Building Houses

Famous quotes containing the words building and/or houses:

“An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a fancy for building my hut on one. Even a bare, grassy isle, which I can see entirely over at a glance, has some undefined and mysterious charm for me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)