Quotes about House
"In the house of the wise are stores of choice food and oil, but a foolish man devours all he has."
- Proverbs 21:20
Our understandable wish to preserve the planet must somehow be reduced to the scale of our competence - that is to wish to preserve all of its humble house - holds and neighbourhoods.
- Wendell Berry
Oh! my ministering brethren! Much of our praying is but giving God advice! Our praying is discolored with ambition, either for ourselves or for our denomination. Perish the thought! Our goal must be God alone. It is His honor that is sullied, His blessed Son who is ignored, His laws broken, His name profaned, His Book forgotten, His house made a circus of social efforts.
- Leonard Ravenhill
The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.
- Mark Twain
I like having family and friends around me. Our house is always overflowing with guests.
- Shabana Azmi
I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this House and on all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise Men ever rule under this roof.
- John Adams
In the House, I was named one of the most bipartisan members of Congress, and that's a title I plan on continuing to hold in the Senate.
- Jacky Rosen
Nisi Dominus custodierit domum, in vanum vigilant qui custodiunt eam, Unless the Lord guard the house, in vain do they watch who guard it.
- Victor Hugo
and after all in this house what have we to fear? There is always someone with us who is stronger. The devil may visit us, but God lives here.
- Victor Hugo
Fallen angels could not enter sanctuaries of God. The moment they crossed the threshold, the house of worship would go up in flames, incinerating every mortal inside.
- Lauren Kate
Your house is made by its own needs. Those others are made by the need to impress. The determining motive of your house is in the house. The determining motive of the other is in the audience.
- Ayn Rand
From the moment he'd been elected Speaker in January, John Boehner had insisted that House Republicans had every intention of following through on their campaign pledge to end what he called my "job-crushing spending binge of the last two years.
- Barack Obama