Cottages Quotes

Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.

You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it Himself

There are good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages.

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

I love to live alone in my own little cottage, where I can spend much time in prayer, etc

For serenity, always prefer the cottage to the palace!

I have found more inspiration in the cottages of fishermen than in the palaces of the rich.

A cottage will hold as much happiness as would stock a palace.

Let us prefer the lonely cottage, while blest with liberty, to gilded palaces, surrounded with the ensigns of slavery.

[On Denmark:] ... that little country of cottage cheese and courage.

Soon Hansel and Gretel came to a little cottage. When they got quite near, they saw that the little house was made of bread and roofed with cake. The windows were transparent sugar." "There must not have been a very strict building code.

The rain battered the cottage. Valkyrie risked a look up at Skulduggery. “What is it?” she whispered. “It’s a box,” he whispered back. “What kind of box?” “A wooden one.” She gave him a look.

Every antique farm-house and moss-grown cottage is a picture.

All the wars of the world, all the Caesars, have not the staying power of a lily in a cottage garden.

With equal pace, impartial Fate Knocks at the palace, as the cottage gate.

Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?

True love would look a second time. True love would not be thwarted. True love would not accept no for an answer. He would search the world and certainly look again and again in every cottage in Euphrasia until he finds you.

I would sooner live in a cottage and wonder at everything than live in a castle and wonder at nothing!

For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend's garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food!

To help my muscles rebuild after I work out, I have a small serving of cottage cheese.

Life is very nice in Hawaii. I rent a place that has its own cottage so when my friends and family come to visit, they have somewhere nice to stay.

I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.

He stood beside a cottage lone And listened to a lute, One summer's eve, when the breeze was gone, And the nightingale was mute.

With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry.

It is quite interesting that whilst there are tremendous theories, in the 1960s when IT was born, everybody was supposedly going to their cottage in the countryside to work in a virtual way.

For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage.

Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.

Overnight I became a cottage industry.

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.

I see myself as a private-equity investor that helps rebuild companies. Restructuring is a cottage industry in that there aren't that many serious practitioners.

For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small.

Khaddar does not displace a single cottage industry.

Mr Michener, as timeless as a stack of 'National Geographics,' is the ultimate Summer Writer. Just as one goes back to the cottage in Maine, so one goes back to one's Michener.

You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself. (Quoted by C.S.Lewis in Mere Christianity)

I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life... more particularly have I resented the sneers at Main Street. For I have known that in the cottages that lay behind the street rested the strength of our national character.

The wolf sniffed beneath the door to be sure this was a human cottage. The scent was undeniable. No pigs, except in bacon form. The wolf thought bacon form was a very sensible way for pigs to behave.

If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life.

The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish.

Phaedra of Alonso’s death was a never-ending pain that gnawed at his insides. It made him a prisoner in his own cottage.

An English village could never be mistaken for an American one: the outline against the sky differs; a thatched cottage makes a very wavy line on the blue above.

Come little cottage girl, you seem to want my cup of tea; and will you take a little cream? Now tell the truth to me!

You're buying for the benefit of the cottage experience at a fraction of the price.

I cannot get into cottage cheese, and I've tried a lot. Yogurt is hard for me to eat, too. I have to hold my nose to get it down. There's something wrong with that.

I'm king of the dead and I make my throne On a monument slab of marble cold; And my scepter of rule is the spade I hold: Come they from cottage or come they from hall, Mankind are my subjects, all, all, all! Let them loiter in pleasure or toilfully spin I gather them in, I gather them in!

Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my own.

Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God's care and pity for every separate need.

Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace.

I still see myself as a bit of a cottage industry. Being in a room creating stuff and seeing if anyone wants it, as opposed to going to work for someone.

Every farm with slaves was a slave-breeding farm. Raising slaves was mostly a cottage industry.