Habitation Quotes

A house is a machine for living in.

I spend roughly two out of every three nights at my house in Indiana.

He that has a house to put's head in has a good head-piece.

Whitney: Where is your home? Clayton: Wherever you are.

None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.

I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as shelter.

People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming.

You mean you live down here?' Matilda asked. 'I do', Miss Honey replied, but she said no more. Matilda had never once stopped to think about where Miss Honey might be living. She had always regarded her purely as a teacher, a person who turned up out of nowhere and taught at school and then went away again.

Ya gotta live somewhere, but also you GET to live somewhere.

And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth and hath determined the times before appointed, and the grounds of their habituation.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

Resettlement in new homes was the only possible and practicable solution

I'm just fascinated by houses. In another life, I'd have probably trained as an architect. If I had enough money, I'd collect them like other people collect teapots. I don't know why I love them so much. I'm just very interested in the idea of a house as a metaphor for the way one lives.

If nature offers no home, then we must make a home one way or another. The only question is how.

Under the one word "house" are included the schoolhouse, the almshouse, the jail, the tavern, the dwellinghouse; and the meanest shed or cave in which men live contains elements of all these. But nowhere on the earth stands the entire and perfect house.

Look for where the sky is brightest along the horizon. That reflects the nearest river. Strike out for a river and you will find habitation.