Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nancy Reagan

I said from the very beginning, I don't want a big house, I don't want big grounds, I don't want the trouble with the maintenance and all of that.

Lisa Kleypas

Where are we going?” Annabelle asked, resisting his hold on her wrist. “To the house. If they’re not willing to be witnesses, then it seems I’ll have to debauch you in front of someone else.

John Selden

The House of Commons is called the Lower House, in twenty Acts of Parliament; but what are twenty Acts of Parliament amongst Friends?

Louise Erdrich

The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.

Genevieve Gorder

So, like I said, I will visit Jeffersonville more often because I now have a little getaway house up there.

Charlotte Gilman

A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband." (on the term "housewife")

Henry David Thoreau

It is possible to invent a house still more convenient and luxurious than we have...but shall we always study to obtain more of these things, and not sometimes to be content with less?

Henry David Thoreau

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

Malcolm X

There were always more Negroes in the field than there was Negroes in the house. The Negro in the field caught hell. He ate leftovers. In the house they ate high up on the hog. The Negro in the field didn't get nothing but what was left of the insides of the hog. They call 'em "chitt'lin'" nowadays. In those days they called them what they were: guts. That's what you were -- a gut-eater. And some of you all still gut-eaters.

Mahatma Gandhi

Religion is not like a house or a cloak which can be changed at will.

Mahatma Gandhi

My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world.

This is our house now. And we're moving past it.

This is a house that could have been demolished. We take pride in saving a piece of Pittsburgh's architectural history.

This is a house that could have been demolished, ... We take pride in saving a piece of Pittsburgh's architectural history.

George F. Will

All God's chillun got shoes or can get them in Mrs Marcos's closet, which is large enough to house Mr and Mrs Duvalier, itinerant nonlaborers.

Airman Witt said he went back to the house because he didn't want to leave any evidence,

Eric Braeden

If it's really so wonderful that both partners have to work to make a living to pay for their house, for health insurance, someone is obviously going to get the short end of the stick.

George H. W. Bush

The House has made its statement, and the Senate has made its statement,

The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman

Brad Sherman

the House weren't a rubber stamp for this administration.

The houses that are priced properly are selling. We have a market that's pretty much in balance.

Mary Jones

The house started smoking and as soon as that happened, me and my mother ran inside. The house was already flaming.

The houses are all side-by-side and trial participants will be able to visit one another freely.

The house represents the transition from being an unknown singer to a superstar,

W. S. Gilbert

The House of Peers, throughout the war, / Did nothing in particular, / And did it very well.

The house is just a temporary thing, just a place for them to live while we play in Oklahoma City,

Arlen Specter

You don't have the votes in the House of Representatives to overcome a presidential veto.

James Anthony Froude

I could never fear a God who kept a hell prison-house. No, not though he flung me there because I refused. There is a power stronger than such a one; and it is possible to walk unscathed even in the burning furnace.

Jon Bon Jovi

There's not a platinum record hanging in my house anywhere. It doesn't exist here. I'm over it. They're all in the garage, wrapped up in bubblewrap.

Luigi Pirandello

Inevitably we construct ourselves. Let me explain. I enter this house and immediately I become what I have to become, what I can become: I construct myself. That is, I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you. And, of course, you do the same with me.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important? (As it were all the buildings, leaving behind only bits of stone and rubble.) What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stand.

John Bright

I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons.

Luis Gutierrez

Nothing happens here in this building, in the House of Representatives, if there's no demand from outside the Capitol.