Dwelling House Quotes

#1. With six small diamonds for his eyes
He walks upon the summer skies,
Drawing from his silken blouse
The lacework of his dwelling house.

Robert P. T. Coffin

#2. The woman who had been born in an imperial palace, and then, as Queen of France, had had hundreds of rooms in her dwelling house, was now imprisoned in a tiny basement cell, its walls streaming with damp, and its grated window half occluded.

Stefan Zweig

#3. A well-made poem is a little haunted house, a tangible dwelling place for the spirit

Daniel Veach

#4. Whether or not the person I think of as me undergoes any essential changes, the earth never stops circling the sun at it's old speed.

Haruki Murakami

#5. But when you dwell in a house you mislike, you will look out of a window a deal more than those that are content with their dwelling.

Mary Webb

#6. There Was an Old Woman Called Nothing-at-All,
Who Lived in a Dwelling Exceedingly Small;
A Man Stretched His Mouth to the Utmost Extent,
And Down at One Gulp House and Old Woman Went.

Sharon Olds

#7. The first meeting-houses were often built in the valleys, in the meadow lands; for the dwelling-houses must be clustered around them, since the colonists were ordered by law to build their new homes within half a mile of the meeting-house.

Alice Morse Earle

#8. The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.

Stephen Gardiner

#9. Oh, Brother. No matter your wreckage. There will be someone to find you beautiful, despite the cruddy metal. Your ruin is not to be hidden behind paint and canvas. Let them see the cracks.

Sarah Kay

#10. Every decision you make is an important one, whether there are twenty thousand people working for you or just one.

Donald Trump

#11. The Lord said unto me, 'I will take my rest and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs.

Anonymous

#12. The majority of the common people do not realize how corrupt the legal system has become until that blatant corruption shows up at their own homes.

Steven Magee

#13. I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

Michael Phelps

#14. I do not wish my house to be walled and my windows stuffed. I want all cultures to blow freely through my dwelling.

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. Therefore, the places in which we have experienced day dreaming reconstitute themselves in a new daydream, and it is because our memories of former dwelling-places are relived as day-dreams these dwelling-places of the past remain in us for all the time.

Gaston Bachelard

#16. We shouldn't just live for today; we should prepare for tomorrow.

Kent Conrad

#17. Your house is not your home.
My world is not your world.
Your thoughts are your home
where you're dwelling all along.

Debasish Mridha

#18. The path of temptation is gradual and intelligent, not as sudden and random as it seems.

Russell D. Moore

#19. Jesus has no house, because his house is the people; it is we who are his dwelling place; his mission is to open God's doors to all, to be the presence of God's love.

Pope Francis

#20. The idea that everyone should have a house of his own is based on an ancient custom of the Japanese race, Shinto superstition ordaining that every dwelling should be evacuated on the death of its chief occupant.

Kakuzo Okakura

#21. There is none dwelling in the house but God. When a man is awakened he melts and perishes.

Rumi

#22. Where Solomon says that 'Wisdom has built herself a house' (Prov. 9:1), he refers darkly in these words to the preparation of the flesh of the Lord: for the true Wisdom did not dwell in another's building, but built for Itself that dwelling-place from the body of the Virgin.

Gregory Of Nyssa

#23. Lord, this humble house we'd keep Sweet with play and calm with sleep. Help us so that we may give Beauty to the lives we live. Let Thy love and let Thy grace Shine upon our dwelling place.

Edgar Guest

#24. The security staff boasted that a squirrel could not get onto the grounds without their knowledge. However, they could not explain a family of deer that seemed to come and go as they pleased.

Richard Turner

#25. When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our God is a house-hold God, as well as a heavenly one; He has an altar in every man's dwelling.

John Ruskin

#26. If youre not living awake to the fact the life can change in a dime, then youre living asleep ...

Kristine Carlson

#27. She thinks of him lying there, the beautiful moment never arriving, never ruined, never disappointing, over. It must be sublime dwelling in that house of longing, forever poised on desire's trembling tip, before everything is wrecked.

Susan Johnson

#28. One recurring dream, many others have also: you go into a familiar house, discover a door or hallway, and find the house continues into hidden rooms. Sometimes a whole second house is there, a larger and unknown extension of the familiar dwelling.

Jane Hirshfield

#29. The Bible does say, "My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations." Preaching, music, the reading of the Word-these things are fine-but they must never override prayer as the defining mark of God's dwelling.

Jim Cymbala

#30. Covering my free hand with my head, my

Alexandra Bracken

#31. I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.

Tatiana De Rosnay