- Nov 07, 2020
House Quotes
The homes people leave, and why.
Not every house quote here is about comfort — one describes real backlash a filmmaker faced over a controversial title, while another speaks to moving comfortably between very different social settings. See Love quotes for the gentler side of home life.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Department Store
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- Nov 07, 2020
The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandmother's house - she ran it just like her grandmother and her great-grandmother. They didn't have electricity. They had wood stoves that never got cold.
- Compact
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- Nov 07, 2020
Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit to the judgment of this house and to the best consideration of its members, that this compact should not be lightly altered.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was anathema in polite society after I made 'Last House.' People literally would grab their children and run from the room.
- Nov 07, 2020
Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler.
- Nov 07, 2020
We've been waiting for a format like triple-A where you can hear Crowded House, Joni Mitchell and R.E.M.
- Friendly
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my almost ten years in the House of Representatives, I have voted consistently to allow companies to drill for oil and natural gas in environmentally friendly ways.
- Security
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of us who serve in the House of Representatives and the Senate pay into Social Security.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
A Muslim student came by the office and asked why I did not have anything on my wall about the Koran. My response was clear, 'As long as I have the honor of representing the citizens of the 5th District of Virginia in the United States House of Representatives, the Koran is not going to be on the wall of my office.'
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020