Household Quotes

• Faith is hidden household capital.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Faith
  • Capital
  • Household

• 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.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Learn
  • Families

• I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.

  

  Kay Boyle
  • Happens
  • Performing
  • Difficulty

• I grew up writing. It was very natural in my household. My father was a poet, and his mother had been a novelist back in Hungary. I don't think I really thought about it being my career until high school, which is still pretty early, but it was a while there of just assuming this was something everyone did all day long.

  

  Rebecca Makkai
  • Career
  • Assuming
  • Hungary

• For Golden it was hard not to think that there might be something wrong about a household in which the dog was wearing underwear and the children weren't.

  

  Brady Udall
  • Children
  • Golden
  • Wearing

• Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Artists
  • Household
  • Housewives

• I grew up in a household where we cooked all the time. My mom cooked all the time; my dad cooked. My grandmothers cooked. I have memories of sitting on the counter and snapping green beans with my grandmother.

  

  Haylie Duff
  • Mom
  • Memories
  • Beans

• My brother was older, and since the law of the west was fairly entrenched in our household, whoever was bigger got control of the television. I sat mesmerized, and horrified, through hundreds of gunfights and became emotionally involved with everyone in Bonanza and Gunsmoke.

  

  Elizabeth Crook
  • Brother
  • Television
  • Emotionally

• The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Woman
  • Destroy
  • Household

• When you have given yourself to Christ, leave yourself there, and go about your work as a child in His household.

  

  Charles Seymour Robinson
  • Children
  • Christ
  • Given

• In a way, an autobiography seems to me like a household book of accounts – what has been acquired, to what purpose has it been put, was too much paid for it and did it teach you anything? How much has been learned by experience? Have I discovered where I am useful and useless, how I am nourished and starved?

  

  Elizabeth Jane Howard
  • Teach
  • Learned
  • Discovered

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

  

  Beverley Jones
  • Mother
  • Household
  • Appliance

• Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.

  

  Moliere
  • Driven
  • Household
  • Reasoning

• Is this politics? I suppose I am going to have to learn all about it, if I am to run Lord Ferris's household, and throw parties and all. Now...explain to me again just who hates who, and why?

  

  Ellen Kushner
  • Politics
  • Suppose
  • Hates

• I was pretty much raised in an entirely vegetarian household. I wasn't aware that there was a whole community of vegetarians out there. There was a point where I said, "I want to understand the other side of this situation," and I ate meat for maybe three years. Then right around the time that I phased meat out and became vegetarian, I recognized that I was lactose intolerant. So again, I was completely naïve to the fact that there was a thing called veganism. After a few years, I started going to a lot of hardcore shows where everybody was straight edge and vegan. That was when I found out that there were other people that were like-minded.

  

  Derek James Grant
  • Understand
  • Meat
  • Vegetarian

• Squeezed for money, the affected households often need to lower the quality of their food, which then impacts the overall development of their children.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Children
  • Quality
  • Development

• Living with anyone for many years takes skill. To keep peace in the household, couples learn to adapt to one another, hopefully in positive ways.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Couple
  • Hopefully
  • Household

• I believe this was Margaret Thatcher estimate of the voter: "These people are so stupid that they will vote for me because they think I know how to run the household."

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Believe
  • Running
  • Stupid

• I can't say unfortunately but sadly - I've got babies in more than one household.

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • Baby
  • Household

• Margaret Thatcher was pretending that running a country was like running a household, which she knew wasn't true.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Country
  • Running
  • Pretending

• Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household.

  

  Paul Lynde
  • Conversation
  • Constant
  • Household

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