John Laing Homes

Famous quotes containing the words john, laing and/or homes:

    “When John Henry was a little fellow,
    You could hold him in the palm of your hand,
    He said to his pa, “When I grow up
    I’m gonna be a steel-driving man.
    Gonna be a steel-driving man.””
    —Unknown. John Henry (l. 1–5)

    “Women receive
    the insults of men
    with tolerance,
    having been bitten
    in the nipple
    by their toothless gums.”
    —Dilys Laing (1906–1960)

    “Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.”
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)