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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective. -- Waylon Jennings
Mansions were forming like jewels in my bloodstream. -- Pat Conroy
The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live. -- Lewis Mumford
The soul passeth from form to form; and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold. -- Georg Hermes
If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words. -- E. M. Forster
Rich people who own mansions on the beach shouldn't get federal subsidies. If you want to stay there, take the risk. -- Geraldo Rivera
Canadian writers don't live in gated mansions; you can just talk to them when you see them lining up at the Second Cup. -- Russell Smith
This was the wonder of advertising; the complete absence of cynicism. It may have many mansions, but it has no room for Doubting Thomases. -- Clive Sinclair
I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
The entire federal budget for landslide research is $3.5 million a year - far less than the property value lost on a single day when 17 mansions slid down a hill in 2005 in Laguna Beach, Calif. -- Bill Dedman
There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace. -- Richard Pryor
Mr. Hussein began building Ghazalia in the early 1980s as a home for army officers and other members of his Baath Party. Concrete mansions with pillars and domes are common in the southern half of the district. -- Alex Berenson
The Democratic Party is a house of many mansions. It is a body which is extremely important in representing all kinds of people in all parts of the country who have very broad and very different views. -- John Dingell
I grew up in Kolkata in a traditional family. We had friends who lived in mansions just like the one in 'Oleander Girl.' Growing up, I was fascinated by the old house and the old Bengal lifestyle. -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
When they look back on me I want 'em to remember me not for all my wives, although I've had a few, and certainly not for any mansions or high livin' money I made and spent. I want 'em to remember me simply for my music. -- Jerry Lee Lewis
Think of what you are, you Christians. You are God's children; you are joint heirs with Christ. The 'many mansions' are for you; the palms and harps of the glorified are for you. You have a share in all that Christ has and is and shall be. -- Charles Spurgeon
One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life. -- Vanilla Ice
When I read 'Dream of Red Mansions,' I was really struck by the fact that it was built differently from a lot of genre works. Specifically, a lot of the events that should have taken centre-stage - wars, social upheavals - were seen entirely through the eyes of the women of a Chinese household. -- Aliette de Bodard
My grandmother worked at one of those Bel-Air mansions, and we would go - not too often, but every now and then - to pick her up. Hollywood was probably 12 miles from my house, but it might as well have been a million miles away. The only time I saw that world was on TV. Until I started making records. -- Ice Cube
I'm a Conservative, but I talk for the ordinary working classes. I get on with the boys at the pub, but I can also mix with Prince Andrew. I understand both levels. The toffs haven't lived in council estates; they've just known big mansions. How can they understand how the postman feels? I would never say no to becoming an MP. -- Vinnie Jones
I've had a lot of glamour come my way in the last 10 years - you know, movie stars and mansions and red carpets and trips to Europe and crazy stuff I never would have imagined - and I look at them as if I'm the bartender in the corner of the room. They've never gone into my psyche. I look at them with distance, and wonder. -- Andre Dubus
Time's ruins build eternity's mansions. -- James Joyce
The ruins of time build mansions in eternity. -- William Blake
Roses can grow in slums just as weeds can grow around mansions. -- Richard Paul Evans
With awe, around these silent walks I tread; These are the lasting mansions of the dead. -- George Crabbe
He (the Shaman) is a self-reliant explorer of the endless mansions of a magnificent hidden universe. -- Michael Harner
Can't you just imagine digging up the King, begging him to sing about those heavenly mansions Jesus mentioned. -- Warren Zevon
Could I get mansions covering ten thousand miles, I'd house all the poor scholars and make them beam with smiles -- Du Fu
The Son of God passed by the mansions and went down in a manger that He might sympathize with the lowly. -- Dwight L. Moody
Rich people who own mansions on the beach shouldn't get federal subsidies. If you want to stay there, take the risk -- Geraldo Rivera
I believe this earth on which we stand is but the vestibule to glorious mansions through which a moving crowd forever press. -- Joanna Baillie
When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes. -- Isaac Watts
Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted. -- Aeschylus
I've never understood why anybody makes a big deal about mansions. It's just a house with more rooms. You still have to face yourself. -- Dov Davidoff
In the temple of science are many mansions ... and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them there. -- Robert M. Pirsig
People think about, when you sell a million records, "Oh. You must be buying Ferrari's and living in mansions." It was never really like that. -- Kevin Martin
To thee, fair Freedom! I retire From flattery, cards, and dice, and din: Nor art thou found in mansions higher Than the low cot, or humble inn. -- William Shenstone
Once our idea of heaven meant all the dead relatives waiting on the kept lawn of the many mansions as if, suddenly sinless, they had nothing to do. ... -- Deborah Digges
I don't know how else to tell the story except to utilise that vocabulary: the rain, the darkness, the mansions, the framing, etc, the lighting and that sort of thing. -- Martin Scorsese
The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment! -- Henry David Thoreau
There's no indication that middle-income families feel resentful about the bigger mansions and yachts. But the near-rich, whose social circles intersect those of the rich, are subtly influenced by them. -- Bob Frank
Say this city has ten million souls, Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes: Yet there's no place for us, my dear, yet there's no place for us. -- W. H. Auden
Have your name put in the Lamb's Book of Life in Heaven so you'll be sure you've got your reservation confirmed for one of those mansions in God's golden Space City! -- David Berg
I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
Hope sees a crown in reserve, mansions in readiness, and Jesus Himself preparing a place for us, and by the rapturous sight she sustains the soul under the sorrows of the hour. -- Charles Spurgeon
But Tudor mansions on manicured grounds didn't look right with their grand front doors wide open to the night. It was like a debutante flashing her bra thanks to a wardrobe malfunction. -- J.R. Ward

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