House Built

Famous quotes containing the words house and/or built:

“If you feed a man, and wash his clothes, and borne his children, you and that man are married, that man is yours. If you sweep a house, and tend its fires and fill its stoves, and there is love in you all the years you are doing this, then you and that house are married, that house is yours.”
—Truman Capote (20th century)

“They built by rivers and at night the water
Running past windows comforted their sorrow;”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)