Quotes About Homeownership

#1. High levels of homeownership have been shown to foster greater involvement in school and civic organizations, higher graduation rates, and greater neighborhood stability.

Ben Bernanke

#2. It's time to remove the stigma associated with promoting homeownership.

Julian Castro

#3. I'm not attacking the idea that people live in conglomerations of houses in proximity to one another, sharing the same water mains and the same newspaper delivery boy and so forth. I'm not objecting to that. That could happen with or without homeownership.

Edmund Phelps

#4. The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.

Edmund Phelps

#5. I have done a lot of work for affordable housing, rental housing. I understand the rap on me and other liberals is, oh, we push poor people into homeownership. And it's exactly the opposite of the case. We were trying to prevent those kinds of bad loans.

Barney Frank

#6. Although housing sales and starts have cooled to more typical levels, the housing market remains strong and sound. Without the expansion of homeownership and the strength of our housing market, our nation would not have the economic growth we are experiencing today.

Randy Neugebauer

#7. The truth is that the dream of homeownership is out of reach for too many Americans.

Julian Castro

#8. From a social point of view, it's beneficial that homeownership encourages commitment to a given town or city. But, from an economic point of view, it's good for people to be able to leave places where there's less work and move to places where there's more.

James Surowiecki

#9. I don't know exactly why the notion of homeownership has such a grasp on the American imagination. Perhaps as descendants of landless immigrants we turn our plots into symbols of stability.

Ellen Goodman

#10. Homes-the very idea of homeownership-evoke a strong emotional reaction in all of us.

Spencer Rascoff

#11. More Americans own their home than ever before. Nearly 70 percent of American's are homeowners. So it is a good time for us to asses the positive impacts of homeownership on families, communities and on the nation's economy.

Randy Neugebauer

#12. 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

#13. It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.

Wanda Sykes

#14. I've never used Sybase in my life. How would I make an intelligent decision about this versus that with a Sybase extension?

Rasmus Lerdorf

#15. But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.

Patrick McGoohan

#16. You see, with me, when I'm nervous, I smile and laugh.

Paula Radcliffe

#17. You do angry. I just saw it. And you left at least one hole in my carpet to prove it.

Deborah Harkness

#18. Jesus doesn't avoid those who mess up. Jesus runs to those who mess up.

Matt Chandler

#19. Logic is an excellent weapon when employed correctly.

Cherise Sinclair

#20. My point," Jason said, "is that blaming each other isn't going to solve anything. That's how the Romans and the Greeks got divided in the first place.

Rick Riordan

#21. What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.

Branford Marsalis

#22. I promised my daughter I'd name my first restaurant after her, but now the other kids are like, 'Dad, what about us?' I'm gonna have to open four restaurants!

Buddy Valastro

#23. That makes me think of the 2002 World Cup Final above all else. Nobody thought at the time that our team would get through to the Final against Brazil. We should remember that this summer.

Angela Merkel

#24. But he finally saw
how pain caused
one of two things:
A reverence for life.
Or killing.
Both grew from the same seed.

Cynthia Rylant