Quotes About Household

When my dad needed a shirt ironed, he would yell downstairs to my mother, who would drop everything and iron his shirt.

I'm the disciplinarian. Nick doesn't discipline. The cat can do whatever it wants. It can scratch on the furniture. It can do whatever it wants and Nick doesn't do anything about it. So I have to yell. I'm the bad cop. He's the good cop.

I sort of feel like people are not that honest about their own parenting. Take any teenage household; tell me there is not yelling and conflict.

She was scrubbing furiously at a line of grease spots which led from the stove towards the door to the dining-room. That was where Henry had held the platter tilted as he carried the steak in yesterday. And yet if she had warned him once about that, she had a thousand times!

Richelle Mead's 'Vampire Academy' saga is set to be the next young adult paranormal series to become a household name.

Cisco projects that in 2020, now just five years away, there will be seven billion people on the earth and 50 billion devices connected to the Internet. Six-and-a-half devices on average per person. As a father of five young adults and teenagers, I think we are - in my household, we've exceeded the 6.5 number.

I definitely had a very religious upbringing. My father was just instilling good morals into us at a very young age, and it wasn't super-strict, but it was a loving, warm household.

A lot of new stepparents fall into the trap of letting children disobey household expectations in order to gain favor with them.

I'm the breadwinner. I kill the spiders. Actually I don't kill them. I put them in a plastic bag and take them outside. I take out the trash cans. I change the light bulbs. I lug the 50 lbs. suitcases down the stairs.

From the way that we build cars or going after space travel, I get excited about the transportation space because it's the second-highest household expense after housing.

When I go out, I love to put on mascara and lipstick, but I simply don't have time for leisurely facials and treatments. Going to the beauticians is not a priority for me, as when I'm off work, there is always so much catching up in the house to do.

Cleaning with children in the house really is like brushing your teeth while eating Oreos.

I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff.

We know you're strong enough to move the television set. But you should let him do it; say it's too heavy for you—it's a man's job.

Kai looked after him, saddened. Why couldn't Aidan understand? Brian has virtually begged for his punishment. The maintenance of a household demanded order— his father had said so a thousand times. Such a savage thing would never happen to Aidan, who was obedient and polite. Never. Why couldn't he see that? Why couldn't he play? It was disturbing, and confusing, and just a bit irritating to be so dependent on the availability of a slave.

I've got two brothers and there was a male dog and two male cats and every family we knew had three boys. Great for us, slightly less great for my mum.

My wife doesn't let anyone wear shoes in our house, so we have a bench, and under the bench is all UGGs slippers.

The way it works in my family is as follows: they first loosen their grip at 16 when you are encouraged to get a Saturday job. I was clamouring to start earning and had been doing cleaning jobs around the house for small amounts of money for years.

I grew up in a conservative household, my parents were small business owners, so it really just was kind of part of who we were.

I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.

I love folding clothes just out of the dryer because they smell so amazing.

Men have seemed miraculous to the world, in whom their wives and valets have never seen anything even worth noticing. Few men have been admired by their own households.

William pouts irritably. Socialism is not the same thing as letting one's servants muddle towards anarchy. But never mind, never mind: on a day like today, it's not worth worrying over. Soon the servant question, at least in William Rackham's household, will be resolved beyond any ambiguity.

Annushka has already bought the sunflower oil, and has not only bought it, but has already spilled it.