Quotation Explorer - 'Houses'

I’m not afraid of the darkness outside. It’s the darkness inside houses I don’t like. - Shelagh Delaney
It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down.It is not the houses. It is the spaces between the houses.It is not the streets that exist. It is the streets that no longer exist. - James Fenton
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses.
Some words build houses in your throat. and they live there, content and on fire. - Nayyirah Waheed
Our government, media houses, schools, must focus on creating a new culture in our society. - Sunday Adelaja
We are haunted houses of history. Nobody that we meet ever dies while we are alive. - Stefan Molyneux
The rain out again, hammering the puddles full of holes, pocking the black-and-silver world with shining darkness. Rain soaks each leaf and blade of grass, bloating the lawns until they seem to roll and swell. Houses recede. The wind rises. The eyes and ears of God come down for the walk". - Mary Gatskill
I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas. - Johnny Cash
In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession. - John Bright
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them. - Henry David Thoreau
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science. - Henri Poincare
I could go to a dozen houses, scrape away the dirt, and find his footprints, but my own prints evaporated before I ever looked back. - Brenda Sutton Rose
Some women marry houses. - Anne Sexton
No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want,need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart . - Stephen King
Turns out that once you kill a god, people want to talk to you. Paranormal insurance salesmen with special "godslayer" term life policies. Charlatan's with "godproof" armor and extraplanar safe houses for rent. But most notably, other gods... - Kevin Hearne
For the animals in nature, everywhere is their houses! When we touch anywhere in nature, we must know that we knock their doors! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Houses are like books: so many of them around you, yet you only look at a few and visit or reside in fewer still. - Milorad Pavić
Our government, media houses, schools, must focus on creating a new culture in our society. A culture of work. A culture of labour. A culture of diligence. A culture of hard work. A culture of perseverance. A culture of persistence. A culture of DIGNITY OF LABOUR. - Sunday Adelaja
The grey of a bitter, starved-looking morning. The town like a mortally wounded creature, torn by shells, gashed open by bombs. Dead streets - streets of death - death in streets and their houses; yet people still able to sleep and still sleeping. - Radclyffe Hall
We need more windows for the houses. And for men, more reason! - Mehmet Murat ildan
A seed houses generation of seeds and can also feed generations of man. - Oscar Bimpong
Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for. - Logan Pearsall Smith
The best of the houses is the house where an orphan gets love and kindness.
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.
The windows of the houses - even if the house is ramshackle - are always beautiful because windows represent light! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Houses are built brick-by-brick. HOMEs are built word-by-word. Houses don't build themselves. So YOU must build your home - Fela Durotoye
Some people build houses, buildings. I don't. I build stories. ~ , Author - Ryan Mark
People make one happy, not houses? I do not think so. Houses are more to be trusted than people. - Elizabeth Aston
The little dove, in her nest, in my kitchen window, still awake, all scared, waiting for the storm to pass and we humans are sleeping peacefully, believing that our concrete houses will save us... - Nauman Khan
Oh,' said a very white body as it threw a wrist watch to the ground which broke without attracting anyone's attention, 'Oh, how can anyone not love poetry, natural machines, large white houses, the brilliance of steel, crimes and wild passions? - Robert Desnos
The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even thought they countain most of our lives. - J. Green
Being happy is harder than being discontent. For happiness we have to roll up our sleeves and knock down houses of cards. Because of this exertion, many prefer to abide by ‘fake’ happiness.( " Happiness blowing in the wind. " ) - Erik Pevernagie
Old houses were scaffolding once and workmen whistling. - T.E. Hulme
We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst you need them both. - Karl Lagerfeld
I don't know what's worse by number in America, the vacant houses standing, or the homeless people falling into them. - Anthony Liccione
You talked over the tour guide who pointed to houses and windows. Showing us where people had lived and died and other people now stayed in their place. Just like a broken heart." - Adieu - Kate Chisman
A plague o' both your houses! - William Shakespeare
Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had. - Sir Francis Bacon
All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for. - Logan Pearsall Smith
As change is a constant as our houses, our money, our friends, our things and even our lovers can always disappear - the one thing that we will always remain the closest to, will be our minds and our bodies. - lauren klarfeld
Big houses are not build by big or powerful men but rather by ambitious and determined men. Their achievements make them big/powerful men - Amen Muffler
Black man cleans the streets but mustn't walk freely on the pavement; Black man must build houses for the white man but cannot live in them; Black man cooks the white man's food but eats what is left over. Don't listen to anyone bluff you and say Black and white are brothers. - Es’kia Mphahlele
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