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The house protects the dreamer; the houses that are important to us are the ones that allow us to dream in peace. Guests we've had stop in for a night or two all come down the first morning, ready to tell their dreams. By Frances Mayes Dreamer Peace House Houses Protects

A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. By Margaret Fuller Body House Home Food Fire

Houses are the abiding joys; they are the most emotion-stirring of all things. An automobile is regarded with fond affection, a typewriter becomes the inseparable companion, clothes can stir sentimentality, and the bit of bric-a-brac is a toy one would weep to see torn away - but houses are real, deep, emotional things. How much excitement in the cutting of a window, what enormous importance in the angle of a roof! By Rose Wilder Lane Things Houses Joys Abiding Emotionstirring

You'd think a house would last forever, but the truth is a strong wind or a wrecking ball can devastate it. The family inside is not so different. By Jodi Picoult Forever House Truth Strong Wind

A house of which one knew every room wasn't worth living in. By Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa House Knew Room Worth Living

The house is a fine house, when good folks are within. By George Herbert House Fine Good Folks

Family makes a house a home. By Jennifer Hudson Family Home Makes House

Houses, housetops, like human beings have wonderful character. The lives of housetops. The wear of the seasons. The country is beautiful, young, growing things. The majesty of trees. The backs of tenement houses are living documents. By Robert Henri Housetops Character Human Wonderful Houses

A house is not a machine! It's something else for living - but not a machine. By Moshe Safdie Machine House Living

A home is more than just where you live; it reflects who you are. By Ty Pennington Live Home Reflects

Homes should mean something to us humans. They are a basic instinct. A home, with a life that centers only on food and sleep, is not really a home, it's a house. Beauty and graciousness, joy of living, being used in every part, these are the things that make a house a home. (chapter header quote from Popular Home Decorations, 1940) By Ellen Baker Home Humans House Decorations Popular

The house, it's already been a-settin' here for a hundred years. It'll be right here tomorrow. It's today I must be livin'. By Catherine Marshall House Asettin Years Hundred Tomorrow

What a house - nothin' but rooms! By Yogi Berra Nothin House Rooms

We can finish a house, but never a home. Once you fall in love with a house, you find continual pleasures in fixing it up and making innovations that satisfy your creature's comforts. By Alexandra Stoddard House Home Finish Comforts Fall

An old friend is a new house. By George Herbert House Friend

When I was at my height on TV, I was always busy - rehearsing, practising my impressions, learning new material. When that faded, I had to find another way to be creative. Houses were something to do instead. They saved me. By Bobby Davro Rehearsing Busy Practising Impressions Learning

A home is not a building or a street or a city or something so artificial as bricks and mortar. A home is where one's family is ... By John Boyne Home Mortar Building Street City

Home wasn't so much a house as people, family. By John Edgar Wideman Family Home People House

My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it. By Paul Theroux House Place Spent Years Improving

A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter. By L.m. Montgomery House Feeling Laughter

Houses are like lots of Rooms stuck together, TV persons stay in them mostly but sometimes they go in their outsides and weather happens to them. By Emma Donoghue Rooms Houses Lots Stuck Persons

Houses, I have come to believe, like love, like nature herself, should not reassure, should not attempt to soothe, or give comfort, but should, rather, excite. By Patrick Mcgrath Houses Excite Love Reassure Soothe

The house is a factory. By Dave Eggers Factory House

Hello, the house!" she By Diana Gabaldon House

bedroom. I love this house. My mom By Preeti Shenoy Bedroom House Mom Love

You can live in a house, but your real home is inside you. By Leonard Jacobson House Live Real Home Inside

House-watching is an art. You have to develop a way of seeing how a building sits in its landscape or streetscape. You have to discover how much room it takes up in the world, how much of the world it displaces. By Edmund De Waal Housewatching Art World Streetscape Displaces

I love the house we're in, but at the same time, I'm hooked on the romance of house-hunting. By Sophie Hannah Time Househunting Love House Hooked

This was the dream: to have a house of your own, to fill it with furniture and paint the shutters whatever color you chose. But a fine-looking house could conceal so many horrors. It seemed they spent half their lives just trying to hold it together. By J. Courtney Sullivan Dream Chose House Fill Furniture

The house burst into being. It By Marie Rutkoski House Burst

Am you building up your house, or are you tearing it down? Your 'house' is the sphere of relationships that God has placed you in. By Nancy Leigh Demoss House Building Tearing God Sphere

I hate to sound esoteric, but there is something about a house that leads you to that one chair, that one corner, where you just sit and feel comfortable. By Francisco Costa Esoteric Chair Corner Comfortable Hate

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. By Sydney Smith Happiness Comfortable House Great Source

Who needs a house? I'm talking about your heart. You have plenty of guest rooms there. And that's what you do. You open your heart to people. You keep lovely little rooms in there, just waiting for your friends to come visit. People feel as if they can come right in, just as they are. You don't entertain, you love. That's what lasts. That's why people like me feel as if I will always be your friend. You hold a special place for me in your heart. By Robin Jones Gunn Heart House People Rooms Feel

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it. By H.l. Mencken Shelter Home Mere Transient Essence

I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house. By Jerome K. Jerome Troubles House Spend Rest Life

A house is a machine for living in. Baths, sun, hot-water, cold-water, warmth at will, conservation of food, hygiene, beauty in the sense of good proportion. An armchair is a machine for sitting in and so on. Our By Le Corbusier Machine House Living Baths Sun

Almost any house, caught unexpectedly or at an odd angle, can turn a deeply humorous look on a watching person; even a mischievous little chimney, or a dormer like a dimple, can catch up a beholder with a sense of fellowship; but a house arrogant and hating, never off guard, can only be evil. By Shirley Jackson House Caught Angle Person Chimney

Hill House has an impressive list of tragedies connected with it, but then, most old houses have. People have to live and die somewhere, after all, and a house can hardly stand for eighty years without seeing some of its inhabitants dies within its walls. By Shirley Jackson Hill House Impressive List Tragedies

Your home should tell the story of who you are, and be a collection of what you love brought together under one roof. By Nate Berkus Roof Home Story Collection Love

Whose house is that, Constable? By Oscar Wilde Constable House

In the beginning, there was house. In the end, there was house, and in the middle, there is Axwell By Axwell House Beginning Axwell End Middle

A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of the art of fiction. By John Updike House Furnished Body Fiction Willfully

A house is not a home until it has a dog. By Gerald Durrell Dog House Home

our family's house. By J.k. Rowling House Family

There's something about houses that intrigues me. I mean, they're the place where families spend all their time together, making the house filled with love, life, and laughter. I always look at houses and wonder what's going on inside. Without the people who lived in them, they're just a shell, but once they're filled, they become sacred ground, the place where memories are made. By Taylor Dean Place Intrigues Houses Filled Life

Houses are really bodies. We connect ourselves with walls, roofs, & objects just as we hang on to our livers, skeletons, flesh & bloodstream. I am no beauty, no mirror is necessary to assure me of this absolute fact. Nevertheless I have a death grip on this haggard frame as if it were the limpid body of Venus herself. By Leonora Carrington Houses Bodies Roofs Skeletons Flesh

If the house is to be set in order, ... By John Hope Franklin Order House Set

The best of the houses is the house where an orphan gets love and kindness. By Anonymous Kindness Orphan Love Houses House

Back to the house.'The house?'Yes. You know ... the oversized box in which we live? By Jennifer Delucy Back House House Live Oversized

A home is one of the most important assets that most people will ever buy. Homes are also where memories are made and you want to work with someone you can trust. By Warren Buffett Buy Important Assets People Trust

Home is more than a house. It is a sacred location, a place of aspiration and dreams, of learning and habit, of relationships and heart. Home is the geography of our souls. By Diana Butler Bass Home House Location Dreams Habit

Your house is your larger body. It grows in the sun and sleeps in the stillness of the night; and it is not dreamless. Does not your house dream, and dreaming, leave the city for grove or hilltop? By Khalil Gibran Body House Larger Night Dreamless

Home's where you go when you run out of homes. By John Le Carre Run Home Homes

A house you came to love was like a person, and loved you back, and then you belonged to it forever. By Elswyth Thane Person Back Forever House Love

In contrast to England, half of whose literature seems to revolve around houses and estates, houses and estates being ready extensions of character, America has always found more value in the act of leaving one house for something larger and ostensibly nicer. Fewer and fewer houses remain in a family for more than a generation. They are not passed down ["The Basement," The Awl, Feb 5, 2015]. By Ariana Kelly England America Estates Houses Half

The firmest house in my fiction, probably, is the little thick-walled sandstone farmhouse of 'The Centaur' and 'Of the Farm'; I had lived in that house, and can visualize every floorboard and bit of worn molding. By John Updike Centaur Farm House Fiction Molding

All of us need to be constantly reminded it takes a heap of living and loving to make a house a home. By Marvin J. Ashton Home Constantly Reminded Heap Living

I always wanted that house where everybody wants to go, full of energy, dogs, music, fun. By Rob Lowe Dogs Music Fun Full Energy

Houses are full of things that gather dust By Jack Kerouac Houses Dust Full Things Gather

You don't really fall in love with a house. You fall in love with the life you could have in it. By Alexis Hall Love House Fall Life

A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition. By Elsie De Wolfe Practicality Comfort Tradition House Synthesis

Homes-the very idea of homeownership-evoke a strong emotional reaction in all of us. By Spencer Rascoff Homesthe Idea Homeownershipevoke Strong Emotional

A home should be an intimate autobiography of the things that you like. One of the things I'm so keen on expressing is that, if you don't do it for yourself, if you're always seeking affirmation from outside, you'll never have a home. It'll just be a house. By Alexandra Stoddard Home Things Intimate Autobiography Keen

Which house that is? Or how many siblings you have? By Lynn Kurland House Siblings

Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own; this house was the architectural equivalent of an old gentleman in a worn dressing-gown and torn slippers, who got up and went to bed at odd times of day, and who kept up a continual conversation with friends no one else could see. By Susanna Clarke People Slippers Day Apt Eccentric

I try to create homes, not houses. By Louis Kahn Homes Houses Create

Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them. By Anais Nin Houses Turn Corpses Overnight Cease

It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself. By J. Milton Hayes House Describing Reader Fix Scene

A home is much more than a house built of lumber, brick, or stone. A home is made of love, sacrifice, and respect. We are responsible for the homes we build. We must build wisely, for eternity is not a short voyage. There will be calm and wind, sunlight and shadows, joy and sorrow. But if we really try, our home can be a bit of heaven here on earth. The thoughts we think, the deeds we do, the lives we live not only influence the success of our earthly journey, they also mark the way to our eternal goals. By Thomas S. Monson Home Brick Lumber Stone House

Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Happy Character House Relationships Formed

A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight lines. It gives an indication of the character at the heart of it. By Christian Louboutin Portrait House Houses People Disconnect

Home is a symbol of the self. Caring for a home is caring for one's self. By Gloria Steinem Home Symbol Caring

Our house is our corner of the world. By Gaston Bachelard World House Corner

The house had a name. The Banana House. It was carved onto a piece of sandstone above the front door. It made no sense to anyone. By Hilary Mckay House Banana Door Carved Piece

You wouldn't maintain a house like that' you'd feet it and water it. You'd have to give it nourishment and love it to keep it alive and healthy. By Anne Rivers Siddons Maintain House Feet Water Healthy

Houses, like faces, hide all kinds of memories. By Ron Franscell Houses Faces Hide Memories Kinds

Ideas are 10 a penny. It's the execution that's the hard thing to do. House is standing up against a tide of sentiment and emotionalism over reason that threatens to engulf this world. When you think about it, a rationalist, a man of science and reason, is in a pretty lonely position. By Hugh Laurie Ideas Penny Reason Execution Hard

I believe that a perfect house is like a perfect person; no one really wants to be around them and everyone secretly hates them. Be the weird person. Be the interesting person, the person that sometimes says inappropriate things or laughs too loud at jokes, and have your home reflect who you are. By Emily Henderson Perfect Person House Secretly Hates

A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff. By George Carlin Stuff House Place

A home is a kingdom of it's own in the midst of the world, a stronghold amid life's storms and stresses, a refuge, even a sanctuary. By Dietrich Bonhoeffer World Stresses Refuge Sanctuary Home

No house is ugly with a good view! By Mehmet Murat Ildan View House Ugly Good

In all my longing for a family and a home, I'd never quite been able to decide what they should have looked like. But this house looks and feels so right, so perfect, it seems impossible any other place would suit me half so well. By Lisa Kleypas Home Longing Family Decide Looked

A house is your third skin, after the skin made of flesh and clothing. By Jenny Erpenbeck Clothing Skin House Made Flesh

I'm in between homes right now, but my last house was dope. By Method Man Dope Homes House

A house and a woman sute excellently. By George Herbert Excellently House Woman Sute

But the truth is there's no such thing as a bad house - just a bad show. By Michael Riedel Bad House Show Truth Thing

It was a house without kindness, never meant to be lived in, not a fit place for people or for love or for hope. Exorcism cannot alter the countenance of a house ; Hill House would stay as it was until it was destroyed. By Shirley Jackson House Kindness Hope Meant Lived

A house is sometimes wine. It is sometimes more than a skin. By William Carlos Williams Wine House Skin

A house isn't a real house without a woman in it. By Sarah Addison Allen House Real Woman

It's a rented house right along the Mississippi River, a house that screams Suburban Nouveau Riche, the kind of place I aspired to as a kid from my split-level, shag-carpet side of town. The kind of house that is immediately familiar: a generically grand, unchallenging, new, new, new house that my wife would-and did-detest. 'Should I remove my soul before I come inside?' Her first line upon arrival. By Gillian Flynn River Riche House Mississippi Suburban

Home was more than a house. It was a place in a person's heart. By Ann H. Gabhart Home House Heart Place Person

There are certain people who seem doomed to buy certain houses. The house expects them. It waits for them. By Peter Ackroyd People Doomed Buy Houses House

At forty-three, I bought my first house. I'd wanted one like crazy. A house meant family, a happy childhood for my litttle girl and for the little girl self inside me ... I was soon overwhelmed by the upkeep and overcome by the yardwork ... In the bright light of closing, it was obvious: it was never a house I wanted; it was what a house symbolized to me. (254) By Victoria Moran House Fortythree Bought Wanted Girl

I've discovered a new video game called owning my home. By Dan Harmon Home Discovered Video Game Called

I wanted people to come to the restaurant and feel at home, so I put it in a house. By Alice Waters Home House Wanted People Restaurant

Like a serial killer, the house blended in. It suited its place and its place suited it. By Barry Lyga Killer Serial House Blended Place

Under the one word "house" are included the schoolhouse, the almshouse, the jail, the tavern, the dwellinghouse; and the meanest shed or cave in which men live contains elements of all these. But nowhere on the earth stands the entire and perfect house. By Henry David Thoreau House Word Schoolhouse Almshouse Jail

One of the main uses of a home is to stay in it, when one is too weak and spiritless for conforming, without effort, to the ways of other houses. By Jane Welsh Carlyle Conforming Effort Houses Main Home

The house itself is of minor importance. Its relation to the community is the thing that really counts. By Clarence Stein Importance House Minor Counts Relation