Home Quote by Helen Dunmore Download Open image ““Our houses are palaces to those who have none.”” — Helen Dunmore ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Home
“Wealthy people build palaces with nine floors. At the time of their departure (dying), the palace jests with them, ‘You are going and here… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“There are some people to whom life will never be anything more than a kitchen garden; and there are others to whom it will… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“But I do have a real and significant palace. It stands on yonder hills. I do not know how it compares to the other… — Charles Haddon Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Palaces are built on the people's bones. To tell the truth, the masses would be better off without kingdoms, which is why it takes… — Fuyumi Ono Copy Share Image
“many rich men and high dignitaries would willingly exchange their palaces for the poor man's cottage if they could only acquire his peace of… — St. John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
“You can appreciate your life, even if it is an imperfect situation. Perhaps your apartment is run down and your furniture is old and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Each man or woman was a mansion in a condition between grandness and disrepair, and even in a grand palace, sometimes a room existed… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“There are no beautiful houses in England now. Only ruins, mental homes, and Government offices.” — Robert Aickman Copy Share Image
“Every palace needs a foundation, Askeladden. Make sure that yours isn't of human bones.-Hans Peter” — Jessica Day George Copy Share Image
“...my house contains every useless thing in the world. it lacks only the one essential, a piece of sky like this one...” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn't work, throw it away. It's a nice feeling, and you don't want to be cluttered with… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
“The word 'personal' is one of my aversions. Personal loan. Personal hygiene. Personal safety. It's only a way of wrapping up bad news that… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
“Dad was alive. I believed Conor, but I still didn't really know it. But now I do.” — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
“Fear of this order is not an emotion. It is like a virus overwhelming every cell of his body, while his mind struggles to… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me that there was a self-interest hidden in the core of all of us, which cooled us when we contemplated any… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long walk. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my… — Jane Powell Copy Share Image
“It is not the force of the wind, but the depth of the roots.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are. — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Most days, I go home and I feel rejuvenated. I feel ebullient. — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
![“I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my career], because so many things are on the road. I just don't want to be away from my husband, my dogs and my home. I don't sing that much any more because that also takes you on the road.” quote by Jane Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/07c/jane-powell-36243_away-from-home_i-don-t-like-being-away-from-home-that-s_278.jpg)
