#house

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#even #expected #home #housework #intellectuals

They give me the money, I give them the book. Having input into the adaptation would be kind of like selling a house and coming back three years later and saying, 'Paint it this color!' ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#back #be kind #book #color #coming

House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year? ↗

— Bill Pascrell

#allow #clean #close #did #expect

Portugal is a high hill with a white watch tower on it flying signal flags. It is apparently inhabited by one man who lives in a long row of yellow houses with red roofs, and populated by sheep who do grand acts of balancing on the side of the hill. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#apparently #balancing #flags #flying #grand

No one comes into our house and pushes us around. ↗

— Dan Devine

#comes #house #into #our #pushes

The House of Commons is a great unwieldy body, which requires great Art and some Cordials to keep it loyal. ↗

— Henry Pelham

#body #commons #great #great art #house

I opposed No Child Left Behind, I opposed the Medicare prescription drug bill, I opposed the Wall Street bailout. What the American people are starting to see is that Republican, Republicans on Capitol Hill get it and the Democrats, from the White House to Capitol Hill, just don't get it. ↗

— Mike Pence

#american people #bailout #behind #bill #capitol

My parents live right down the street from the house I grew up in. ↗

— Miranda Lambert

#grew #house #i #live #parents

I've had tons of odd jobs, but I think that I would probably be a fireman because you get to see the results of your job. You get there and there is a house on fire. You leave and there's not a fire anymore. ↗

— Luke Perry

#because #fire #fireman #get #had

Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind. ↗

— Philo

#cities #countries #enjoyed #fill #free