House/construction

Famous quotes containing the words house and/or construction:

“Within the memory of many of my townsmen the road near which my house stands resounded with the laugh and gossip of inhabitants, and the woods which border it were notched and dotted here and there with their little gardens and dwellings, though it was then much more shut in by the forest than now.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)