Top 1200 Old House Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I bought my mum a new house when the money started to come in; it's that old cliche.

We’re every age at once and tucked inside ourselves like Russian nesting dolls. My mother is an 8 year old girl. My grandson is a 74 year old retiree whose kidneys just failed. And that’s the glue between me and you. That’s the screws and nails. We live in a house made of each other and if that sounds strange that’s because it is.

I was always singing around the house, even when I was two years old.

We do Greco-Roman, freestyle. The Old Country way. No gimmick wrestling in my house.

If you sweep a house, and tend its fires and fill its stove, and there is love in you all the years you are doing this, then you and that house are married, that house is yours.

I bought my first house at 19-years old.

The most profound memory I have from my childhood is burning down my house at 6 years old.

Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and serpent-like a manner. At last it strikes you that they grew up, house by house, on the devious tracks of the old green lanes; and if you follow on to the existing fields, you may often find the change half complete.

People still assume the White House Correspondents' Association works for the White House, when in reality, it's a group of journalists who cover the White House. It's a branding thing, but because it has the 'White House' before it, people think they're just King Joffrey's goons.

I have an office in my house and one about five minutes from my house. I worked solely out of my house for many years, but find, with children, that I have to be in a different ZIP code to think.

In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it's online, all those early buyers who... you want to play with, they've got their reputation online of who they are and how good they are at these games.

A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it.

Tearing down an old house and building a new one is the most wasteful thing we do as humans.

Despite the fact that she was essentially comatose, she somehow made his whole house feel different just by being there. Before it had been just a house—a very impressive house no doubt, but a house nonetheless. But for some reason, with Taylor there it felt more like a home.

We must remember that in the House, Congressman [Carlos] Curbelo has a - the same law, and it has a lot of support in the House. It's possible that it will happen first in the House and then go to the Senate.

I suppose I passed it a hundred times, But I always stop for a minute. And look at the house, the tragic house, The house with nobody in it.

In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.

The house made of ice in the middle of a desert! And that house is the house of lies!

We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign.

The moment you let your courage leave you, you turn to an abandoned old house!

I live in an old house with no closets and no built-ins. I hate big cupboards.

I have been obsessed with 'Full House' since I was five years old. I just can't stop watching the reruns!

We were little children, four or five years old, but they were all around the house and they made us look epic, like we were part of some story being told. My mom would have this woman come to our house and take photos of us. She did a photo book of us as well when I was one. I still have it.

I'm short-selling my house. I have more loans than I can sell the house for. The house will not go into foreclosure. It will be a short sale. I can't afford the house as I once could.

I found a nanny/child care position in Beverly Hills taking care of a 3-year-old and a 17-year-old. They had a large, wealthy house. I learned that I liked the way rich people lived. I learned that they were not smarter than me.

At 26 years old, I own a house in Florida.

[Andrew Jackson] was actually 70 years old when he left the White House

I'm in the countryside outside of Paris, in a beautiful old manor house. The studio is in the basement, but we decided to set everything up in the old parlor and dining-room area so we can look at each other and (at) the sunshine coming through the stained-glass windows. It's pretty idyllic, and I think it's spoiling me. I'll have to go back to regular life after this.

I grew up in the countryside with the factory here, my house 200 metres away, my grandma's house 50 metres away, in a kind of old-style Italian society where everyone works for the family business, everyone lives nearby, and the people you spend your time with are your family.

Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs.

I was the only kids to have Sony Umatic tapes of the old 'Star Wars.' It was such an old technology; you needed two or three tapes to show one movie, so the kids used to come over to my house, and we would watch 'Star Wars.'

I've got funny things. David Duchovny had to have a cast made of his face to do an old person's make-up, and I've got that cast of his face in my house. I've got something from the pilot, the original implant that was in Billy Miles' head. I've got a sign from 'The Erlenmeyer Flask.' But my house isn't a museum to 'The X-Files!'

The Old Vic is a beautiful theater to work in. It's quite a large house, but it has a feeling of intimacy.

I ran away from my house when I was about 12 years old to audition for a film.

I'm trying to figure out how to record at home because I have a tiny house and a seven-year-old and my wife also works at home. So I can't work in the house because she's trying to write, so I pitched a tent in the backyard. I'm literally trying to record in the tent.

I send thank you notes, not emails, even if I'm staying at a friend's house or something. I'm very old school.

There's an old saying in the days of slavery, there are those slaves who lived on the plantation, and there were those slaves who lived in the house. You got the privilege of living in the house if you served the master to exactly the way the master intended to have you serve him. That gave you privilege. Colin Powell is permitted to come into the house of the master, as long as he will serve the master according to the master's dictates. Now, when Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture.

I'm kind of old-fashioned because I was born and live in the same house for six generations.

In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real.

In order to be successful, you have to honor what's in old fashion house, but you also have to play with it and push the limits of it.

We don't have to remain in this radically destructive mind-set and institutional-set. We can change, and the natural order of things could emerge in all of our societal organizations-government, commerce, religion-it's right there, waiting to happen. I often tell people that every mind is like a room in an old house, stuffed with very old furniture. Take any space in your mind and empty it of your old conceptions and new ones will rush in, good or bad. So change is more a getting rid of rather than an adding to or an acquiring.

When a family buys a house, they know when it's the right one - the fixer upper where they can spend all their time and grow old together.

From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile.

I picked up the guitar at 12 yrs old - basically, my mother and father bought it for me for Christmas. I played one at my friend's house; when I say played it, I just played around with it at my friend's house. It just struck me as something I really wanted.

And now my old dog is dead, and another I had after him, and my parents are dead, and that first world, that old house, is sold and lost, and the books I gathered there lost, or sold- but more books bought, and in another place, board by board and stone by stone, like a house, a true life built, and all because I was steadfast about one or two things: loving foxes, and poems, the blank piece of paper, and my own energy- and mostly the shimmering shoulders of the world that shrug carelessly over the fate of any individual that they may, the better, keep the Niles and Amazons flowing.

A pear tree is blooming, by a collapsed house, on an old battlefield.

I wrote 'Buried Child' in a trailer at an old ranch house we had in California.

We're one people, and we all live in the same house. Not the American house, but the world house.

Even the duster in my house has to be beautiful; no old piece of cloth will ever be used in its place.

The Cleveland Cavaliers just offered me a full-time job and a house! A house! A house!

When I was 10 years old my mom used to play Tupac while she cleaned the house.

For as the old saying is, When house and land are gone and spent Then learning is most excellent.

Alex O'Loughlin is an old friend. Actually, when he first came to L.A., he stayed at my house.

As far as my house, I have a ton of video games and three or four old consoles.

My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

A house with old furniture has no need of ghosts to be haunted.

Originality in literature is only a new coat of paint on an old house.

The most used appliance in our house is my 10-year-old son Leon's Xbox.

We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do.

I have a very, very great balance sheet, so great that when I did the Old Post Office on Pennsylvania Avenue, the United States government, because of my balance sheet, which they actually know very well, chose me to do the Old Post Office, between the White House and Congress, chose me to do the Old Post Office.