House
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I come from a blue collar family, but my personal life isn't. I didn't get the gene that my grandfather had in spades. He was a local hero. Built the church that I went to. Built the house I grew up in. Steamfitter, pipefitter, electrician, mechanic and plumber. I wanted to do those things. But it just didn't come easy.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever — wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.
If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
I never buy a house thinking that I'm going to sell it.
Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all — liberty!
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy.
