For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some… — Fred Thompson Copy Share Image
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“if dreams were thunder and lightning was desire this old house would have burned down a long time ago” — John Prine Copy Share Image
In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines 74 lived twelve little girls in two straight lines. — Ludwig Bemelmans Copy Share Image
An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out. — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
Man is made of the wholly common, and custom is his nurse; woe then to them who lay irreverent hands on his… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
He got the notion into his head that if he restored the old house where they had come that night, Allie would… — The Notebook Copy Share Image
The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I'd get up from… — Paul Lynde Copy Share Image
“But my heart is an old house (the kind my mother grew up in) hell to heat and cool and faulty in… — Clementine von Radics Copy Share Image
Famous old houses seem to have an intuitive perception of the value of corner lots. If it is a possible thing, they… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
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I grew up in a modern home, but my grandmother lived across the street in an old house that was built when… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
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“Mrs. Latham patted Hayley's knee with a frail, liver-spotted hand. ''I'm sure you do, dear. And I'm afraid those kinds of losses… — Carol Rose Copy Share Image
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“The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas… — Henry James Copy Share Image
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“If this had been an old house, with creaking wood, and dark shadows, and heavily panelled walls, there might have been an… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
We don't have to remain in this radically destructive mind-set and institutional-set. We can change, and the natural order of things could… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
Like the morning you walked out of that old house, when you were eighteen and I was, well, I had just turned… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
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“I thought. I thought of the slow yellow autumn in the swamp and the high honey sun of spring and the eternal… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
“The fight unfolded like background noise. White noise. In the foreground, even with his ghastly pale face looking dead in my hands,… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
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“the second directly opposite led initially to the lounge, following on to a double bedroom and small bathroom. This door was closed.… — Jane Isaac Copy Share Image
My desk is an antique with bookshelves built into the side. I've turned the drawer over to hold a keyboard. We live… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“There are settling girls, and there are unsettling girls. The ones who seem to have it in them to be flyers are… — Amruta Patil Copy Share Image
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My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“If there's one thing I'd like most for you, it's that you'll find your calling in life. That's where true happiness and… — Beth Hoffman Copy Share Image
I never went camping when I was a kid - I'm from Hounslow, it's a bit of a concrete jungle. In my… — Asim Chaudhry Copy Share Image
When you stroll through Munich it can happen that you suddenly stand in front of an old house, an idyllically-dreaming church that… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
“The house gulped in a big breath of fresh air, like some frantic drowning thing breaking the water's surface and gasping for… — Rachel Autumn Deering Copy Share Image
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