodoxLeisureInfidelInspectorsHatchetMaharashtra
Author:Aurangzeb
Create image

“It excites world wonder in the Parliamentary countries that we should build a Chamber, starting afresh, which can only seat two-thirds of its Members. It is difficult to explain this to those who do not know our ways. They cannot easily be made to understand why we consider that the intensity, passion, intimacy, informality and spontaneity of our Debates constitute the personality of the House of Commons and endow it at once with its focus and its strength.”

KnowsWorldWayShouldMadeTwoCountryPassionHouseDifficultWonderFocusPersonalityMembersThirdsStartingDebateIntimacySeatsIntensityChamberSpontaneityParliamentaryHouse Of CommonsInformality
Author:Winston Churchill
Create image

“When you have arrived at your country house and have saluted your household, you should make the rounds of the farm the same day, if possible; if not, then certainly the next day. When you have observed how the field work has progressed, what things have been done, and what remains undone, you should summon your overseer the next day, and should call for a report of what work has been done in good season and why it has not been possible to complete the rest, and what wine and corn and other crops have been gathered.”

IfsShouldHas BeensCountryDoneNextHouseFieldsSeasonsRemainsWineRoundsReportsFarmsHouseholdNext DayCornCropsUndoneCountry Houses
Book:Delphi Complete Works of Cato the Elder (Illustrated)
Create image

“As the architecture of a country always follows the earliest structures, American architecture should be a refinement of the log-house. The Egyptian is so of the cavern and the mound; the Chinese, of the tent; the Gothic, of overarching trees; the Greek, of a cabin.”

ShouldCountryHouseTreeStructureArchitectureChineseGreekGothicTentsRefinementEgyptianCabinsCaverns
Book:Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of
Create image

“Symons remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see him was the idea that they ought somehow, in the normal course of events, to have intuited long before they had finished their degrees, started families, bought houses and risen to the top of law firms - what they should properly be doing with their lives. They were tormented by a residual notion of having through some error or stupidity on their part missed out on their true calling.”

ShouldLongIdeasLawCoursesHouseCommonEventsOughtCallingDegreesNormalIllusionErrorsNotionStupidityFinishedFirmRisenResidualLaw Firms
Author:Alain de Botton
Create image

“Should a person on returning from the city discover his house to be in flames, let him examine well the change which he has received from the chair-carrier before it is too late; for evil never travels alone.”

ShouldWellsPersonsEvilHouseCitiesLateFlamesToo LateChairsCarrier
Book:THE KAI LUNG FANTASY SERIES: The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung's Golden Hours & Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat: The Transmutation of Ling, The Story of Yung Chang, The Probation of Sen Heng, The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Vengeance of Tung Fel and more
Create image

“I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They're sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they're hitting back and forth.”

ShouldGamesHouseSpaceWhiteSituationPolicyConcernedCongressAgencyWhite HouseOddsHittingBack And ForthNasaFuture DirectionShuttlecockHitting Back
Author:Neil Armstrong
Create image

“Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. To make victory certain, we would have to march into Washington and dictate the terms of peace in the White House. I wonder if our politicians, among whom armchair arguments about war are being glibly bandied about in the name of state politics, have confidence as to the final outcome and are prepared to make the necessary sacrifices.”

IfsShouldWarStatesEnoughCertainHouseNamesTermWhiteUnitedWonderBreakUnited StatesSacrificeVictoryPoliticianArgumentPreparedFinalsOutcomesJapanMarchWhite HouseHawaiiSan FranciscoHostilityHave ConfidenceBreak OutPhilippinesArmchairsGuam
Author:Isoroku Yamamoto
Create image

“Everything I loved had been dead for two centuries - or, as in the case of Graeco-Roman classicism, for two milenniums. I am never a part of anything around me - in everything I am an outsider. Should I find it possible to crawl backward through the Halls of Time to that age which is nearest my own fancy, I should doubtless be bawled out of the coffee-houses for heresy in religion, or else lampooned by John Dennis till I found refuge in the deep, silent Thames, that covers many another unfortunate.”

ShouldTwoAgeFoundHouseMy OwnCasesCenturySilentCoffeeFancyHallsOutsidersRefugeShould IUnfortunateHeresyThamesClassicismCoffee Houses
Author:H. P. Lovecraft
Create image

“It is quite clear from what has been said and written that, time after time after time, there has been a conspiracy between the Conservative Front Bench in this House and the inbuilt Conservative majority in the House of Lords to defeat legislation that has passed through the House of Commons... I warn the House of Lords of the consequences... it is our strong view that the House of Lords should recall that its role is not that of a wrecking chamber, but of a revising chamber. In recent weeks, it has been wrecking legislation passed by this House.”

ShouldHas BeensSaidHouseStrongViewsLordRolesClearWrittenWeekFrontsConsequenceMajorityDefeatConservativeConspiracyRecallsLegislationChamberBenchesHouse Of CommonsRevisingHouse Of Lords
Author:James Callaghan
Create image

“Worst damnfool mistake I ever made was letting myself be elected Vice President of the United States. Should have stuck with my old chores as Speaker of the House. I gave up the second most important job in the Government for one that didn't amount to a hill of beans. I spent eight long years as Mr. Roosevelt's spare tire.”

ShouldYearsLongMadeImportantStatesGovernmentJobsHousePresidentUnitedMistakeUnited StatesWorstShould HaveVicesStuckSpeakersSparesTireGave UpVice PresidentImportant Jobs
Author:John Nance Garner
Create image

“Young men, you who have any piety at all, what sort is it? Is it a hot-house plant, which must be framed and glassed, lest March, that bold young fellow, should shake the life out.of it in his rough play among the flowers? or is it a hardy shrub, which rejoices when the wild winds course along the heather or howl above the crest of Lebanon ' We need, believe me, the bravery of godliness to bear true witness for our Master now.”

MenNeedsShouldBelievePlayYoungCoursesHouseWindFlowerMastersBearsBraveryHotFellowsPlantWitnessYoung ManShakesMarchRoughRejoiceBelieve In MePietyGodlinessHowlFramedHardyLebanonShrubsHeathers
Book:Lectures and Sermons
Create image

“My greatest disappointment in all the projects I worked on during the White House years was the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment to be ratified. ... Why all the controversy and why such difficulty in giving women the protection of the Constitution that should have been theirs long ago?”

GivingShouldYearsLongHas BeensHouseWhiteRightsEqualProjectsShould HaveConstitutionDifficultyDisappointmentProtectionWhite HouseAmendmentsLong AgoWomens RightsControversyEqual RightsShould Have BeenEqual Rights Amendment
Author:Rosalynn Carter
Create image

“Visitors should conform as much as possible to the habits and customs of the house. They should be moderate in their demands for personal attendance. They should not carry their moods into the drawing-room or to the table, and, whether they are bored or not, should be ready to contribute as much as in their power to an atmosphere of pleasure. If the above involves too much self-sacrifice, then an invitation to visit should by no means be accepted.”

IfsShouldMeanSelfHousePleasureRoomsToo MuchSacrificeReadyHabitDemandTablesDrawingAcceptedMoodBoredAtmosphereCustomsConformHospitalityModeratesInvitationsVisitorsSelf SacrificeAttendanceSociability
Author:Elisabeth Marbury
Create image