Terraces Quotes

This site screamed out for a house . It's such a marvelous location ... from the topography of the site, to the shape of the site, everything said to me: This is where I should try and build a house. We have the river; we have the marvelous rice terraces which we can see from our decks. - Martin Smyth

The color of the Great Canon itself is red, a light Indian Red, and the material sandstone and red marble and is in terraces all the way down. - Thomas Moran

Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive; you will be able to design a house together with your family; a garden for your children; places where you can work; beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream. - Christopher Alexander

Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights. - Stephen Gardiner

In India, people fly kites from their roof tops and terraces. Sometimes, the sky seemed filled with kites. - Harry Parmar

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong. - John Major

I can understand the frustration. It's not just out there on the terraces, it's in the dressing room too. We will stick together, we have done it in the past and we will do it again. Two weeks ago you beat Arsenal and you're a hero. One week ago you're the best manager in the league. The next you're the worst. - Steve McClaren