Building Quote by Pedro Arrupe

A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract…

— Marguerite Duras

A house is not a machine to live in. It is the shell of man, his extension, his release, his spiritual emanation.

— Eileen Gray

A house is more than just a shelter; that it is a way of improving your way of life.

— William Krisel

A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely.

— Yann Martel

What does a house want to be?

— Louis Kahn

“Men and boys are learning all kinds of trades but how to make men of themselves. They learn to make houses; but they are…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself.

— J. Milton Hayes

[T]he "home" represents the most precious human treasures, that of encounter, that of relations among people, different in age, culture and history, but who…

— Pope Francis

Man's home is nature; his purposes and aims are dependent for execution upon natural conditions. Separated from such conditions they become empty dreams and…

— John Dewey

A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.

— Elsie de Wolfe

A house is a home when it shelters the body and comforts the soul.

— Phillip Moffitt

The difference between a house and a home is like the difference between a man and a woman-- it might be embarrassing to explain,…

— Anonymous