1,060 Quotes About House

Nell was like a witch. Her long silvery hair rolled into a bun on the back of her head, the narrow wooden house on the hillside in Paddington, with its peeling lemon-yellow paint and overgrown garden, the neighborhood cats that followed her everywhere. The way she had of fixing her eyes so straight on you, as if she might be about to cast a spell.

Life begins well. It begins enclosed, protected, all warm in the bosom of the house. -Gaston Bachelard

Every house is built by a man. But Maker is the Builder of life.

The manor house creaked with joy to have someone inside it again. It let a floorboard give way just to feel him brush against its walls.

If you are not willing to look stupid, nothing great is ever going to happen to you.

I realize something. I haven't had a single flashback or panic attack since I stepped inside the house. It's so cut off from the outside world, so cocooned, I feel utterly safe. A line from my favorite movie floats into my head. The quietness and the proud look of it. Nothing very bad could happen to you there.

She repainted the house to resonate year round with a summertime oasis in floral colors from the backyard garden—her ceremonial grounds—keeping her in her roots of greenness.

Most people under the influence of the wrong and common belief which says that the sense of man’s life is to grow a tree, build a house and bring up a son

The fraudulent electrical utility company in conjunction with the corrupt sheriff taught me that an Englishman's home is not his castle