House Quotes - Page 29

• My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other's houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.

  Beau Bridges

  Mom, Brother, Jobs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We had two rules growing up in my house: If you're going to take a shower, do it with whomever you're dating so you don't waste water; and if you buy one for yourself, buy six, because everybody's going to want one.

  Moon Unit Zappa

  Growing Up, Two, Water

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• My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.

  Anne Rice

  Flower, White, Funeral

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• May there always be peace, love and happiness in every house.

  Islom Karimov

  Love, Happiness, Peace

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• If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly. If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted so that I might share in what I was entitled to share. If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Friendship, Moving, Doors

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• Earth, thou great footstool of our God, who reigns on high; thou fruitful source of all our raiment, life, and food; our house, our parent, and our nurse.

  Isaac Watts

  Life, Nurse, Parent

  Isaac Watts (1802). “The Poetical Works of Isaac Watts, D.D. With the Life of the Author ... Embellished with Superb Engravings”, p.60

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• Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you.

  Wendy Liebman

  Doctors, Parent, Want

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• The White House has a choice: They can change course, or they can double down on a vision of government that the American people have roundly rejected.

  Mitch McConnell

  Government, White, People

  "McConnell: GOP Plans To Stop 'Liberal Onslaught'". "All Things Considered" with David Welna, www.npr.org. November 4, 2010.

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• We all went to Kelsey's wedding, and yeah, we go to parties. We also go to each other's house. A group of us got together over at Kelsey's and just read through some plays just for the fun of it. That may not be everyone's idea of a good time, but we had a good time.

  David Hyde Pierce

  Wedding, Fun, Party

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• Cut out doors and windows for the house. The holes make it useful.

  Laozi

  Cutting, Doors, Taoism

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• My ambition is to not have to work any more. In 10 years I want to stop, and I want to be living with my family, taking care of my house. I want to be a housewife.

  Paz Vega

  Ambition, Years, Care

  "Viva La Vega". Interview with Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2005.

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• You know, when a president is about to leave office, most of the time most people are dying for him to go on and get out of there. But there are a few little rituals that have to be observed. One of them is that the president must host the incoming president in the White House, smile as if they love each other and give the American people the idea that democracy is peaceful and honourable and there will be a good transfer of power

  Nancy Gibbs

  White, Ideas, Office

  Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy (2012). “The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity”, p.502, Simon and Schuster

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• In his final remarks to the White House staff, on the day he resigned his office, Nixon applied a version of the lesson to himself. “Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Hate, Winning, White

  Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy (2012). “The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• At another house two women learned very fast; I say women, but one was a girl about twelve or thirteen, already married, however. There was a little child about three years old. My sister asked, 'Who is the True God's Son?' The little thing replied, in a very sweet voice, 'Jesus.'

  Lottie Moon

  Girl, Sweet, Jesus

  Lottie Moon, Keith Harper (2002). “Send the Light: Lottie Moon's Letters and Other Writings”, p.181, Mercer University Press

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• Every evening, I come home tired and have just enough energy to fill out the endless tax forms, to pay bills, not to let my house neglected and to hear the radio concert for an hour.

  Fritz Zwicky

  Home, Tired, Bills

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• One day, when I own a house, I'll keep a library full of books. Books are different from other possessions-they're more like friends.

  Blake Mycoskie

  Book, One Day, Library

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• My house is me and I am it. My house is where I like to be and it looks like all my dreams.

  Daniel Pinkwater

  Dream, Looks

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• In closing, let me just thank God, on the floor of the House, for not turning away from us even though we seem to be turning away from Him.

  Zach Wamp

  Thank God, Let Me, Closing

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• You’re talking about Rwanda or Bangladesh, or Cambodia, or the Philippines. They’ve got democracy, according to Freedom House. But have you got a civilised life to lead? People want economic development first and foremost. The leaders may talk something else. You take a poll of any people. What is it they want? The right to write an editorial as you like? They want homes, medicine, jobs, schools.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Jobs, School, Home

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• There haven't been fundamental structural changes in America. There's been a very important symbolic change and that is the election of Barack Obama. But the only black people who truly live in a post-racial world in America all live in a very nice house on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Nice, America, People

  "Skip Gates Speaks". Interview with Dayo Olopade, www.theroot.com. July 21, 2009.

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• I need people to call me, I never remember to call anyone - otherwise I'll just sit in my house and listen to music all day.

  John Frusciante

  People, Needs, Remember

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• And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.

  Josef Albers

  Father, Glasses, Childhood

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• It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home

  Edgar Guest

  Home

  "Home" l. 1 (1916)

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• I think in a sense this is a house that was built on a bad foundation. And the foundation was the Americans coming here and allowing the sacking, burning and plunder of Baghdad, for whatever reason.

  Jon Lee Anderson

  Thinking, Foundation, Baghdad

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• Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood.

  Nick Mancuso

  Country, Growing Up, Two Nations

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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