Around Quote by Alice Morse Earle

The Meeting is actually like the Gunpowder Meeting, or some of the earlier American Quaker MeetingsThe long house form is something that was traditionthat's…

— James Turrell

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

— Stephen Gardiner

A house isn't really understandable until it settles into the site: until it's built, furnished and lived in for four or five years. The…

— Jaquelin T. Robertson

Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the…

— Francis Parkman

One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first public building was a meeting-house, but often…

— Alice Morse Earle

The house I grew up in was a tall Victorian town house in Bristol. There were very big rooms, which were under-furnished and always…

— Philippa Gregory

Most English houses, grand or small, nestle in an intimate pastoral setting.

— Nicholas Haslam

It was a house for those who could not take care of themselves, for those who heard voices, who had strange thoughts and did…

— Madeleine Roux

We lived in a housing project graced by the architectural style of Early Chicken Coop.

— Clara Fraser

We build dwellings and thereafter they build us.

— Winston Churchill

Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were…

— Sarah Dessen

A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract…

— Marguerite Duras