| "If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you." »Margaret Hilda Thatcher |
| "If this universe is the house of God, then I must say it is quite a dark house despite several hundred billion suns!" »Mehmet Murat ildan |
| "We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada." »Pierre Elliott Trudeau |
| "He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on rock because the wind and rain ruined his house on the sand." »Constance Naden |
| "A house without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat, may be a perfect house, perhaps, but how can it prove its title --from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson" »Mark Twain |
| "If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand." »Mark |
| "It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals." »Charles Kuralt |
| "Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "I have no country to fight for my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world." »Eugene V. Debs |
| "The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something." »Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| "Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan." »Eliel Saarinen |
| "There is no reason for anyone in the country, for anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use, a handgun. The only way to control handguns use in this country is to prohibit the guns. And the only way to do that is to change the Constitution." »Michael Gartner |
| "Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country." »Sinclair Lewis |
| "There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone--many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long. Not for nothing is their motto TGIF -- 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do." »Richard Nelson Bolles |
| "Divorce is a fire exit. When a house is burning, it doesnt matter who set the fire. If there is no fire exit, everyone in the house will be burned!" »Mehmet Murat ildan |
| "And so, my fellow americans ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." »John F. Kennedy |
| "Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. ... We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time." »Charles De Gaulle |
| "And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country." »E. M. Forster |
| "It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens." »Baha'u'llah |
| "Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense at all events just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| "Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them." »Pierre Elliott Trudeau |
| "There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel." »Franklin P. Adams |
| "From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles." »Charles Sumner |
| "If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, There will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, There will be peace in the world." »Chinese Proverb |
| "Home is where the house is." »Child Age 6 |
| "If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it." »Danish proverb |
| "Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house." »Jewish Proverb |
| "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." »George |
| "A good laugh is sunshine in a house." »William Makepeace Thackeray |
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