Home Quotes

I think maternal instinct is a male construct that has been used for centuries to keep women in their place, at home.

Leila Slimani
- Women
- Home
I think that some of our soldiers die in the battlefield and some come home to bad health and die prematurely, just by the nature of the kind of business they're in.

Christopher Shays
- Business
- Bad
- Nature

In theory, food writing is an aid or a prelude to actual meals: you read a recipe, and then you cook. In practice - in a 'paradox' that Michael Pollan, among others, has identified - our current gastronomic fantasies, particularly on TV, have coincided with a decline in home cooking.

Bee Wilson
- Writing
- Food
- Practice
The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office).

Faith Popcorn
- People
- Live
- Power
I am the oldest of three. I was in charge of making sure my brother and sister were OK and also entertained so they didn't bother my mother, who had a job at home.

Bill Irwin
- Job
- Mother
- Brother
For a long time, the film business was a single-digit business on investment return. Now, because of home video, it's a low double-digit business, and the studios want to make sure it doesn't go back into the single-digit business.

Charles Roven
- Time
- Long
- Business
Parents are working more than ever before and unable to monitor what kids are eating at home, and schools are selling astronomical amounts of junk food in order to supplement shrinking budgets. It's a ticking time bomb, and America's children are exploding.

Lisa Ling
- Time
- Children
- Kids
I often feel very guilty because of the time that I spend outside of my home and the little time that sometimes I have for my kids.

Antonio Banderas
- Time
- Kids
- Guilty