We were so fundamental that almost everything had been stripped away from the place of worship. Think of the role words can play, when all other enticements and sensual attractions are gone.


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SAM HOUSTON
One of the great things about moving to Silicon Valley is that you're surrounded by all these pe...
DREW HOUSTON
You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At ni...
WHITNEY HOUSTON
Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all th...
WHITNEY HOUSTON
When I heard Aretha, I could feel her emotional delivery so clearly. It came from down deep within. ...
WHITNEY HOUSTON
I'm not crazy about arenas just because I can sell them out. It doesn't do anything for my e...
WHITNEY HOUSTON
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essen...
SAM HOUSTON
Texas, to be respected, must be polite. Santa Anna, living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas;...
SAM HOUSTON
... what kind of life do we live if we let fear break us down? The truth is there will be tough time...
CHRISTENE HOUSTON
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
JEAN HOUSTON
We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
JEAN HOUSTON
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
DIANNE HOUSTON
The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land.
LIBBY HOUSTON
Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.
GEORGE HOUSTON
There are 30,000 days in your life. When I was 24, I realized I'm almost 9,000 days down. There ...
DREW HOUSTON
I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a ...
WHITNEY HOUSTON
Whether his policy was right or wrong, he built up the glory of the nation.
SAM HOUSTON
It is a matter of great satisfaction to me to hope that my children will be in circumstances to rece...
SAM HOUSTON
A manufacture of bologna sausage accused a man whom he had discharged of spreading a report that the...
SAM HOUSTON
To secede from the Union and set up another government would cause war. If you go to war with the Un...
SAM HOUSTON
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essen...
SAM HOUSTON
I would lay down my life to defend any one of the States from aggression, which endangered peace or ...
SAM HOUSTON
Texas will again lift it's head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon ...
SAM HOUSTON
If we are to merge our national existence in that of the United States É then it seems to me that w...
SAM HOUSTON
They almost had to take his leg off. That infection took a while to heel.
SAM HOUSTON
Every day is a new experience for us right now, but at least we've got a place to stay. You've just ...
SAM HOUSTON
The office market will continue to improve rapidly due to the continued strong employment in Austin....
SAM HOUSTON
This feeling has been impressed my heart by the instruction and example of the great man [Andrew Jac...
SAM HOUSTON
It was this moment that the victim was tied and bound. He could live in that moment for years.
SAM HOUSTON
They allow you to hopefully enrich your program a little bit,
SAM HOUSTON
He's just a sophomore, and that's a tough situation with the game on the line and all that. But I wa...
SAM HOUSTON
We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. I...
SAM HOUSTON
I beseech those whose piety will permit them reverently to petition, that they will pray for this un...
SAM HOUSTON
Texas, to be respected must be polite. Santa Anna living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; S...
SAM HOUSTON
I preferred measuring deer tracks, to tape-that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then ...
SAM HOUSTON
He's got himself an extremely tainted asset - this is by no means over,
OLIVER HOUSTON
I?m not sure on Baker.
HOUSTON NUTT
I'm just fiercely protective. It's like, that's my lair and nobody messes with my lair.
WHITNEY HOUSTON
Growing businesses are always looking for an advantage to help propel them above the crowded field o...
DANIEL HOUSTON
This is Connecticut basketball. After suffering the embarrassment of the North Carolina game, it cam...
CHARDE HOUSTON
In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too lon...
WHITNEY HOUSTON
I guess, ... that sums it all up.
ALLAN HOUSTON