Famous quotes containing the words house and/or built:
“Hours before dawn we were woken by the quake.
My house was on a cliff. The thing could take
Bookloads off shelves, break bottles in a row.
Then the long pause and then the bigger shake.
It seemed the best thing to be up and go.”
—William Empson (1906–1984)
“There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.”
—Jean Rostand (1894–1977)