House
Quotes - The reason to have a home is to keep certain people in and everyone
else out
“Through
countless births in the cycle of existence
I
have run, not finding
although
seeking the builder of this house;
and
again and again I faced the suffering of new birth.
Oh
housebuilder! Now you are seen.
You
shall not build a house again for me.
All
your beams are broken,
the
ridgepole is shattered.
The
mind has become freed from conditioning:
the
end of craving has been reached.”
―
Siddhārtha Gautama
“The
reason to have a home is to keep certain people in and everyone else out. A
home has a perimeter. But sometimes our perimeter was breached by neighbors, by
Girl Scouts, by Jehovah’s Witnesses. I never liked to hear the doorbell ring.
None of the people I liked ever turned up that way.”
―
Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation
“I
open my eyes.
I
want to know:
what
is in the abyss of a kiss?
Are
stars born in these black caves
that
house bated breaths and unspoken words?
Do
our souls crawl on these tender cheeks
to
greet one another by ivory gates?
What
happens when we kiss?
Where
do you go?
Don’t
tell me.
For
I have lost my desire to know.
Kiss
me
so
that I forget myself.
I
close my eyes
and
fall in the abyss.”
―
Kamand Kojouri
“It
was at that moment he realized that his spirit was truly human once more. For
he no longer remembered how to be alone without being lonely.”
―
Neal Shusterman, Everwild
“A
House of My Own
Not
a flat. Not an apartment in back. Not a man's house. Not a daddy's. A house all
my own. With my porch and my pillow, my pretty purple petunias. My books and my
stories. My two shoes waiting beside the bed. Nobody to shake a stick at.
Nobody's garbage to pick up after.
Only
a house quiet as snow, a space for myself to go, clean as paper before the
poem.”
―
Cisneros, Sandra
“You're
my life, Elle. When we have our children, they'll be included in that circle
and I'm not a man to lose everything. I want you as safe as possible."
"So
you don't think three protection dogs, a room filled with weapons, a panic room
and house that eats people isn't just a little overkill?”
―
Christine Feehan, Hidden Currents
“It
is easier for a man to burn down his own house than to get rid of his
prejudices.”
―
Roger Bacon
“Whenever
you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they
are all someone's home and backyard.”
―
Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“The
fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their
cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that they
could not bear to think they had finished it.”
―
J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
“Hill
House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.”
―
Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
“Of
course, thanks to the house, a great many of our memories are housed, and if
the house is a bit elaborate, if it has a cellar and a garret, nooks and
corridors, our memories have refuges that are all the more clearly delineated.
All our lives we come back to them in our daydreams. A psychoanalyst should,
therefore, turn his attention to this simple localization of our memories. I
should like to give the name of topoanalysis to this auxiliary of
pyschoanalysis. Topoanalysis, then would be the systematic psychological study
of the sites of our intimate lives.”
―
Gaston Bachelard
“My
old man's a white old man
And
my old mother's black.
If
ever I cursed my white old man
I
take my curses back.
If
ever I cursed my black old mother
And
wished she were in hell,
I'm
sorry for that evil wish
And
now i wish her well
My
old man died in a fine big house
My
Ma died in a shack.
I
wonder were i'm going to die,
Being
neither white nor black?”
―
Langston Hughes
“It
stood calm against the suburban storm raging around it. The thunder screamed
across the sky; it slapped the clouds into a heated turmoil that flew towards
the south.”
―
J.D. Stroube, Caged in Darkness
“Everyone
needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.”
―
Anthony Liccione
“There
is some of the same fitness in a man's building his own house that there is in
a bird's building its own nest. Who knows but if men constructed their
dwellings with their own hands, and provided food for themselves and families
simply and honestly enough, the poetic faculty would be universally developed,
as birds universally sing when they are so engaged? But alas! we do like
cowbirds and cuckoos, which lay their eggs in nests which other birds have
built, and cheer no traveller with their chattering and unmusical notes. Shall
we forever resign the pleasure of construction to the carpenter?”
―
Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
“It
didn't matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.”
―
Peter Buffett, Life Is What You Make It: Find Your Own Path to Fulfillment
“That
porch is a happy-looking place, and my father - burdened, stoop-shouldered,
cadaverously thin - doesn't seem to belong on it.”
―
Margaret Peterson Haddix, Double Identity
“Your
house shall be not an anchor but a mast
It
shall not be a glistening film that covers a wound, but an eyelid that guards
the eye.”
―
Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
“The
house had a name. The Banana House. It was carved onto a piece of sandstone
above the front door. It made no sense to anyone.”
―
Hilary McKay, Saffy's Angel
“In
your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.”
―
Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
“Listen.
Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or
windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, too large. Close
the doors. Close the windows. As soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke
or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes,
then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can’t heat up as
well. Cold draft comes in.”
―
Aimee Bender, Willful Creatures
“But
you know, as I do, that the storm will pass
And
that the implacable sun doesn't simply stop
When
obscured by a dark, pernicious cloud,
Which
is why I know I'll return to your house-
On a
Sunday that's there on the calendar-
And
laugh with you over a glass of grappa.”
―
Mauricio Rosencof
