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Quotes About Domestic

Well, I think to myself now, domestic bliss may be one thing, but domestic goddess you are not.
~ Drew Barrymore
There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.
~ Karl Marx
I'm no cook. When I want lemon on chicken, I spray it with Pledge.
~ Joan Rivers
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
~ Jilly Cooper
So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, 'Where is faith being put into action here?'
~ Jim Wallis
THE LIFE OF MRS. RADCLIFFE is a pleasing phenomenon in the literature of her time. During a period, in which the spirit of personality has extended its influence, till it has rendered the habits and conversation of authors almost as public as their compositions, she confined herself, with delicate apprehensiveness, to the circle of domestic duties and pleasures.
~ Ann Radcliffe
The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.
~ Anna Quindlen
Marian sank down on one of the kitchen chairs and braced her head in her hands. He got mad at her for sweeping up spilled sugar but dragged her outside to throw a skillet at bales of hay. She threw a pot at him and missed, so he was going to teach her how to clobber him with a skillet. Even taking into account that he was an Eyrien male, there was only one explanation for his behavior. The man was insane.
~ Anne Bishop
Make yourself at home… clean my kitchen.
~ Anonymous
The more brutal it gets in the working world, the more appealing the prospect of having someone at home creating a sanctuary becomes. Increasingly couples, particularly with children, are making that tough choice, with one or other partner electing to embrace domestic duties while the other brings home the cash.
~ Mariella Frostrup
Products made in America can lead to prosperity.
~ Mike Lindell
Secondly, security. Both the challenges we face in the world and the responsibilities that our country has in protecting our people, are major issues. We need to do more in the context of domestic security.
~ Bob Menendez
As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.
~ Bill Owens
There's something that people misunderstand about screen quotas. It's not about rejecting or hating other countries' films, but about protecting our domestic film industry.
~ Min-sik Choi
I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The thing about homebodies is that they can usually be found at home. I usually am, and I like to feed people.
~ Laurie Colwin
The revival of the U.S. financial system after the crash of 2008 is arguably the Obama administration's biggest domestic policy success.
~ David Ignatius
We own our movie and are now close to breaking even, even without finishing domestic DVD deals.
~ Donal Logue
Sometimes people ask me why I began perestroika. Were the causes basically domestic or foreign? The domestic reasons were undoubtedly the main ones, but the danger of nuclear war was so serious that it was a no less significant factor.
~ Mikhail Gorbachev
Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers. In the United States, we import everything consumers want. So why not pharmaceuticals?
~ Chuck Grassley
The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.
~ Germaine Greer
For us, we're homebodies. My wife and I like to be at home with family.
~ Adam Thielen
My mother and dad were big animal lovers, too. I just don't know how I would have lived without animals around me. I'm fascinated by them - both domestic pets and the wild community. They just are the most interesting things in the world to me, and it's made such a difference in my lifetime.
~ Betty White
Wild geese have so much less fat than their domestic brethren that, as far as the kitchen is concerned, the two birds should be considered different species altogether - so much so that they require opposite roasting methods.
~ Jonathan Miles