House Quotes

In coming to the Congress as a new Member and becoming a fellow Blue Dog, we have had an opportunity to share and really spend a great deal of time in examining the challenges that our Nation finds itself in in getting its fiscal house in order.

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

The State of the Union may look rosy from the White House balcony or the suites of George Bush's wealthiest donors. But hardworking Americans will see through this president's efforts to wrap his radical agenda with a compassionate ribbon.

I bought a house in LA, hanging out there and spending a lot of time in Toronto, but not much.

A nation without borders is like a house without walls - it collapses. And that is what is going to happen to our wonderful America.

There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I'd hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I have.

We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It's a lovely place to be, but it's not extravagant.

I'd rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd.

I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!

I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

I'm very low-key. I don't really blend in, so it's difficult to go out in public. I like to do things that are kind of quiet, whether it's a dinner at my house or a restaurant, or a movie night at home.

Our baby is safe, and it's just a house.

I think that if Republicans are given the reins of leadership in the House or Senate or both, we will have to govern in a way - at least put forward solutions whether or not the president goes along with them or not, that deal with these long-term challenges.

Members of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate are not there by accident. Each managed to get there for some reason. Learn what it was and you will know something important about them, about our country and about the American people.

I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.

I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe.

I have not practiced saxophone since 1980. I mean, not one note. I do not pick it up in my house, and that's the end of it.

The bank told us we ought to sell this house to pay off our overdraft. Riders saved the day. I was so pleased when it got to number one, I went all around the fields crying and crying.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

I will always have a career. I believe in working. I don't believe that taking care of your house and children is enough for a woman. You don't feel complete.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.

It was what became something of a pattern in the first couple of years of the Clinton White House and maybe even longer, where information would drip, drip, drip, drip, drip out which would keep stories alive, alive, alive.

What I truly miss the most is having sufficient time to do all the things that need to be done around the house and for our friends.

My father was a doctor, and I admired him and got along well with him. He took me with him on house calls. We were living in Flushing, which was then a sleepy village of 25,000 - before the subway got there. I've been sure I wanted to be a doctor since I was about 12.

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

But there's certainly only one thing I could never agree with George Galloway on. He's a teetotaller and wants to close all the bars in the House of Commons. That is just not on.