Household Quotes - Page 28

• You are as much serving God in looking after your own children, & training them up in God’s fear, & minding the house, & making your household a church for God, as you would be if you had been called to lead an army to battle for the Lord of hosts.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Army, House

  Charles H. Spurgeon “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 23: Sermons 1331-1390”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• [My brother] was older, and since the law of the west was fairly entrenched in our household, whoever was bigger got control of the television. I sat mesmerized, and horrified, through hundreds of gunfights and became emotionally involved with everyone in Bonanza and Gunsmoke.

  Elizabeth Crook

  Brother, Law, West

  Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com

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• It was just how my parents treated me. It was the world they decided to show me. I was really sheltered. My grandmother kept me locked in the house when I was staying, you know, with the family in Soweto. And every household, for instance, had to have a registry of everyone who lived in that house.

  Trevor Noah

  Grandmother, House, Parent

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Families were living separately from the fathers. And so although, according to African culture, men were the head of the household, the truth is women were the ones who were raising everybody, including men. And growing up with my mother, that was something I really learned to appreciate.

  Trevor Noah

  Mother, Growing Up, Father

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 22, 2016.

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• I grew up in a classical music household. My dad is a phenomenal musician who can play any and all instruments, can sight read, can play by ear.

  Bill Walton

  Dad, Sight, Play

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I grew up in a household in which the Bible played very little role.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Roles, Littles, Grew Up

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I can't say unfortunately but sadly - I've got babies in more than one household.

  RZA

  Baby, I Can

  Source: www.rappersiknow.com

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• I grew up in a household in which we had a clock that we won at Revere Beach during the Depression - one of those brass clocks that didn't work - but it showed Franklin D. Roosevelt standing at the wheel of the New Deal.

  Nat Hentoff

  Beach, Wheels, Franklin

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.

  A. N. Wilson

  Jobs, Responsibility, Men

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• There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet.

  Philo Farnsworth

  Funny, Humorous, Intellectual

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• The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community - and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.

  Wendell Berry

  Mean, Community, Political

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.58, Counterpoint

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• Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Tasks, Cleaning, Endless

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• The early industrialists were for the most part men who had their origin in the same social strata from which their workers came. They lived very modestly, spent only a fraction of their earnings for their households and put the rest back into the business.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Earning, Social

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• Friends come and go, clothing is packed and unpacked, households are continually purged of unnecessary items, and as a result, not much sticks. it's hard at times but it makes a kid strongs in ways that most people can't understand. Teaches them that even though people are left behind, new ones will inevitably take their place; that every place has something good and bad to offer. It makes a kid grow up fast.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Growing Up, Kids, People

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Apr 07, 2011

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• America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet.

  Dick Gregory

  America, Giving, Black History

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• This, after all, was the month in which families began tightening and closing and sealing; from Thanksgiving to the New Year, everybody's world contracted, day by day, into the microcosmic single festive household, each with its own rituals and obsessions, rules and dreams. You didn't feel you could call people. They didn't feel they could phone you. How does one cry for help from these seasonal prisons?

  Zadie Smith

  Dream, New Year, Phones

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• Being raised in an unstable household makes you understand that the world doesn't exist to accommodate you, which... is something a lot of people struggle to understand well into their adulthood. It makes you realize how quickly a situation can shift, how danger really is everywhere. But crises when the occur, do not catch you off guard; you have never believed you lived under a shelter of some essential benevolence. And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Struggle, People, Appreciate

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