Houses Quotes

I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them.

Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys.

We cannot sacrifice our safety to the murderous greed of drug cartels. We cannot stand idly by as drop houses, kidnappings and violence compromise our quality of life.

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

When I made my Broadway debut, I was still cleaning houses, something I'd done since I went out on my own at 15.

You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

We all came from houses with doors, doors that were supposed to be closed when there were things going on that we weren't supposed to see, and when our pants were down.

Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we lost? Two hundred thousand.

Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights.

The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.

I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others.

We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility.

Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.

Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses.

I got a bit enamoured with bigger houses and things like that.

Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays... We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more?

I want to get out of the major opera houses.

The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses.

People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.

It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.'

I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills.

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.

We used to have food picked and used to have houses built and we used to have chicken properly processed and it was Americans that did it. If we are going to continue to utilize those goods, then what's going to have to happen is that the employers are going to have to elevate the wages in order to attract American workers to do those jobs.

I want to tell people how to live spiritually. After you've bought all your houses and your clothes, you want something bigger.

They say that shadows of deceased ghosts Do haunt the houses and the graves about, Of such whose life's lamp went untimely out, Delighting still in their forsaken hosts.

When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called "Dead End." The name kind of described us. People liked us; we would go and perform at coffee houses and stuff.

Two packed houses. I guess the theater sat 2,700 people every night so it was an amazing experience.