Old House Quotes
29 quotes by 29 authors
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Traditional dinosaur theory is full of short circuits. Like the antiquated wiring in an old house, the details sputter and burn out when specific parts…
— Robert T. Bakker
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Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all his…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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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 Eve in an…
— Henry James
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In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines 74 lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.
— Ludwig Bemelmans
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Meanwhile, Cynthia and I are busy fixing up a real old house that we just bought in Hollywood. With two children now, we just couldn't…
— Kent McCord
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It is a thought as sweet as heaven to know that in the minds of each of us the may by the fence still blooms…
— Eve Langley
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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 emerge in all…
— Dee Hock
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I highly recommend Aubrey Plumbing Company. I did extensive remodeling on a large, old house in the Murphy, TX. Aubrey Plumbing basically redid all the…
— Tom Brewer
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My place in Chicago is a 105 year old house, but I really like contemporary spaces too, so it's refreshing and fun to be in…
— Ted Allen
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I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.
— Lorene Scafaria
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My dream is to have a beautiful old house in Monaco.
— Eva Herzigova
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My wife, Daniela, and I live in an old house from 1810 with three fireplaces at the end of a dead-end dirt road on Cape…
— Sebastian Junger
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The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old…
— Barbara Corcoran
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We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign.
— Loretta Lynn
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I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she…
— John Forbes Nash
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I live in an old house with no closets and no built-ins. I hate big cupboards.
— Martha Stewart
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It was a grand old house, the Ayemenem House, but aloof-looking. As though it had little to do with the people who lived in it.…
— Arundhati Roy
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And now my old dog is dead, and another I had after him, and my parents are dead, and that first world, that old house,…
— Mary Oliver
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Like the morning you walked out of that old house, when you were eighteen and I was, well, I had just turned nineteen, hadn't I?…
— Michael Cunningham
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I wish people could have seen what they called our mansion. They would have been so disappointed, because it was just an old house that…
— Tammy Faye Bakker
Who Wrote These Old House Quotes
29 authors contributed a total of 29 Old House Quotes, led by these top contributors: