Top 100 Own House Quotes
#1. Every night when I go to bed I think, In the morning I will wake up in my own house and things will be back the way they were.
It hasn't happened this morning, either.
Margaret Atwood
#2. I felt emptied-out and singing with echoes, unrecognizable to myself: that particular feeling like your own house on the day you move out.
Barbara Kingsolver
#3. I'm trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can't worry about someone else's house.
Bill Parcells
#4. It is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.
Myrtle Reed
#5. 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
#6. My laps-meter, the first caliper of the soul and the first hope of bridging the dread chasm that has rent the soul of Western man ever since the famous philosopher Descartes ripped body loose from mind and turned the very soul into a ghost that haunts its own house.
Walker Percy
#7. It is well to remember that the office of Chief Executive is in part a symbol of the nation and that leaders in a nation may differ in their own house but they have instant solidarity in the presence of foreign attack
Herbert Hoover
#8. Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family.
Kevin McCloud
#9. At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.
Earl Blumenauer
#10. I like fireworks too, but I set them off in gardens or kebab stands. I never set fire to my own house.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
#11. But don't I have any freedom of speech?"
"In your own house. Not in mine."
"Don't I have a right to my own ideas?"
"At your own expense. Not at mine."
"Don't you tolerate any differences of opinion?"
"Not when I'm paying the bills.
Ayn Rand
#12. So your first job is to work on yourself. The greatest thing you can do for another human being is to get your own house in order and find your true spiritual heart.
Ram Dass
#13. It's incredibly important that if you have the dream of having your own house, you don't pretend to be something you're not. Ultimately, it's unsustainable and people will see through. You have to work; you can't expect your dreams to be handed to you on a plate.
Stella McCartney
#14. I just want to be in the studio. When you've got all the gear you want in your own house, it's difficult to go out and do something else, you know?
Jeff Lynne
#15. That's what an idiot does when he gets angry. He destroys whatever's nearest, even if it's his own house!
Joe Abercrombie
#19. I had to learn to forgive. I couldn't sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn't want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.
Rodney King
#20. If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house, then in a field, ... it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.
John Calvin
#21. You are incredibly wise."
He laughed. "Only when it comes to other people. It's easy to see how to fix their lives. It's much harder to see the cracks in your own house.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#22. THREE DAYS LATER A MESSAGE WAS LEFT UNDER A PEBBLE UPON THE SUNDIAL." "'If it really annoys you, Hilton, we might go and travel, you and I, and so avoid this nuisance.' "'What, be driven out of our own house by a practical joker?
Arthur Conan Doyle
#23. I'm not even the most influential person in my own house.
Jeff Kinney
#24. I marvel at her - a woman with stocks and business suits and her own house.
Matthew Quick
#25. Hating someone is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. Invest your energy into something more worthwhile.
Perrie Edwards
#26. Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which individuals receive assistance in their days of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#27. No man burns down his own house on the theory that the need to rebuild it will stimulate his energies.
Henry Hazlitt
#28. I have two rules when you come to my house on Halloween. Wear a costume - 'cause if you've manned your door at your own house, you know how many kids will roll up, 14 years old with no costume and an attitude. My other rule: don't grab. Let me assess you and then design a candy situation for you.
Greg Behrendt
#29. His cloak was Lannister crimson, but his surcoat showed the ten purple mullets of his own House arrayed upon a yellow field.
George R R Martin
#30. I went upstairs to my office. Lay in the dark among my books. The only comforting thing I have. An exile in my own house, my own family. Maybe in my own country.
Philipp Meyer
#31. O how gently and how lovingly dost thou lie awake in the depth and centre of my soul, where thou in secret and in silence alone, as its sole Lord, abidest, not only as in Thine own house or in Thine own chamber, but also as within my own bosom, in close and intimate union.
San Juan De La Cruz
#32. People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
Horace
#33. I got my career start by first creating my own free, independent lifestyle in my own house out in the country. There I taught myself to make and later design furniture. I have continued to go my own way, always consciously needing to feel that I am moving forward.
David Trubridge
#34. No man is the boss of his own house, but he can make up for it, he thinks, by making a dog play dead.
W.C. Fields
#35. How shall a man judge what to do in such times?'
'As he ever has judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear ... It is a man's part to discern them, as much in th Golden Wood as in his own house.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#36. He really believes that to write a poem in praise of my mother (her eyes, her hair, her lips) and come by to read it aloud will soften her, make him welcome in his own house.
Ian McEwan
#37. The farmer was and remains the stumbling block to socialist experiments everywhere. Since he raises his own food and tends to live in his own house, he is less "controllable" than say, the urban dweller.
Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
#39. Justice pleaseth few in their owne house.
[Justice pleases few in their own house.]
George Herbert
#40. I do disapprove of the modern attitude that you can't do the simplest thing, like dying or being born, in your own house.
Ann Bridge
#41. Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history.
Elizabeth Edwards
#43. 'I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house' she said.
Evelyn Waugh
#44. What a man does in his own house cannot concern the nation.
Pearl S. Buck
#45. I in my own house am an emperor, And will defend what's mine.
Philip Massinger
#46. Keep your own house and its surroundings pure and clean. This hygiene will keep you healthy and benefit your worldly life.
Sathya Sai Baba
#47. I am not spending my final days in a hospital, nor will I turn my own house into one." Doctor
Kathryn Stockett
#48. When I leave my own house, there's always a part of me that stays behind, waiting for me to get back. That's what makes it my home - that feeling that a part of me is always waiting for me there.
David Levithan
#49. Her arms, wrapping around me like my own house, because she was the place I was from.
Margaret Stohl
#50. I can clean my own house. Now, maybe a couple of times a year we have a cleaning crew come in before we have a party, but otherwise, I'm able to maintain it myself.
Jen Lancaster
#51. No man who owns his own house and lot can be a Communist. He has too much to do.
William Levitt
#52. I'm not blaming anything on your mom, I'm way past that. It's just that she loved you so much, I always felt like kind of an interloper with you guys. Stranger-in-my-own-house kind of thing. You two were so close - " he laughed, sadly - "there wasn't much room for three.
Donna Tartt
#53. I believe that a country's first duty is to set its own house in order; and having set its own house in order, it can contribute better to the community of the world. Instead of being a weak link, it should be a strong link.
George Cadle Price
#54. Architecture might be more sportive and varied if every man built his own house, but it would not be the art and science that we have made it; and while every woman prepares food for her own family, cooking can never rise beyond the level of the amateur's work.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#55. The argument for getting our own house in order is not an argument for turning our back on the world. We cannot and should not do that.
Chris Christie
#56. We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people oughta do is get outside their own house and look in for a change.
John Michael Hayes
#57. She always said, 'When I'm home, I've got to get things done, even if there are visitors. Elizabeth knows how to relax in her own house.' And then she would shake her head, as if Elizabeth had remarkable powers.
Jane Smiley
#58. Bin Nassib came last night and visited me before going home to his own house; a tall, brown, polite Arab. He says that he lately received a packet for Mr. Stanley from the American Consul, sealed in tin, and sent it back: this is the eleventh that came to Stanley. A
David Livingstone
#60. In an extended family, anybody can bug out of his own house for months, and still be among relatives. Nobody has to go on a hopeless quest for friendly strangers, which is what most Americans have to do.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#61. I've burned my own house down, the torch is in my hand.Now I'll burn down the house of anyone who wants to follow me.
Kabir
#62. Probably not even a household name in his own house.
Teddy Atlas
#63. If we are to fight discrimination and injustice against women we must start from the home for if a woman cannot be safe in her own house then she cannot be expected to feel safe anywhere.
Aysha Taryam
#64. Fuck you," Sally says. She tosses the words off, easy as butter in her mouth, but in fact she doesn't think she's ever cursed out loud in her own house before.
"Fuck you twice," Gillian says. "You need it more.
Alice Hoffman
#65. Human megalomania will have suffered its third and most wounding blow from the psychological research of the present time which seeks to prove to the ego that it is not even master in its own house, but must content itself with scanty information of what is going on unconsciously in its mind.
Sigmund Freud
#66. If you want to be equal with me, you can get your own Rolls-Royce, your own house and your own million dollars.
Muhammad Ali
#67. My friend, you thought you lost Him;
that all your life you've been separated from Him.
Filled with wonder, you've always looked outside for Him,
and haven't searched within your own house.
Rumi
#69. Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
Patrick Macnee
#70. Michael's Powell art director was a painter and they had a wonderful friendship and artistic understanding. Michael himself, in the way he designed his own house, it was always with bright colours. Very un-English!
Thelma Schoonmaker
#71. A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.
Matthew McConaughey
#72. Second, and far more powerfully, we want to believe that parents create criminals because in supposing that, we reassure ourselves that in our own house, where we are not doing such wrong things, we do not risk this calamity. I
Sue Klebold
#73. Never, but never, go sneaking around in your own house at odds with some stranger.
Craig Johnson
#74. And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto
Anonymous
#75. You have got to clean your own house first before you tell other people that they aren't doing it right.
Dan Webster
#76. Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the
fool no where but in's own house.
William Shakespeare
#77. You are incredibly wise. (Kat)
Only when it comes to other people. It's easy to see how to fix their lives. It's much harder to see the cracks in your own house. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#78. The glass ceiling doesn't apply when you're building your own house
Heidi Roizen
#79. And so what? I just killed a demon in my own house, and you're going to be a dickhead about it because I'm not some spoiled-rotten rich brat like you and your sister?" Alec looked astonished. "What did you call me?
Cassandra Clare
#80. What kinda women you is? You gonna let a man lay up on another woman in your own house and not do nothing about it?
Bernice L. McFadden
#81. We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada.
Pierre Trudeau
#82. She was going to be mine, but then my landlord said no dogs." "You live in your own house." "I'm awfully strict.
Jill Shalvis
#83. All is true, - so true, that every one can discern the elements of the tragedy in his own house, perhaps in his own heart.
Honore De Balzac
#84. As far as I'm concerned, the stakes are always very high. Whether it's playing at the White House or playing for a group in my own house - you know, one of those soirees I play in. Once I start playing, the stakes are somehow higher, in a way, than any of the context.
Joshua Bell
#85. It is easier for a man to burn down his own house than to get rid of his prejudices.
Roger Bacon
#86. In my own house, I rigged up a laboratory and studied chemistry in the evenings, determined that there should be nothing in the manufacture of steel that I would not know.
Charles M. Schwab
#87. But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.
George Cadbury
#88. I have six acres in front of my own house, which I very rarely work on. Most of the work occurs on farmers' fields around me. And I like the discipline of working on other people's land.
Andy Goldsworthy
#90. I'm jealous of her. Can you be jealous of your mom for being able to handle things? I couldn't take a day off, take a dog to the vet, and cook dinner. That's like three times too much stuff for me to get done in one day. How am I ever going to have my own house?
Ned Vizzini
#91. I have a great family, good friends, a nice girlfriend, my own house. I have got everything how I want it to be.
Michael Owen
#92. If something
goes wrong, accuse yourself first. Don't be like Pharaoh chopping off the heads
of innocent babies, when the enemy he is looking for, Moses, was in his own house.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#93. Why a slow death in a strange country if you can die on the threshold of your own house?
Refugees don't exist.
Only blown away people exist,
people blown by the wind
all over the world.
Ad De Bont
#94. We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do.
Marina Abramovic
#97. The man who could withstand, with his fellow-men in single line, a charge of cavalry may lose all command of himself on the occurrence of a fire in his own house, because of some homely reminiscence unknown to the observing bystander.
Arthur Helps
#98. There's no law that says I can't cook in my own house.
- Charlie Swan
Stephenie Meyer
#100. Think what devils chase a man who cannot sleep in his own house.
Warren Eyster
