1,060 Quotes About House

If you think relationships are hard, try growing a house plant. You'll realise that the later won't even tell you why it's sad, so you have to figure that out and do everything possible to make it blossom (or smile) again.

Do not go to my grave. Mary knows, I am not there. Look for me in between pages and on people’s lips.Do not go to my old school. Do not go to my old house —I am not in any of those places. Look for me in your hearts and greet me there.

Like waking up in our home one night to find ourselves in a blazing fire, we must be arsonists of emotion, forcing ourselves to grab only what is truly important to us before our life-rafters collapse in on us and we can no longer escape alive.

School taught me how to do language, maths and science; it failed to teach me the very basics of how to keep my home healthy.

... the house is on fire, but go ahead - finish painting the verandah...

You see Sophie, it is the story of the people who worked and lived, not the house that matters. The history of a house is the history of the people who have lived in it.

Be wary to enter a house whose door is opened by a relative.

The house was clean, scrubbed and immaculate, curtains washed, windows polished, but all as a man does it - the ironed curtains did not hang quite straight and there were streaks on the windows and a square showed on the table when a book was moved.

All sorts of strange people were around, people who looked more at home than she was, even the homeless ones who spoke no English, more at home maybe because they were younger, and when she went out it seemed to her that she too had migrated, that everyone migrates, even if we stay in the same houses our whole lives, because we can't help it.We are all migrants through time.