Build Your House Quotes

#1. Build your house with the stones they hurled at you

Erri De Luca

#2. But see? Then you got all human on me the other night, and it's official. I'm there, Henry. I'm ... I'm ready for the Henry lifestyle. And I know you've only gotten your toes wet in Lake Justin right now, but I want you to come in, take a swim, and build your house out here, okay?

Amy Lane

#3. You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so ... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you.

Duke Of Wellington

#4. To build your house on the rock is to hear what Jesus says and obey. To be foolish and build your house on the sand is to hear and ignore.

Kevin DeYoung

#5. Always trust your fellow man. And always cut the cards. Always trust God. And always build your house on high ground. Always love thy neighbor. And always pick a good neighborhood to live in.

Robert Fulghum

#6. Build your house on the rock of learning; no one can take your education away from you.

John Spence

#7. Each work of criticism is supposed to build on the body of work, to increase the total sum of human understanding. It's not like filling your house with more and more beautiful wicker baskets. It's supposed to be cumulative - it believes in progress.

Elif Batuman

#8. Your goal is to achieve the best results by following their wishes. If they want you to build a house upside down standing on its chimney, it's up to you to do it.

Richard Morris Hunt

#9. Build of your imaginings a bower in the wilderness ere you build a house within the city walls.

Kahlil Gibran

#10. So considering how the current official religion of China seems to be something like "Stand still while we bulldoze your house to build this dam" it's hard to put a finger on the relationship between ancient Chinese tales and any specific religion.

Cory O'Brien

#11. So what makes me happy? I was really happy to build this house. That's it; building things. The trouble with software is that it's very hard to show your aunt in Florida what you've done.

Larry Ellison

#12. Understatement has become part of the tradition. A proposal to build a history room to house the football team's memorabilia was immediately shelved when many former players complained. What makes this program so special is what you carry in your heart, they argued, not what you hang on the wall.

Neil Hayes

#13. Jason always tried to build a good relationship with his team. He'd learned the hard way that if somebody was going to have your back in a fight, it was better if you found some common ground and trusted each other. But Nico wasn't easy to figure out.

Rick Riordan

#14. Fit the parts together, one into the other, and build your figure like a carpenter builds a house. Everything must be constructed, composed of parts that make a whole ...

Henri Matisse

#15. It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house.

Kahlil Gibran

#16. People will watch you build a house, but won't pass you a brick. And once your home is built, they want to come inside for dinner.

Andrea L'Artiste

#17. If you throw me out of this house, I shall sleep on the path outside. If you return to the Continent without me, I shall follow you. I will build a willow hut at your gate; I will sleep under your window; I will be waiting for you at your own front door.

Eloisa James

#18. To pray is to build your own house. To pray is to discover that Someone else is within your house. To pray is to recognize that it is not your house at all.

Richard Rohr

#19. Start locally and build. Start small and grow. Start in your house, then move to your school, your book club, your gym, your church, your temple, your city.

Laurie David

#20. Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#21. My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple.

Masa Takayama

#22. When I started to run, I would run a mile and then walk a mile and kept building up as time went on. If you are running on the street, go one mailbox or one house further each day. It also helps to build up your endurance!

Heidi Klum

#23. The only real security is not insurance or money or a job, not a house and furniture paid for, or a retirement fund, and never is it another person. It is the skill and humor and courage within, the ability to build your own fires and find your own peace.

Audrey Sutherland

#24. Plot comes first. The plot is the archictecture of your novel. You wouldn't build a house without a plan. If I wrote without a plot, it would just be a pile of bricks. Characters are your servants. They must serve your plot.

Barbara Kingsolver

#25. To his and everybody else's way of thinking, you should build a house with your own hands before you start talking about being an engineer.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#26. No one is guaranteed happiness. It's not a human right. It's a house you have to build yourself. Your family and friends can help, but they're all busy building their own houses too. You're just bitter because you built a shit house.

Exurb1a

#27. Selling one's book to Hollywood is rather like selling someone your house. After it's sold, it isn't yours anymore. They can paint it a different color, tear it down and build something new, or do anything they want.

Rick Riordan

#28. The ceaseless labor of your life is to build the house of death.

Michel De Montaigne

#29. That is the heart and soul of the American dream, homeownership, the idea of being able to buy a house and start to build your family.

Wendell Pierce

#30. If you put down a good, solid foundation and build one room after another, pretty soon you have a house. You build in your speedwork, your pace and increase your ability to run races and think races out. Then it's possible to run the way we do.

Rod Dixon