Household Quotes

• To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.

  Jill Scott

  Queens, Powerful, Home

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• The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Laughing, Together

  C. S. Lewis (1998). “C. S. Lewis on Joy”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated

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• Many make the household but only one the home.

  James Russell Lowell

  Home

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.397

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• Every kind of work can be a pleasure. Even simple household tasks can be an opportunity to exercise and expand our caring, our effectiveness, our responsiveness. As we respond with caring and vision to all work, we develop our capacity to respond fully to all of life. Every action generates positive energy which can be shared with others. These qualities of caring and responsiveness are the greatest gift we can offer.

  Tarthang Tulku

  Life, Exercise, Caring

  Tarthang Tulku (1978). “Skillful means”, Dharma Publishing

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• My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.

  Erma Bombeck

  Family, Mom, Mother

  Erma Bombeck (2011). “I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression”, p.96, Fawcett

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• Command that in no way there be in your household any who make strife, discord or divisions in the hostel, but all shall be of one accord, of one will as of one heart and one soul.

  Robert Grosseteste

  Heart, Soul, Division

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• The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Memorable, Heart, History

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• Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

  Erica Jong

  Artist, Earth, Housewife

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• The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

  Crystal Eastman

  Ignorance, Men, Average

  Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Christmas, Father, Believe

  "Christmas Carol". Interview with Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2005.

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• For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

  LeBron James

  Mom, Mother, Taken

  Interview With Larry King, www.cnn.com. June 2, 2010.

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• I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Country, Parent, Custodians

  "In the name of the father". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2003.

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• I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Sports, Football, Names

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• We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

  Plutarch

  Life, Nature, Shoes

  "Life of Cato the Censor" by Plutarch, 1st century.

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• For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Children, Achievement, Form

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Bully!”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• Children really brighten up a household. They never turn the lights off.

  Ralph Wycherley

  Funny, Children, Light

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• When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Book, Mean, Management

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• I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.

  Roseanne Barr

  Mom, Mother, Clever

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• But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.

  Joshua

  Land, Lord, Family Bible

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• I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait.

  Chris Hemsworth

  House, Personality, Lazy

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• My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.

  Bette Midler

  Ideas, Cleaning, Superwoman

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• For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a state.

  Aristotle

  Real, Animal, Views

  Aristotle (1987). “A New Aristotle reader”

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• Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest and profitable.

  Robert Grosseteste

  House, Faithful, Watches

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• Women are leaders everywhere you look - from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Running, Country, Strong Women

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• The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  School, Power, Doors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2738, Delphi Classics

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