Quotes About Household

Statisticians report that television is watched over six hours a day in the average American household. I don't know any fiction writers who live in average American households. I suspect Louise Erdrich might. Actually I have never seen an average American household. Except on TV.

I would clear the table and Hugh would do the dishes, neither of us speaking and both of us wondering if this just might be the one to do it. 'I hear you guys broke up over a plastic hand,' people would say, and my rage would renew itself.

In my house, our parents put us to bed with two simple words: "Shut up." That was always the last thing we heard before our lights were turned off. Our artwork did not hang on the refrigerator or anywhere near it, because our parents recognized it for what it was: crap. They did not live in a child's house, we lived in theirs.

The broom wasn't as comforting as a flamethrower would have been, but it was better than a mop and certainly more threatening than a feather duster.

I couldn't help but notice the placidity of a small female household. In Tracey's home, disappointment in the man was ancient history: they never really had any hope in him, for he had almost never been at home.

I am too ambitious to become a house husband.

You were not born to be the mother of a family or the steward of a household. If you have children, I hope they will not come to spoil your figure on the morrow of your marriage; nothing is so bourgeois as to have a child at once. If you have them two or three years after your marriage, well and good;

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

I would love to have a robot at home.

when Ellen Gorman was getting into the shower, she would place her towel and hairbrush on the counter near the shower. But when she got out of the shower, they were gone. The items would then turn up in odd places in other parts of the house.

I'm a private victim of a peculiar household.

You know I can't let you murder people before dinner," she murmured. "It throws the entire household off schedule.

It's not as if I don't like men, I just have more respect for my washing machine.

Sometimes success is just getting the laundry into the dryer before the mildew sets in

Good, because your mother says you're not getting out of helping in the kitchen just because you're a faerie princess now. She got you those long kitchen gloves so that you can still wash dishes.

She'd grown up in a strict household; she'd gone insane with freedom the minute she ran away and got out on her own.

The man and husband of the household is responsible for the way your family's income is managed.

No wire hangers!!!

Unlike Sophie, I don't keep every worn-out rag about the house. I can't vouch for the holes. Those old woolen liveries make a feast for moths. It only encourages pests to hang around if you feed them.' 'Do you suppose that is why he has given us no more than a cup of cocoa after our night's labor?' Claudia asked Loo in a loudish voice. 'Would you care for a biscuit, Miss Milmont?' Thoreau asked.

Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.

Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception. There were times I stayed in my room for days on end with headphones on, if only so that I would not have to listen to my mother cry. There were the weeks that my father worked round-the-clock shifts, so that he wouldn't have to come home to a house that felt too big for us.

By liberating women from household work and helping to abolish professions such as domestic service, the washing machine and other household goods completely revolutionised the structure of society.

It's a real shame that vibrators can't kill spiders or mow the lawn.

It will allow us to control all the communication needs of a household with one device.