#houses

We all came from houses with doors, doors that were supposed to be closed when there were things going on that we weren't supposed to see, and when our pants were down. ↗

— Lynette Fromme

#closed #doors #down #going #houses

The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#apart #corridor #ever #found #hardly

Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#creation #freed #houses #idea #mean

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#buildings #cities #houses #like #lined

In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#houses #interior #into #japanese #melts

In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#crowded #difficult #establish #had #houses

In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#central #extraordinary #furniture #had #hearth

Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#certain #flats #floor #following #gained

The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#approach #chiefly #demonstrate #french #houses

Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we lost? Two hundred thousand. ↗

— Mary Landrieu

#do you know #five #houses #how #hundred