Household Quotes - Page 25

• You have a great many things to do when you are under house arrest. On the one hand, it is more comfortable than sitting in prison; on the other hand, you have to look after a household, which is strenuous under such circumstances.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Hands, House, Looks

  "'We Have to Tackle This -- With Peaceful Means'". Interview with Thilo Thielke, www.spiegel.de. November 22, 2010.

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• Our society is monstrously disjunctive, at once so efficient in war and so inefficient in caring for the welfare of its members. It is frightening to see people rooting in garbage pails on streets, living in cardboard crates under bridges, while their government wages war. Even when there is an emergency in a household, decent parents do not forget to feed the children.

  Anne Truitt

  Children, War, Caring

  Anne Truitt (1996). “PROSPECT: The Journal of an Artist”, Scribner

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• The foundations of our Empire are now based more firmly than ever! The birth of a Crown Prince shows that the prosperity of the Imperial Household is increasing many times.

  Sadao Araki

  Foundation, Crowns, Empires

  "Sun's Son's Son". "TIME" Magazine, January 1, 1934.

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• Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be prudential, in order to be permanent, by providing that the reservoir which feeds should also be fed.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Self, Order, Should

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household emergencies and its action varies accordingly as it is taken in a wineglass or a tablespoon, inhaled, gargled or rubbed on the chest by hard fingers covered with rings.

  Robert Graves

  Taken, Mixtures, Emergencies

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• What is gayer than believing in a household god?

  Franz Kafka

  God, Believe, Belief

  Franz Kafka (1954). “Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod”

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• A household where a total unawareness of the world of ideas not only existed but was regarded as a matter for congratulation.

  Osbert Lancaster

  Congratulations, Ideas, World

  Osbert Lancaster (1963). “All done from memory”, John Murray

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• I was surprised to learn that doing household chores qualifies as romantic for most of you [women]. That's exactly why you should never hire a butler if you strike it rich - the minute that Jeeves starts unloading the dishwasher without being asked, your wife is going to start humping his leg.

  Scott Adams

  Wife, Legs, Jeeves

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• In the forties [1940s] in Washington it was still unusual for a rich and socially well-connected married woman to work. If she did, her husband was assumed by his peers to be unable to support a household on his own and somehow to be inadequate.

  David Brinkley

  Husband, Men, Support

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• Marriage, from love, like vinegar from wine-- A sad, sour sober beverage--by time Is sharpened from its high celestial flavor Down to a very homely household savor.

  Lord Byron

  Wine, Flavor, Vinegar

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 3, st. 5

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• If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

  Francis Bacon

  Church, Guarantees, Literature

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• If you look at a farmer and his daily expenditure on existing energy services, it is much higher on an incremental delta basis. And then there is an emotional cost of not providing their kids with the right to educate. If you calculate these costs in economic terms and create a financing mechanism for them to buy it, the emotional delta cost is much higher compared to their household.

  Ramon Magsaysay

  Kids, Emotional, Energy

  Source: themanipaljournal.com

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• At every point I wished that I was born English. They need to make it colder in here. You could hang meat in this room. But, yeah...I grew up in a very English household. My folks were from Liverpool. I've said this before, but there is nothing more English than an Englishman that no longer lives in England.

  Mike Myers

  Rooms, England, Meat

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• My grandmother was also an active member of the tenants association and a staunch supporter of the Democratic Party, and both of my parents were extremely liberal, so I think I grew up in a household that was very politically conscious - we all watched the elections on TV, and we watched the debates. So it was an awareness that we were raised with, and as we grew into young adults, we just naturally became politically active. It was just understood that it was important, that it was our responsibility.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Party, Responsibility, Grandmother

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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• It seems to me that the most delightful walk of life is to be found in a household of moderate means, to live there with an obliging spouse and to be satisfied with little.

  Martin Luther

  Mean, Littles, Life Is

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• I was raised in a household where I read Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky and Kant, and I was never taught that my mind was feminine. I'm aware that my body is.

  Jewel

  Mind, Body, Taught

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• I didn't grow up in a naked household, but nudity was not a taboo thing. My mother was an artist and there were naked sculptures and paintings all over the place.

  Ingrid Michaelson

  Mother, Growing Up, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Real estate is still a great investment opportunity for households. Price appreciation will continue. It may not be at 20%. It may ... even go down to 5%.

  David Lereah

  Appreciation, Real, Opportunity

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• There are many things clogging the television waves. You've got to fight for every bit of television households you can get.

  Kevin Sorbo

  Fighting, Television, Wave

  "From “Hercules” to “Christmas Angel”: Kevin Sorbo talks about his personal journey and his role in GMC TV’s new yuletide film about the value of human kindness". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• If you were to hire household staff to cook, clean, drive, stoke the fire, and answer the door, can you imagine suggesting that they not talk to each other, not see what each other is doing, not coordinate their functions?

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Fire, Doors, Answers

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• The household I grew up in... was rather like an Ovaltine advert. There was a huge fire, a kettle on the fire, the oven with the bread being baked every day, and there was the radio; it was very magical to hear all these wonderful programmes.

  Brian Blessed

  Fire, Bread, Radio

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• Houseless: Having paid all taxes on household goods.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Taxes, Goods, Paid

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.113, University of Georgia Press

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• I am married to a girl from Hamburg, so no one need tell me about the dangers of living in a German dominated household.

  Nigel Farage

  Girl, Needs, Married

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• I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up with a great collection of good morals and good values, but we also had fun. We'd go to church on Sunday, but then have ice cream, roller skate or play in the park afterwards.

  Yolanda Adams

  Christian, Growing Up, Fun

  "Yolanda Adams 'How Sweet The Sound'". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. October 23, 2012.

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• Once you taste the second income in the household and it changes your lifestyle, you get used to it.

  Reema Bint Bandar Al Saud

  Income, Taste, Changing Your Life

  "For Women In Saudi Arabia, Gender Segregation More Like A 'Glass Wall'". "Here and Now" with Meghna Chakrabarti with Linda Wertheimer, wbaa.org. December 13, 2015.

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