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Quotes About Household

My husband is in charge of all phone, email and texting duties at home. He even has to turn on the TV and air conditioning because I'm so hopeless with technology.
~ Becki Newton
I grew up in a very political household. My mum used to shout at the television. At Mrs. Thatcher.
~ Cherie Lunghi
There was always music in my house when I was a kid. On Saturday mornings, my mother would clean house to 45s blaring out the songs of Neil Diamond, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Cat Stevens, Harry Chapin.
~ Steve Kazee
I don't know anyone who curses the way they do on the Sopranos. Not in an Italian household. I never said the word hell in front of my mother.
~ Danny Aiello
It was quite a thespian - 'thespy' - sort of household. My mum had a dance school, and my dad now works in a theatre, so I spent a lot of time going to see dance as a young child - it was just a part of who we were.
~ Elizabeth Debicki
away. It was to be a busy week in the Brazzi household. Luca's children,
~ Robyn Carr
My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
I realize that in giving birth, managing a household, raising a child, and composting potato peels in a city, I have learned some things about wildness that even Thoreau could not have known.
~ Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Clearly this wasn't the kind of household where they ate steak every night. And so Tibby chewed the meat with as much vigor as was possible for a girl who had been a vegetarian since she was nine.
~ Ann Brashares
Something wasn't right in the Nicholls household, but what could I do about it? I hated to see two kids so unhappy, but if Mr. Nicholls had his rules, who was I to question them? It was his house. Joey and Nate were his sons.
~ Ann M. Martin
Proverbs 31:27: "She looketh well to the way of her household and eateth not the bread of idleness.
~ Sandra Dallas
Have a spray deterrents (like bitter apple) around the house to spray objects or furnishings that your puppy may show an interest in chewing. Remind everyone to spray the item, not the puppy.
~ Sarah Hodgson
Nothing damages the good order of a house hold More than a feud that festers underneath The surface among its master's faithful servants. His commands do not, like well tuned music, Echo back to him in the form of promptly Executed work; no, all is jarring Discord, self-will; in the confusion he Himself's confused and scolds away to no Avail. And
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I have a life. My kids don't run my house.
~ Mayim Bialik
BOUNDARIES The extreme nature of everything I've experienced as a mother has also taught me the need for boundaries. I have learned to value my own limited energy and resources, and so I will ask my children to help me around the house. If they choose not to help, they will lose some valued object or activity.
~ Elaine N. Aron
Quale sarebbe il crimine?». «Lo sperpero di intelligenza. Una comunità che trova naturale soffocare con la cura dei figli e della casa tante energie intellettuali di donne, è nemica di se stessa e non se ne accorge».
~ Elena Ferrante
Uma comunidade que acha natural sufocar com o cuidado dos filhos e da casa tantas energias intelectuais femininas é inimiga de si mesma e não se dá conta.
~ Elena Ferrante
A woman wants to rule like a queen by involving herself in all activities of the house; and a man who fools oneself says often that she is multitasking to manage everything well.
~ Anuj Somany
Better beware of the inmates of the house than a dog if that person's building has a dangling, warning plate that reads like this 'Beware of Dog'.
~ Anuj Somany
Magistrate: What do you propose to do then, pray? Lysistrata: You ask me that! Why, we propose to administer the treasury ourselves Magistrate: You do? Lysistrata: What is there in that a surprise to you? Do we not administer the budget of household expenses? Magistrate: But that is not the same thing. Lysistrata: How so – not the same thing? Magistrate: It is the treasury supplies the expenses of the War. Lysistrata: That's our first principle – no War!
~ Aristophanes
Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done.
~ Arlie Russell Hochschild
I was raised to take pride in homemaking, and it's something that I always love to do. I know I share that pride with millions of other women all over the world. It's a good feeling, and it makes me happy.
~ Yolanda Hadid
I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books.
~ Lev Grossman
We keep a Jewish household and are raising our daughters Jewish.
~ Carlos Lopez-Cantera