Our Houses Quotes

29 Our Houses quotes by 26 unique authors

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts. — Italo Calvino
An infinity of these tiny animals defoliate our plants, our trees, our fruits... they attack our houses, our fabrics, our furniture, our clothing, our furs… — Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur
I don't believe in aliens. I don't think aliens or ghosts like black people. We never get abducted; our houses never get haunted. It always… — Xzibit
Lindsay Lohan's collaboration was a disaster. I am furious but I can't do anything about it. That happens to a lot of designers. We were… — Emanuel Ungaro
As we manipulate everyday words, we forget that they are fragments of ancient and eternal stories, that we are building our houses with broken pieces… — Bruno Schulz
Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but not into our affections. — Pierre Charron
If therefore our houses be houses of the Lord, we shall for that reason love home, reckoning our daily devotion the sweetest of our daily… — Matthew Henry
There is not enough Bible-reading among us. It is not sufficient to have the Book. We must actually READ it, and PRAY over it ourselves.… — J C Ryle
Books, like all art, breed in us desire. In times of crisis and fear and misrepresentation we need desire, or else we shut down and… — Lidia Yuknavitch
We can make our houses homes and our homes heavens. — Spencer W. Kimball
You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames. — Archibald MacLeish
If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our… — Samuel Johnson
For I cannot think that GOD Almighty ever made them [women] so delicate, so glorious creatures; and furnished them with such charms, so agreeable and… — Daniel Defoe
Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so… — Paul Valery
I think the black community is no different from any other community. We need to take responsibility for how we live together. We need to… — Pearl Cleage
A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them. — Henry David Thoreau
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it… — Henry David Thoreau
in the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - our houses. — Alan Weisman
We aren't in high school. We aren't really in our families and we aren't in our houses. Those are the places we grew up and… — Ann Brashares
Jill and I have known each other our whole lives. One house separates our houses but we act as if it doesn't exist. We met… — Alice Hoffman
Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed and envy,… — Veronica Roth
May we look upon our treasure, the furniture of our houses, and our garments, and try to discover whether the seeds of war have nourishment… — John Woolman
Gadgets - our houses are filled with them: ones we need, ones we think we need, and others that were a good idea at the… — Sheherazade Goldsmith
We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest… — Edward Coke

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