A Quote by Edgar Guest

It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home

Edgar Guest

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Heap Home House Make Takes

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Edgar Guest
American - Poet
August 20, 1881 - August 5, 1959

All of us need to be constantly reminded it takes a heap of living and loving to make a house a home.

Marvin J. Ashton

It takes a heap o' children to make a home that's true,And home can be a palace grand, or just a plain, old shoe;But if it has a mother dear, and a good old dad or two,Why, that's the sort of good old home for good old me and you.

Louis Untermeyer

It takes a Mother’s Love to make a house a home, a place to be remembered, no matter where we roam.

Helen Steiner Rice

So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love-- But for livin' I was born.

Langston Hughes

The house, it's already been a-settin' here for a hundred years. It'll be right here tomorrow. It's today I must be livin'.

Catherine Marshall

Promising to bring home a feed of fish is the absolute kiss of death to any chances of catching anything but a large heap of derision when you get home.

Tony Bishop

A heap of bricks is not yet a house.

I. L. Peretz

We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house.

Robert Breault

Addiction is a crazy disease. It's a progressive disease when it's not dealt with; it don't care who it takes, and it takes it all. You wind up losing your house, your home, your reputation.

Marty Stuart

I had a very happy childhood. But I was sent off to boarding school at quite a young age, this massive Victorian house that was suffocated in ivy. I think there is a part of that school in 'Heap House.'

Edward Carey

It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

Gertrude Stein

It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

Mark Twain

Kneel down to pray. Step up to serve. Reach out to rescue. Each is a vital page of God's blueprint to make a house a home and a home a heaven.

Thomas S. Monson

A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house

Socrates

I've always been an independent wrestler at heart. You say I haven't had a 'home' but a company is not a home, a house is a home, a family is a home and I have that.