Age Quote by Jocelyn Bell Burnell

I've always been into older homes, even if I have to refurbish or remodel or raise roof lines or knock out walls.

— Jaclyn Smith

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that…

— Carl Sandburg

My father was an architect and I grew up knowing more about planning regulations and the constraints of old buildings than most children.

— Tanni Grey-Thompson

My dad was a roofer; my mom worked in elementary school.

— Derek Trucks

My dad builds houses, and, for the earlier portion of my life anyway, we moved around quite a bit. It took us to some…

— John Gourley

Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I moved to a three-bed…

— David Johansen

Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.

— Leonard Cohen

“Our house was made of stone, stucco, and clapboard; the newer wings, designed by a big-city architect, had a good deal of glass, and…

— Joyce Carol Oates

My parents both flipped homes. A typical weekend for us was walking through model home units. I loved walking through interesting floor plans and…

— Jeremiah Brent

My grandfather was a builder. So as a kid I hung out with him on building sites during the school holidays - long before…

— George Clarke

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

— Anonymous

I began to see new buildings, too, which were connected by futuristic walkways lit from beneath. Long, cool perspectives of modern architecture, rising phosphorescent…

— Donna Tartt