Famous quotes containing the words customs and/or house:
“Change often makes accepted customs into crimes.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Hours before dawn we were woken by the quake.
My house was on a cliff. The thing could take
Bookloads off shelves, break bottles in a row.
Then the long pause and then the bigger shake.
It seemed the best thing to be up and go.”
—William Empson (1906–1984)