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Quotes About Household

Journalist: 'Have you received any death threats?' Harry Redknapp: 'Only from the wife when I didn't do the washing up!'.
~ Harry Redknapp
the average American household is in more danger from chemical germ-killers than from germs.
~ Philip Yancey
Just wanted to remind you that we're out of milk again. And hot sauce. Why are those two always out at the same time? Because those do not go together. I suspect Shane. He'd put hot sauce in anything, Michael said.
~ Rachel Caine
It's your chili dog. Clean it up. It's your turn to clean. The house. Not your trash, which you can walk your leatherfaced-ass unto the kitchen to throw away.
~ Rachel Caine
As for sweeping the floor, polishing the windows, dusting, and general drudgery of that sort Ã¢â'¬Â¦ well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment?
~ Diana Gabaldon
When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated.
~ Washed Out
The household has become the place where the consumption of wages takes place
~ Ivan Illich
I grew up in an environment where it was permittable to use violence to solve a problem. But it was not permittable ever to call the police under any circumstances. That was the kind of doctrine of my household. My dad was a career-long criminal, and you weren't calling the police for any reason.
~ Charlie Hunnam
I would never commit acts of domestic or family violence, stalking or sex offenses against Vince Russo or his household members or any other kind of member that he might have hanging around. Never would I do such a thing. I swear to that.
~ Jim Cornette
The average American husband has relinquished his responsibility as head of his household. Though the wife is partly at fault, he is mostly to blame. I'm not suggesting that women should return to the subservient position before their emancipation when they were virtually slaves of their husbands. But freedom for women can be overdone.
~ Lorne Greene
Modi has always been very particular about law and order. He believes in fairness and justice, and encouraged us to simply work as per law without fear or favour. His ability to think big and implement it on the ground is exemplary. He had a vision of a bank account for every household.
~ Amit Shah
I appreciate all the trouble you went to in order to ensure my survival." "Purely selfish, I assure you." "Because you need me to oversee your household?" "Because I need you to marry. Men tend to frown at the notion of marrying someone who isn't breathing.
~ Lorraine Heath
Housekeeping ain't no joke.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Any household with at least one feline member has no need for an alarm clock.
~ Unknown
Matthew 10:36," he'd said. "And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. Never forget that, Agent Lacoste.
~ Louise Penny
hic sacra domus carique penates, hic mihi Roma fuit.
~ Lucan
Most American women are very uncomfortable about having servants. They don't know what to do while you are there.
~ Unknown
Bravely spoken, mother! cried her son: these sentiments are worthy of a governor. And if it chance that any of the maids should break her neck; the cook get tipsy, or set the chimney on fire; the butler, for joy, let all the malmsey run upon the floor, or down his throat, yon shall not hear a word of such small tricks. If, indeed, an earthquake were to overset the house! that, my dear mother, could not be kept secret.
~ Ludwig Tieck
If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might turn your clothes right side out when you put them in the hamper, eh?
~ Jodi Picoult
By late March 1942, everyone knew someone who had been deported... It was the season of Passover, and this was our plague, but no amount of lambs' blood would save a household from tragedy. It seemed the only blood that satisfied was that of the families inside.
~ Jodi Picoult
Goof Off, which is a mixture of xylene and various other solvents. It's great for dried latex paint, as well as many inks and glues. Place the fabric, stain side down, on a white cotton towel and drip the solvent through. If this doesn't do the job, pour some of the solvent onto a piece of white cotton and dab at the stain. Never rub!
~ Joe Schwarcz
if you wanted to flush the toilet you had to lift the lid off the water tank, roll up a sleeve, and reach deep into the cold and rusty water to manipulate the valves.
~ John Cheever
I gave that bi... a plunger, 'cause bi...es love bringing up old sh...
~ Unknown
The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history
~ Henry Ward Beecher