Quotes About Household

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.

When I go home my mother still makes me take out the garbage.

Have I got a mother-in-law. She's so neat she puts paper under the cuckoo clock.

I come from a Greek household. My mother wouldn't let the FedEx man come in without eating.

Secular music was not allowed in our household.

The kitchen is the great laboratory of the household, and much of the 'weal and woe' as far as regards bodily health, depends on the nature of the preparations concocted within its walls.

Nature meant me A wife, a silly, harmless, household dove, Fond without art, and kind without deceit.

My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.

In that day, we didn't have no remote controls and vacuum cleaners. If you wanted all that stuff you had children!

Peace must begin within self before there can come action or self application in a way to bring peace-even in thine own household, in thine own vicinity, in thine own state or nation.

It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use by our purposeful philosophy in its well-ordered household.

I grew up in a household where we talked politics a lot and argued politics a lot.

Who shall say I am notthe happy genius of my household?

The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and domestic values, but because the cat in quiescence is medicinal to irritable, tense, tortured men and women.

In reality, he ventured, the freedom and equality of savages is not a sign of their superiority; it's a sign of inferiority, since it is only possible in a society where each household is largely self-sufficient and, therefore, where everyone is equally poor.

What this also meant was that honor and credit became, effectively, the same thing: at least for a poor man, one's creditworthiness was precisely one's command over one's household, and (the flip side, as it were) relations of domestic authority, relations that in principle involved a responsibility for care and protection, became property rights that could indeed be bought and sold.

The European conception of individual freedom was, by contrast, tied ineluctably to notions of private property. Legally, this association traces back above all to the power of the male household head in ancient Rome, who could do whatever he liked with his chattels and possessions, including his children and slaves.

Exhort your household to learn [the Ten Commandments] word for word, that they should obey God…For if you teach and urge your families things will go forward.

The chemicals in the dishwashing process tend not to be good for saucepans.

The good thing is, we have household formation in this country. We have a country where I don't know whether it's a million households a year or more, but good form.

The [Elian] raid... was almost worth it, if only to watch Jesse Jackson...defending an armed pre-dawn raid by the US government on a minority household.

If I admire my arms, my face, my shoulders, flanks, buttocks against the yellow drawn shades,-- Who shall say I am not the happy genius of my household?

My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.