Quotes About Upkeep

It's my duty to upkeep and safeguard my voice, my ability to sing.

Religion in modern society is only artificially kept together and upheld by the Church and by those Governments to whose social or private interest it is that it should flourish.

I'd been told, or warned, that when you paint one room, not only will it look nice, but it will also make the room next to it look as if raccoons have been living in it for the past decade.

I'm a mom - I'm lucky if I get to shower in the morning. Luckily, nail polish stays on my toes. I've been so bad on the upkeep, though.

Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repainting.

Will Rogers once said it is not the original investment in a Congressman that counts; it is the upkeep.

next week we have a bunch of horror writers coming from all over the world. That'll be one whole week, fully catered, and pre-paid bar. Those horror writers drink like fshes. Just their beer bill's gonna pay for the upkeep of this place for six months. Motel business is a great business to be in, my boy.

Higher taxes to bring down public debt would also put to rest the tawdry rhetoric according to which 'we' should not live at the expense of 'our children' – when the real problem is that the 'better-off' live at everyone else's expense by largely avoiding the social costs involved in the upkeep of their hunting grounds.

Development is maintenance.

Most homeowners want to keep their property nice, so they spend excessively on maintenance.

maintainence is elegance. Diana Vreeland. vogue magazine 1984.

Tell the story, gather the events, repeat them. Pattern is a matter of upkeep. Otherwise the weave relaxes back to threads picked up by birds to make their nests. Repeat, or the story will fall and all the king's horses and all the king's men. . . . Repeat, and cradle the pieces carefully, or events will scatter like marbles on a wooden floor.

There's always something that needs attention when you own a property.

Maintenance is terribly important.

As education and employment secretary in 1997, I inherited hundreds of schools where the roofs leaked, the windows rattled, and they relied entirely on outside toilets.

We have a group of friends of the museum who try to raise, if they can, periodically something to help us. Of course, the main thing about a building like this is its upkeep. It needs central heating and it needs central air conditioning.

State and federal studies indicate that thousands of water and sewer systems may be too old to function properly.

All of life is maintenance, for heaven's sake. That's the pleasant part. Taking care of things.

Software as an asset isn't stable over time; it needs to be maintained.

Like a sewing machine, the Dakota would offer convenience, a short-cut route to opulent living with none of the problems of upkeep, and at a fraction of the expense that went with owning a private house.

I take my personal upkeep real seriously; my sense of organization and attention to detail; my memory; my business - I love the business.

We'll look after our hospitals. We'll look after our schools. We'll look after our infrastructure.

Never invest in anything that eats or needs repainting.

If you can't afford the upkeep of your home, it makes no sense to do a reverse mortgage. You will just end up having to sell eventually when you realize you can't afford the home, and whether you have any equity left after the sale depends on the size of the reverse loan that must be settled.