Dwellings Quotes
29 quotes by 23 authors
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We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.
— Winston Churchill
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Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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By our little acts of charity practiced in the shade we convert souls far away, we help missionaries, we win for them abundant alms; and…
— Therese of Lisieux
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Christ is our hope, our cleansing and santification, our resurrection, life and repose. He alone is what we all need, and therefore, the Orthodox Church…
— John of Kronstadt
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Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.
— Vladimir Lenin
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Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wantedto build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy…
— Edvard Grieg
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Man has created some lovely dwellings, some soul-stirring literature. He has done much to alleviate physical pain. But he has not ... created a substitute…
— Harvey Broome
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We are sad at home and blame the weather and the ugliness of the buildings, but on the tropical island we learn that the state…
— Alain de Botton
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Small rooms and dwellings set the mind on the right path, large ones cause it to go astray.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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I've always loved spaces and dwellings in general.
— Arizona Muse
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If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it would…
— John Ruskin
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Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn't it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible to…
— Mervyn Peake
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Bears are made of the same dust as we, and they breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters. A bear's days are…
— John Muir
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The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
— Izaak Walton
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And Gandalf said: "This is your realm, and the heart of the greater realm that shall be. The Third Age of the world is ended,…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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A terrible premonition washed over me. This was how the whole world would end.... They would devour the forest and excrete piles of buildings made…
— Robin Hobb
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We build dwellings and thereafter they build us.
— Winston Churchill
Who Wrote These Dwellings Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 29 Dwellings Quotes as follows: