House Quotes
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He who builds a mosque in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.
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I think I previously indicated that he attended three Hanukkah receptions at the White house. It is actually only two Hanukkah receptions that he attended. [...] I don't get into discussing staff-level meetings.
scott mcclellan— Source: Press briefing, January 17, 2006
We didn't have any civil rights. It was just a matter of survival, of existing from one day to the next. I remember going to sleep as a girl hearing the Klan ride at night and hearing a lynching and being afraid the house would burn down.
rosa parks— Quoted in "Standing Up for Freedom," Academy of Achievement.org (2005-10-31)
What is proposed herein is that we have no right, nor any ethical justification, for clearing land or using wilderness while we tread over lawns, create erosion, and use land inefficiently. Our responsibility is to put our house in order. Should we do so, there will never be any need to destroy wilderness.
bill mollison— chapter 3.10
He who builds a mosque in the way of Allah , God will build a house for him in the paradise.
— Muhammad, as quoted in Sahih Muslim, Nr. 828; muslim-canada.org
If the estimate of the house Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.
walter lippmann— The Miami Herald (December 18, 1947), p. 6A.
May the Yuletide log slip from your fire and burn your house down.
— Lord Melchett from Blackadder
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Abraham Lincoln— Abraham Lincoln, speech, June 17, 1858. See W. O. Stoddard's Life of Lincoln.
When I left, Merle was wearing a bungalow apron and rolling pie-crust. She came to the door wiping her hands on the apron and kissed me on the mouth and began to cry and ran back into the house, leaving the doorway empty until her mother came into the space with a broad homely smile on her face to watch me drive away. I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again.
Raymond Chandler— The High Window, chapter 36 (1942)
It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
jesus christ— 21:13 (KJV).
A young man before he leaves the shelter of his father's house, and the guard of a tutor, should be fortify'd with resolution, and made acquainted with men, to secure his virtues, lest he should be led into some ruinous course, or fatal precipice, before he is sufficiently acquainted with the dangers of conversation, and his steadiness enough not to yield to every temptation.
john locke— Some Thoughts Concerning Education, Sec. 70 (1693)
May the Yuletide log slip from your fire and burn your house down.
— Lord Melchett from Blackadder
A babe in a house is a well-spring of pleasure.
martin farquhar tupper— Martin Farquhar Tupper, Of Education.
Utah will yet become the treasure-house of the nation.
Abraham Lincoln— Abraham Lincoln, Edward Tullige in "History of Salt Lake City" (1886) 697.
Some wonder why I have such a feeling of concern over the imposition of the death penalty. I ask those who wonder how would you feel if you defended a man charged with murder, who was as innocent as any hon. member in this house at this very moment, who was convicted; whose appeal was dismissed, who was executed; and six months later the star witness for the Crown admitted that he, himself, had committed the murder and blamed it on the accused? That experience will never be effaced from my memory.
john diefenbaker— May 1, 1972, House of Commons.
Sir Anthony Eden has been pretending that he is now invading Egypt in order to strengthen the United Nations. Every burglar of course could say the same thing, he could argue that he was entering the house in order to train the police. So, if Sir Anthony Eden is sincere in what he is saying, and he may be, he may be, then if he is sincere in what he is saying then he is too stupid to be a prime minister.
Aneurin Bevan— Speech on November 4th at "Law not War" rally in Trafalgar Square, London, during the Suez crisis of 1956.
Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse had signed a lease on a five-room apartment in a geometric white house on First Avenue when they received word, from a woman named Mrs. Cortez, that a four-room apartment in the Bramford had become available.
ira levin— Opening words
One of the things — the important aspects of this race — is role modeling what good families should look like. Our view was that, if you can't run your own house, you certainly can't run the White house.
michelle obama— Speech Speech at a Women for Obama rally, Chicago (August 2007). YouTube video
A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.
jesus christ— The Gospel of Matthew 13:57 (KJV).
I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
jesus christ— The Gospel of Matthew 15:24 (KJV).
"And he said to them (Joseph and Mary), “Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?”
jesus christ— Luke 2:49 (ESV)
I am finding the inherent politeness of this place quite destabilising. Having come from a house where politeness is about as rare as an orderly queue at a London bus stop, the culture shock on entering your Lordships' house has been profound. Indeed, such relentless politeness is not merely destabilising, but positively exhausting.
lord stratford— Maiden speech to the House of Lords, 20 July 2005; quoted by United Kingdom Parliament World Wide Web Service
— contrasting the House of Lords with the House of Commons.
I have notified the speaker that I will temporarily step aside from my position as majority leader pursuant to rules of the house Republican Conference and the actions of the Travis County district attorney today.
tom delay— On his indictment for conspiracy in a campaign finance scheme, 2005 September 28
Unlike the current occupant of the White house, he has no difficulty in orally extemporising a series of grammatical English sentences, each containing a main verb.
Boris Johnson— Telegraph Column, Oct 21, 2008, endorsing Barack Obama
The climax of absurdity to which the art may be carried, when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in the works of Boucher... His landscape, of which he was evidently fond, is pastoral; and such pastorality! the pastoral of the Opera house.
john constable— Notes of Six Lectures on Landscape Painting (1836), from C.R. Leslie, Memoirs of the Life of John Constable (1843), p. 343
Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst. The street is Pyncheon Street; the house is the old Pyncheon house; and an elm-tree, of wide circumference, rooted before the door, is familiar to every town-born child by the title of the Pyncheon Elm.
Nathaniel Hawthorne— Ch. I : The Old Pyncheon Family
The idea (for the painting ‘Room in New York’, 1932, ed.) had been in my mind a long time before I painted it. It was suggested by glimpses of lighted interiors seen as I walked along city streets at night, probably near the district where I live (Washington Square, New York, fh) although it’s no particular street or house, but is really a synthesis of many impressions.
Edward Hopper— 'Such a Life'’, in Life 102, August 1935, p. 48
This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands, This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
— William Shakespeare, Richard II (c. 1595) Act 2, scene 1, line 40.
At the outset the solemn asseverations of monarchs and leading statesmen in each nation that they did not want war must be placed on a par with the declarations of men who pour paraffin about a house knowing they are continually striking matches and yet assert they do not want a conflagration. This form of self-deception, which involved the deception of others, is fundamentally dishonest.
arthur ponsonby— Falsehood in Wartime: Propaganda Lies of the First World War, Introduction (1928)
Vastly inferior as this Court is to the house of Commons, considered as a body in the State, and amenable as its members may be for illconduct in their office to its animadversions and certainly are to its impeachment before the Lords, yet, as a Court of law, we know no superior but those Courts which may revise our judgments for error; and in this respect there is no common term of comparison between this Court and the house.
— Coleridge, J., Stockdale v. Hansard (1837), 3 St. Tr. (N. S.) 931. "I have yet to learn that this Court is to be restrained by the dignity or the power of anybody, however exalted, from fearlessly, though respectfully, examining their reasonableness and justice, where the rights of third parties, in litigation before us, depend upon their validity". Coleridge, J., id.
