Community Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

— Henry David Thoreau

“The law is that you must live in the house you have built. The law is absurd: it is written down nowhere. You are…

— Frank Bidart

“Home is not defined by walls; it's the unwavering sense of love and protection we carry within us, wherever we may go.”

— Ionut Alin Hoisan

“Who can ever affirm, or deny that the houses which have sheltered us as children, or as adults, and our predecessors too, do not…

— Heather Day Gilbert

“Owning a hundred slum properties wasn’t a crime, although living in one was, almost. Being”

— Terry Pratchett

“A home is a place one's heart creates and so recognizes as its own. A place it enters of its own free will. All…

— Cameron Dokey

“Yes, the house must be inhabited, and we will see by whom; for imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs,…

— George Eliot

“The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression.”

— C.L.R. James

“The tenement house is the enemy of modesty, the enemy of virtue, the enemy of patriotism. Home is where the virtues grow. I would…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“One of the drawbacks of upward social mobility is a sense of guilty indebtedness to the old neighborhood.”

— Mary Gordon

“They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. Not ones that came like cupboards with built-in bedrooms. Not ones you spent your whole…

— Arundhati Roy