Quotes About Building Houses

#1. People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.

Aristotle.

#2. The Bible talks about building houses on sand and rock, but says nothing about a brick house built on a blanket.

Nicole McKay

#3. Building houses and mansion ranching is not ranching.

Jon Tester

#4. Snow White gets a Social Security card. She gets a job building houses out in California. Picks oranges.

Catherynne M Valente

#5. Surely something must be terribly wrong with a man who seems to be far more concerned with Jews building houses in Israel than with Muslims building a nuclear bomb in Iran.

Burt Prelutsky

#6. The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.

Edward Burnett Tylor

#7. The proper form of economy must be observed in building houses for each and every class.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#8. Culture is everything. Culture is the way we dress, the way we carry our heads, the way we walk, the way we tie our ties - it is not only the fact of writing books or building houses.

Aime Cesaire

#9. I want to understand the piers of language and music and comprehension that can hold up a building even when what the building houses is an earthquake. This thinking must surely come into the poems I write, but more by osmosis than will.

Jane Hirshfield

#10. If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them
structures which neither Plato nor Archimedes had dreamed possible.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#11. [Addressed to Berlusconi who wanted to impose himself on the editorial style of "Il Giornale"] In the art of entrepeneurship, you are certainly a genius, and I an asshole. But in the art of argument the genius is me, and you the asshole.

Indro Montanelli

#12. Most people spend their lives building financial houses of straws, which are susceptible to wind, fire, rain and big bad wolves.

Robert Kiyosaki

#13. The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one's own strength makes one modest.

Paul Cezanne

#14. The dining room is a building; the bathroom is a building. If we scatter this single-program architecture inside of a domestic environment, we can link an interior urbanism in a way similar to a village or a township of tiny houses.

Jimenez Lai

#15. He'd watch the loading and unloading of boats; the building of houses, shacks, and huts; and above all, the people, each carrying a bundle of stories inside them.

Marcus Sedgwick

#16. Dawn is purely a work of fiction, but I wrote it to look at myself in a new way. Obviously I did not live this tale, but I was implicated in its ethical dilemma from the moment that I assumed my character's place.

Elie Wiesel

#17. All the support from all my friends, All my family over the years, I appreciate it.

Kevin Durant

#18. I don't remember not playing games. I think my pre-industry experience is me building LEGO houses and wishing people would go through them.

Brenda Brathwaite

#19. Be vary wary of people who declare that they're going to create heaven on earth, they almost invariably create hell.

Francois Lelord

#20. Therefore let the Saints be diligent in building the Temple, and all houses which they have been, or shall hereafter be, commanded of God to build; and wait their time with patience in all meekness, faith, perseverance unto the end.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#21. We owe it to the fields that our houses will not be the inferiors of the virgin land they have replaced. We owe it to the worms and the trees that the building we cover them with will stand as promises of the highest and most intelligent kinds of happiness.

Alain De Botton

#22. I'm calculating, self-sufficient, reserved, and I enjoy being alone.

Melissa Sue Anderson

#23. I feel like I'm meant to be a mom.

Kaley Cuoco

#24. Oh, yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone.

Rainbow Rowell

#25. Ludlow ... is probably the loveliest town in England with its hill of Georgian houses ascending from the river Teme to the great tower of the cross-shaped church, rising behind a classic market building.

John Betjeman

#26. As we manipulate everyday words, we forget that they are fragments of ancient and eternal stories, that we are building our houses with broken pieces of sculptures and ruined statues of gods as the barbarians did.

Bruno Schulz

#27. If the sea level rises 6 inches, that's a big deal ... we can't mitigate that; we can't stop it. We've just got to stop building vast houses on seashores and go back a little bit.

Rupert Murdoch

#28. No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.

Michael Ende

#29. 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

#30. Nothing can prevent the united consumer from working for themselves with the aid of mutual credit, from building factories, workshops, houses for themselves, from acquiring land; nothing - if only they have a will and begin.

Gustav Landauer

#31. It seemed we Chechens spend our energies building our houses and our lives, only to have the devastated and to start rebuilding them again.

Khassan Baiev

#32. The healers' university looked exactly as Tessia had imagined. Her father had described it as an 'old but strange building that has adopted and absorbed surrounding houses as opportunity and funds allowed'. It sounded confusing and intriguing, and it was.

Trudi Canavan

#33. I had a blog and was documenting my life as a college student in an art school. I had a few comments left by a few girls asking if I could do a tutorial on how I did my makeup. I didn't think my makeup was all that special, but I try my best to share whatever I can with my viewers.

Michelle Phan

#34. What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and devious men. Drama and action with emotional ramifications. Frocks. Kissing. Swords. An intense impression of history in the world-building.

Tansy Rayner Roberts

#35. I believe in the near future we will 3D print our buildings and houses.

Neri Oxman

#36. I was dishwasher, then promoted to chef in a local kitchen in a restaurant in Seattle, and I was working on a building site as well, putting in insulation and painting houses, and then doing some classes at a community college nearby.

Alexis Denisof