Houses quotes

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◆ A house is made of walls and beams... a home is made of love and dreams

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◆ Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body

- Margaret Fuller99

◆ The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace

- John Owen99

◆ I have a microwave fireplace in my house. The other night I laid down in front of the fire for the evening in two minutes.

- Stephen Wright99

◆ I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.

- Mahatma Gandhi99

◆ 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.

- Horace Mann99

◆ A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space.

- Clarence Stein99

◆ If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

- Paul McCartney99

◆ There are a lot of big spec houses now all across Connecticut, a lot of ostentatious showing of wealth.

- Glenn Close99

◆ The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.

- Stephen Gardiner99

◆ Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.

- Stephen Gardiner99

◆ Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

- Francis Bacon99

◆ If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

- Gaston Bachelard99

◆ You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life- so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself

- Jane Seymour99

◆ The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson99