House Quotes - Page 10

• His master’s pain was his pain. And it hurt him more for his master to be sick than for him to be sick himself. When the house started burning down, that type of Negro would fight harder to put the master’s house out than the master himself would. But then you had another Negro out in the field. The house Negro was in the minority. The masses—the field Negroes were the masses. They were in the majority. When the master got sick, they prayed that he’d die. If his house caught on fire, they'd pray for a wind to come along and fan the breeze.

  Malcolm X

  Hurt, Pain, Fighting

  Malcolm X (1989). “Malcolm X: The Last Speeches”, Pathfinder Press

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• You have three people in the White House that are in love with eugenics or whatever it is you would call it today.

  Glenn Beck

  White, Eugenics, People

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.nbcnews.com. August 6, 2009.

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• I have been informed repeatedly that in lieu of records, I would be expected to testify about my service in the White House to demonstrate my experience and judicial philosophy.

  Harriet Miers

  Philosophy, White, Would Be

  "Miers Withdraws Nomination". www.foxnews.com. October 27, 2005.

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• I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition.

  Thelonious Monk

  Party, Prohibition, Used

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• I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.

  Maurice Sendak

  Mourning, Grew Up, States

  "'Where the Wild Things Are:' The Psychology Behind Maurice Sendak's Classic" by Mikaela Conley, abcnews.go.com. May 8, 2012.

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• But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.

  Sidney Blumenthal

  White, President, Lessons

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• I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Writing, Cleaning, Ifs

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• Oh thrice fools are we who like new-born princes weeping in the cradle know not that there is a kingdom before them then let our Lord's sweet hand square us and hammer us and strike off the knots of pride self-love and world-worship and infidelity that He may make us stones and pillars in His Father's house.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Sweet, Father, Pride

  Samuel Rutherford, Hamilton Smith (2008). “Extracts from the Letters of Samuel Rutherford”, p.49, Scripture Truth

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• Trees are massacred, houses go up — faces, faces everywhere. Man is spreading. Man is the cancer of the earth.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Cancer, Men, Tree

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• That's what music is to me. Like, stuff that I really like to play loud. And I've got my quiet CDs, too, that I listen to around the house, but if you can't go there, then... Everyone gets so upset with me, I can't win

  Liz Phair

  Winning, Cds, Play

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• In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.

  Bill Laswell

  Atmosphere, Quality, Bass

  "OHM - The Early Gurus of Electronic Music". Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. April 2000.

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• But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up living next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman.

  John Green

  Florida, Doors, Miracle

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.3, A&C Black

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• Man, I've got a Rolls-Royce. Big house. Limo. All those things. This is why every kid's dream is to be a major-league ballplayer.

  Lou Whitaker

  Dream, Kids, Men

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• Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power. Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their power and money by making monumental architecture. I love to make monuments, too, but I thought perhaps we can use our experience and knowledge more for the general public, even for those who have lost their houses in natural disasters.

  Shigeru Ban

  People, Architecture, Invisible

  "Paper Palaces" by Dana Goodyear, www.newyorker.com. August 11, 2014.

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• It's time to replace career politicians with citizen's politicians. It's time to elect people who are going to stand up to the Washington elite and stand up to a White House and Congress hell-bent on ramming socialism down our throat

  Christine O'Donnell

  Careers, White, People

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• The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution

  Albert C. Barnes

  Art, Museums, Philadelphia

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• I must hurry back to my house and my flowers in Monaco.

  Lillie Langtry

  Flower, Monaco

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• You can replace houses. You can't replace people. I mean, it's left me speechless. I was talking to P.J. (Brown) about it. When the storm hit, I just kept it on CNN and watched the whole thing. Just seeing Canal Street, knowing I was there just a few days before storm and seeing all those stores I went in being under water. Unbelievable.

  Chris Paul

  Mean, Talking, Knowing

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• Before (the Palestinians) very eyes we are possessing the land and the villages where they and their ancestors have lived We are the generation of colonizers and without the steel helmet and the gun barrel we cannot plant a tree and build a house.

  Moshe Dayan

  Eye, Gun, Land

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• Children will draw pictures with everything in them...houses and trees and people and animals...and the sun AND the moon. Grown-up says, "That's a nice picture, Honey, but you put the moon and the sun in the sky at the same time and that isn't right." But the child is right! The sun and moon are in the sky at the same time.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, Nice, Animal

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• I have a house where I go,
  When there's too many people,
  I have a house where I go
  Where no one can be;
  I have a house where I go,
  Where nobody ever says "no"
  Where no one says anything - so
  There is no one but me.

  A. A. Milne

  People, Say Anything

  A. A. Milne (2011). “Now We Are Six”, p.9, Egmont UK

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• People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.

  Aristotle

  Player, Building Houses, People

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• Plenty of people did not care for him much, but then there is a huge difference between disliking somebody - maybe even disliking them a lot - and actually shooting them, strangling them, dragging them through the fields and setting their house on fire.

  Douglas Adams

  Differences, Fire, People

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• A. T. Stewart started life with a dollar and fifty cents. This merchant prince began by calling at the doors of houses in order to sell needles, thread and buttons. He soon found the people did not want them, and his small stock was thrown back on his hands. Then he said wisely, "I'll not buy any more of these goods, but I'll go and ask people what they do want." Thereafter he studied the needs and desires of people, found out just what they most wanted, endeavored to meet those wants, and became the greatest business man of his time.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Business, Men, Hands

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• If Thy dear home be fuller, Lord, For that a little emptier. My house on earth, what rich rewards. That guerdon were.

  Amy Carmichael

  Christian, Inspiration, Home

  Amy Carmichael (2012). “Fragments that Remain”, p.22, CLC Publications

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