Sentences with phrase «of quiet house»

Other subjects include: a discussion at the college led by visiting author Alfred Kazin; a discussion led by W. A. Robinson, director of the Secondary School Study of the Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools for Negroes, on education for African Americans; faculty appointments; the future of world culture as outlined by Herbert Miller; children in the college community; the role of the college in the surrounding community; radio programs via WWNC; the building of the Quiet House; upcoming plays, concerts, and other events at the college; general campus news and news from alumni of the college.

Reference images of the Quiet House at Black Mountain College near Asheville, North Carolina.

In an early scene, she asks her father (Keith Carradine) for permission to write every night from 3 a.m. until dawn, so she can take advantage of the quiet house.

In praise of a quiet house with tinies playing outside and a baby taking her naps as God and her mother intended, of street hockey and texts from friends, of refusing to do a single thing that could be construed as productive.

The Land is a playground that takes up nearly an acre at the far end of a quiet housing development in North Wales.

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Buried amidst all the latest unprecedented news from the White House yesterday, from the Twitter firing of the Secretary of State to the blocking of the largest proposed tech deal ever, was the quiet release of the annual Harris Poll Reputation Quotient ranking.

The Mannix brothers share many things with their father (Fred Charles Mannix) and grandfather (Fred Stephen Mannix), whose empires they inherited: their names, obviously, but also their sharp business acumen, quiet - but - aggressive approaches to philanthropy (Calgary's brand new National Music Centre — which houses Canada's Music Hall of Fame — came to being thanks to more than $ 10 million in donations from the Mannix family business; the company also contributed $ 1 million to the National Gallery of Canada in 2015) and steadfast commitment to privacy.

For years, home - sharing giant Airbnb has had a quiet side project involving asking its hosts to offer temporary housing — for free — to displaced people, citizens forced out of their homes due to natural disasters and other emergencies or, increasingly, the global refugee crisis.

Every morning, I wake up to get some quiet time a while the rest of the house sleeps.

In a quiet acknowledgment of these facts, the governor of the Bank of Canada, Mark Carney, was appointed as the new chief of the Financial Stability Board, a group of top fiscal experts trying to keep the global house of cards from collapsing.

Created to compete with A Wedding Story and A Baby Story, HGTV has always had its roots in a quiet social conservatism, a world where houses are containers for families and where the center of a family is a marriage.

When the results came in, we did see a burst of interest and sales from those who were on «hold», however, this has now petered off and the super prime house market remains quiet.

Would you keep quiet if some unrelated person stands in front of your house and makes derogatory comments about the members of your family, your kids, etc (who are important to you)?

I recall quiet Saturday mornings, walking with my father block to block, as he pointed out the landmarks no one else knew: the spot where the Third Avenue El of old stopped (he pointed out the supports hidden beneath the black asphalt); the apartment house where another close - knit family lived in cramped quarters, the three boys studying in dim lights under their mother's watchful eye to become a lawyer, a doctor, and a priest (and later a bishop); and the double spires of St. Patrick's Cathedral, the place of my parents» wedding and the baptisms of their three boys.

In that house of quiet dying, through still sheers that turn the day to gray, only two chairs of six are sat upon, the bed no longer shared.

I mean, don't get me wrong — I love the line - items of the house like a quiet settled neighbourhood and how everyone gets their own room (Anne is especially chuffed about this) and the backyard and the big deck with a view of the mountains and especially the double - fridge - freezer - combo thing (that fridge is THING OF BEAUTY THOof the house like a quiet settled neighbourhood and how everyone gets their own room (Anne is especially chuffed about this) and the backyard and the big deck with a view of the mountains and especially the double - fridge - freezer - combo thing (that fridge is THING OF BEAUTY THOof the mountains and especially the double - fridge - freezer - combo thing (that fridge is THING OF BEAUTY THOOF BEAUTY THO).

And in another few years, the blink of an eye, I'll be sitting in a house, alone: the laundry will be done at last, the house will be clean — and it will stay clean, and the floors will be quiet, no one will be asking me for anything at all, my time will be my own, and I will feel the full weight of The Ache for which I've been holding vigil at last.

In praise of early mornings (oh, so early) because I wake up to a quiet house and I slowly work my way upstairs with Maggie in my arms.

The evolving list of his desires includes: money, a house, a wife, children, a boat, and finally a quiet place to sit and rest.

The destruction of the monastic houses was an attack on a kind of approach to Christianity which was contemplative, ordered and quiet.

For the first time in over a century, the pope is going to eschew convention and ditch his elaborate digs at the apostolic palace for the quiet of the Vatican's guest house.

I am writing this guest editorial on a red formica - topped table in the small kitchen of my mother's quiet, early morning house.

I have a keen sense that this quiet house that seems so empty is really full of power and life as never before, and that this is also true of the world at Easter, 1989.

It is also quite quiet compared to some of the other blenders I have tried so it is a good one for early risers who don't want to disturb the rest of the house!

Admittedly, it might have been a little over the top, but I had the energy and the ingredients, and the house was quiet so I made the most of the morning.

For as long as I can remember, my father has worked the night shift... and for most of my childhood, I also remember that once he came home at the end of his shift... while all the house was quiet... he became a FOOD THEIF!!

There is so much that has been going on in my world, with publishing a book, going on holiday to America (which was awesome) and then throw into the mix, moving house, that's why I have been a little quiet online of late.

After a short break in the quiet contemplative atmosphere of the spare tea house, tasting tea and a small sweet, I felt utterly refreshed and ready to return to our itinerary.

It was just me and the quiet of the house, a rarity in a household with two little kids.

And there's no better season than winter to have the smell of fresh baked bread in the house, to hear in a quiet clean kitchen the sound of a bread crust crackling as it cools.

My night - loving friends think I'm odd, but there's nothing better than an early morning cup of tea in a quiet house, watching the sun rise, and listening to the birds waking up.

But that's not the point, the point is that there were noisy people outside my house and all I wanted to do was open the window and tell them to quiet down because I can count on three fingers the number of times I've been home to witness the sound of hundreds of millions of water molecules hitting the roof over my head.

As for myself, depending on the time of day you're reading this I'm either having a yummy mid morning breakfast with another close blogger friend of mine; Sommer from A Spicy Perspective, I'm on the road heading back to Charlotte and enjoying a quiet drive with me, myself, and I, or I'm already in Charlotte dealing with my own personal «return to the real world» grindstone of laundry and a house that's been inhabited by my husband and three wild animals boys alone in the house all weekend.

After less than a season of Class A ball at Modesto, Calif., Reggie went on to Double A Birmingham at a time when black players were housed separately from white players, an injustice that Reggie took with quiet equanimity.

During Splash's youth, Wauwatosa had been a small bedroom suburb on the western outskirts of Milwaukee, a quiet, tidy enclave whose middle - class affluence was as sturdy as its stone houses, as neatly clipped as its putting - green lawns, a town where men often took the streetcar to work, or else walked whistling under the elms.

Once the kids are happily settled in their college dorms, many of those married couples will head home to a house that feels unusually big and quiet, maybe even lonely.

This is the first post I've read of your blog I read it last night, I got a chuckle, I have dogs, but the people who read this blog and have left comments are terrible, I run a daycare in my home, 4 months 9 months 18 months 2,3,7,7, and today at nap time when everything goes nuts, my dog follows me around as I take the littles to cribs she goes and snuggles the olders for quiet time I couldn't appreciate her more, her needs are a bowl filled a blanket lifted so she can snuggle under with you and a door opened occasionally she is te easiest in this house can't imagine life with out her < 3 btw the last comment is the best LOL!

It is the middle of the night, your wife is holding a screaming baby as she walks around the house, shushing; trying to keep him quiet.

Allow the girls to talk all night if they want, but set your quiet hour so the rest of the house can get some rest.

I am happy that my kids love school, and I am happy to get a few hours of quiet in the house each day.

I put on a fan for my son the white noise helps him fall asleep faster and if mommy and daddy want to stay up they don't need to worry about keeping the rest of the house super quiet, because the sound of the fan usually will drown out the noise going on in the rest of the house.

I believe in long quiet days at home as far as possible but I do acknowledge that we have a certain amount of things that we need to do each week to ensure we have food in the house, exercise and maybe a get together with moms and their toddlers for a bit of socialization.

It reminds me of a poem that my mom had hanging in our house and I've always been so fond of it - Cleaning and scrubbing can wait til tomorrow for babies grow up, we've learned to our sorrow So quiet down cobwebs, dust go to sleep I'm rocking my baby And babies don't keep.

So have aspects of the Terrible Twos, fighting the uphill battle of keeping a newborn from getting sick when your eldest has spiked a scary fever, cats seeming to punch into their night shifts for mayhem the second the whole house goes quiet at bedtime, and the proven fact that things will sometimes be simply out of our control in this household for awhile.

And it's here that I find at least one little one much of the time - in a spot that couldn't be more central to the house, and yet, has a bit of quiet and peace just right for the daydreaming that such play is usually full of.

The quiet of the house and a cup of coffee, provide a great start to the day!

This is actually why I do afternoon kindergarten for my older kids because then it can be a time for them to get out of the house while the rest of us have quiet time!

Consider having one party at your home and having a familiar sitter on hand to take baby to a quiet corner of the house to get away from it all when needed.

Nursing Cami's are great for when you're ready to get out of the house and you have nothing to wear because your pre-baby clothing doesn't exactly fit you quiet the same yet.

I agree I live in a upper and right below me are the loudest 2 moms and 1 year old in the world letting there kid run into walls smashing things at as early as 5 - 00 am on top of this both moms slam the door like they are the only ones who live here the whole house shakes with wakes me up and having insomnia it drives me nuts this is due to shitty parenting skills from the start I am very quiet and live alone we get along most of the time I just do nt see how people think they can be so fucking inconsiderate to others well trash is trash