About Quote by Ben Katchor

Old houses, I thought, do not belong to people ever, not really, people belong to them.

— Gladys Taber

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that…

— Carl Sandburg

Our beautiful old buildings tell us so much about who we are.

— George Clarke

I like old people when they have aged well. And old houses with an accumulation of sweet honest living in them are good. And…

— M. F. K. Fisher

I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones.

— Kevin McCloud

An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.

— Cameron Mackintosh

I grew up in a modern home, but my grandmother lived across the street in an old house that was built when churches were…

— Laura Esquivel

You don't have to be brought up in a grand house to have a sense of the past, and I truly believe that there…

— Peter Ackroyd

I lived in Miami for a while, in a section with a lot of really old people. The average age in my apartment house…

— Gabe Kaplan

It's sad to see these old buildings go because they have so many memories, and it's a real personal kind of thing when you…

— Clarence Clemons

There is a palpable sense of history in the homes that I choose to occupy. I think that's one of the reasons I gravitate…

— David Lowery

People have grown fond of me, like some old building.

— Katharine Hepburn