Old Houses Quotes

• Old houses are full with memories and that's why they resist to collapse!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Memories, House, Collapse

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• Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Love, Marriage, Missing You

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “The Poet at the Breakfast Table”, p.33, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Old houses, I thought, do not belong to people ever, not really, people belong to them.

  Gladys Taber

  People, House

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• An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Home, Eye, Thinking

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “Anne of Avonlea”, p.18, First Avenue Editions

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• The moment you let your courage leave you, you turn to an abandoned old house!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  House, Moments, Abandoned

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• Originality in literature is only a new coat of paint on an old house.

  Austin O'Malley

  House, Literature, Coats

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• Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Dark, Garden, House

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• I like old people when they have aged well. And old houses with an accumulation of sweet honest living in them are good. And the timelessness that only the passing of Time itself can give to objects both inside and outside the spirit is a continuing reassurance.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Sweet, Time, People

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• Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they're ended.

  Colley Cibber

  Party, House, Cost

  Colley Cibber (1761). “The double gallant: or, The sick lady's cure”, p.7

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• The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Men, House, Hobbies

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• My dream is to have a beautiful old house in Monaco.

  Eva Herzigova

  Beautiful, Dream, House

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• I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.

  Daryl Hall

  House, Antiques, Architecture

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• And there were times when one yielded quite shamelessly to the sentimental. They were more likely to be times of crickets, I think, than of birds - when it was impossible not to feel, like another essence of the sunlight, the bittersweet of life that lingers about old houses, and places where men have died, and things that forgotten hands have touched.

  Harrison Gray Otis Dwight

  Life, Death, Men

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• We came to the house, and it is an old house, full of great chimneys where wood is burnt on ancient dogs upon the hearth, and grim portraits (some of them with grim legends, too) lower distrustfully from the oaken panels of the walls.

  Charles Dickens

  Dog, Wall, Heart

  Charles Dickens (2011). “A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories”, p.91, Penguin

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• I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house.

  John Forbes Nash

  Memories, Grandmother, Play

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• All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the family. Nobody told you to read this or not to read that.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Children, Book, House

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.79, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I would love to take an old space and restore it to exactly the way I want it. Like an old factory, just something with great bones and lots of character. I'd take an old house and flip it into something very modern inside, or the other way around.

  Jason Wu

  Character, Space, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be . . .

  Henry James

  Fire, House, Stories

  Henry James (2010). “The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories”, p.154, Broadview Press

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• And so we stayed out in the garden of the old house until we couldn't kick a ball, laughing in the gathering twilight, making the most of the good weather and all the days that were left, our little game watched only by next door's cat, and every star in the heavens.

  Tony Parsons

  Stars, Twilight, Cat

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• Man is made of the wholly common, and custom is his nurse; woe then to them who lay irreverent hands on his old house-furniture, the dear inheritance from his forefathers: For time consecrates, and what is gray with age becomes religion.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, Hands, Nurse

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.1260, 谷月社

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• We don't have to remain in this radically destructive mind-set and institutional-set. We can change, and the natural order of things could emerge in all of our societal organizations-government, commerce, religion-it's right there, waiting to happen. I often tell people that every mind is like a room in an old house, stuffed with very old furniture. Take any space in your mind and empty it of your old conceptions and new ones will rush in, good or bad. So change is more a getting rid of rather than an adding to or an acquiring.

  Dee Hock

  Change, Government, Order

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• If you go to old houses on Long Island you will see painted Chinese wallpaper, which was big in the 18th century. Throughout history, notable, established families have always tried to link to the 18th century.

  Catherine Martin

  Islands, Long, House

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• One of my weekend hobbies is to go look at old houses when there are open houses around here. Just to go look at the architecture. And you can see how many houses were built around 1977, the year where everyone said, "Let's put in these aluminum windows instead of beautiful hand-made wood ones."

  Daniel Clowes

  Beautiful, Weekend, Hands

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2011.

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• In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines 74 lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.

  Ludwig Bemelmans

  Girl, Two, Paris

  1939 Madeline.

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• And now my old dog is dead, and another I had after him, and my parents are dead, and that first world, that old house, is sold and lost, and the books I gathered there lost, or sold- but more books bought, and in another place, board by board and stone by stone, like a house, a true life built, and all because I was steadfast about one or two things: loving foxes, and poems, the blank piece of paper, and my own energy- and mostly the shimmering shoulders of the world that shrug carelessly over the fate of any individual that they may, the better, keep the Niles and Amazons flowing.

  Mary Oliver

  Dog, Book, Fate

  Mary Oliver (2016). “Upstream: Selected Essays”, p.17, Penguin

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