Hovel Quotes

#1. In a sooty kettle. In one corner, orange-colored sodas were stacked in wooden crates. I had never been in such a wretched hovel.

Jan-Philipp Sendker

#2. I was born in a hovel on the banks of the Tyne, as so many of us were back then.

David Almond

#3. Ask yourself, if all men must grub in the dirt for food, how shall any man lift his eyes to contemplate the stars? If each of us must break his back to build a hovel, who shall raise the temples to glorify the gods?

George R R Martin

#4. All that gleaming leather and gold stamping and beautiful type belongs in the pine-panelled library of an English country home; it wants to be read by the fire in a gentleman's leather easy chair--not on a secondhand studio couch in a one-room hovel in a broken-down brownstone front.

Helene Hanff

#5. I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.

Jacqueline Cochran

#6. Skirts of the unknown, and the white men rushing out of a tumble-down hovel, with great gestures

Joseph Conrad

#7. Wherever is love and loyalty, great purposes and lofty souls, even though in a hovel or a mine, there is fairyland.

Charles Kingsley

#8. On Collateral Damage: "Every limb lost, every hovel burned, every wife left husbandless, and every child orphaned created ripples of anger and resentment. Create enough of them, and we'll one day wind up with a wave that will wash us off the map.

Chris Holm

#9. A great man may commence life in a hovel.

Publilius Syrus

#10. Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

Emily Bronte

#11. I, on the other hand, have no faith that your mission - whatever it is - can succeed. I'm content to bide my time here in this tiny, damp, worm-infested hovel and wait for the world to end. Cheers.

Gillian Bronte Adams

#12. Music is a holy place, a cathedral so majestic that we can sense the magnificence of the universe, and also a hovel so simple and private that none of us can plumb its deepest secrets.

Don Campbell

#13. I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel
Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.

Charles Stuart Calverley

#14. Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.

James Whistler

#15. How pretty it is here!
It was an awful hovel, but she felt free.

Victor Hugo

#16. [T]he blossom of benevolence, of charity, is the fairest flower, no matter whether it blooms by the side of a hovel, or bursts from a vine climbing the marble pillar of a palace. I respect no man because he is rich; I hold in contempt no man because he is poor.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#17. Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Horace

#18. Have you seen these Japanese hospital droids, or humanoids, or whatever they call it? They've perfected the skin, and the skin looks so real. They have these motors between the eyes for when they smile. It's just mind-blowing.

Joel Kinnaman

#19. ideas are alive, that ideas do seek the most available human collaborator, that ideas do have a conscious will, that ideas do move from soul to soul, that ideas will always try to seek the swiftest and most efficient conduit to the earth (just as lightning does).

Elizabeth Gilbert

#20. Only when we stop holding others accountable for all of our troubles can we truly be free.

Tian Dayton

#21. Then Sister Aquinata abandoned the nonviolent methods and produced a rolling pin from somewhere.

Mary Robinette Kowal

#22. Don't confuse what FEELS right, for what IS right.

Todd Wagner

#23. Ahhh, darlin', the women won't even glance my way."
She squeezed. "If they do, they'll learn that I'm a damn good shot.

Carolyn Brown

#24. But even a wonderful soloist needs a song. Even a pitch-perfect voice needs a message.

David Pietrusza

#25. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

G.K. Chesterton

#26. July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion.

John Adams

#27. And what of that? Is not a day divided into twenty-four hours, each hour into sixty minutes, and every minute sub-divided into sixty seconds? Now, in 86,400 seconds very many things can be done.

Alexandre Dumas

#28. Poison's not bad. It's a matter of how much.

Keith Richards