Famous quotes containing the words house, dust and/or mites:
“It is written, “My house shall be called a house of prayer”; but you are making it a den of robbers.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 21:13.
Jesus.
“Lo, thus, as prostrate, ‘In the dust I write
My heart’s deep languor and my soul’s sad tears.’
Yet why evoke the spectres of black night
To blot the sunshine of exultant years?”
—James Thomson (1834–1882)
“Dead men may envy living mites in cheese,
Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys,
And subdivide, and never come to death.”
—Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)