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Quotes About Household

Women's role in the household has changed since the women's movement. I don't know if women's role outside the household has changed. I mean, are more women mowing lawns and fixing shingles and doing electrical work and plumbing?
~ Margaret Hoover
My overwhelming memory of my childhood is the constant busyness in the house. I am seventh out of eight kids - five boys and three girls - plus my mom, Ruth.
~ Gregory Porter
All I'm thinking about today is cleaning my bathroom.
~ Linda Fiorentino
I still can't set up the ironing-board. A complete Luddite.
~ Jenny Eclair
If you look at the American Household Survey, the last time we did that in 2013, renters in over 2.8 million homes thought they would be evicted soon.
~ Matthew Desmond
A lot of our sources for income-inequality measures come from household surveys in which people report how much they earned in the last year, how much income they have, and so on. Those are not as well funded as they should be. We need to have those numbers.
~ Angus Deaton
In 1944 James Arthur and Minnie Susan were added to the Marx household.
~ Harpo Marx
I grew up in Winnipeg, in the Canadian midwest, the fifth child. It was a great household to grow up in - I was loved to sweet death.
~ Len Cariou
I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.
~ Natalie Wood
The seed is a household object but at the same time it is a revolutionary symbol.
~ Ai Weiwei
I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.
~ Daniel Day-Lewis
Deflation can be particularly dangerous when a financial system is shaky, with household and corporate balance sheets in poor shape and banks undercapitalized and heavily burdened with bad loans.
~ Ben Bernanke
Like most aspects of mental accounting, setting up non-fungible budgets is not entirely silly. Be it with mason jars, envelopes, or sophisticated financial apps, a household that makes a serious effort to create a financial plan will have an easier time living within its means. The same goes for businesses, large or small. But sometimes those budgets can lead to bad decision-making, such as deciding that the Great Recession is a good time to upgrade the kind of gasoline you put in your car.
~ Richard H. Thaler
Carbon-arc lighting, too bright and hot for household use, would become important in industrial, lighthouse, street, and retail lighting in the decades ahead.
~ Richard Rhodes
I disobeyed Ra's wishes, and so he ordered my onw father, Shu- Hang on, I said. Shoe? S-h-u, she said. The god of the wind. On. I wished these gods had names that wearn't common household objects. Go on, please.
~ Rick Riordan
In the prosperous household of Sylvie's childhood, Cook was called 'Cook' but Mrs Glover preferred 'Mrs Glover'. It made her irreplaceable. Sylvie still stubbornly referred to her as Cook.
~ Kate Atkinson
I'll take Prince Temnos to the Heart Tavern in the Warrens." "Yes, good, that's where Ro took me after I got him out of prison and where I intend to bring anyone from our household who has escaped. I'll meet you there." Without
~ Kate Elliott
In this grave hour, perhaps the most fateful in our history, I send to every household of my peoples, both at home and overseas, this message, spoken with the same depth of feeling for each one of you as if I were able to cross your threshold and speak to you myself.
~ Kate Williams
Fitz did not censor her mail but, as the head of the family, he had the right to read any letter addressed to a female relative living in his house. No respectable woman would object.
~ Ken Follett
Family values stand up to injustice and power outside the household.
~ Ralph Nader
In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.
~ Mary Karr
Family rules? We only have one rule in our house, and that's 'Don't Be Annoying'
~ Daisy Waugh
The husband provides direction; the wife, maintenance.
~ Myles Munroe
I'm not the boss of my house. I don't know how I lost it, I don't know when I lost it, I don't really think I ever had it. But I've seen the boss's job...and I don't want it!
~ Bill Cosby, Himself