Household Quotes

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.

He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.

The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.

I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.

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

I grew up in a very political household. My mum used to shout at the television. At Mrs. Thatcher.

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

I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home.

Each heart has its graveyard, each household its dead, And knells ring around us wherever we tread, And the feet that awhile made our pathway so bright Pass on to a land that is out of our sight.

I was brought up in a household with sir and ma'am.

But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos.

Personally, being somewhat envious of Richard's (Thompson) songwriting and guitar playing, it's somewhat satisfying he's not yet achieved household-name status. It serves him right for being so good.

It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers.

In my household there is an insane amount of laughter and celebration.

The Labour Party is being led by a woman but she has not been elected to anything. She is the lady who makes the breakfast in the Kinnock household.

I became the head of the household. I went to school in the morning and sold wines all afternoon until seven o'clock in the evening.

God, keep me from what they call 'households,'

Writing jokes for others is like having babies for someone else. It's sad. Like the woman who gives up her baby but needs to be close so she secretly becomes the maid in the household.

If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

I grew up in a household in which the Bible played very little role.

I think when we stop putting labels and start worrying more about the performance, that's when you're able to cross over and make yourself a household name and go everywhere.

As if being a former vampire drone in a werewolf household were not shocking enough, the maid then opened her mouth and proved that she was also, quite reprehensibly, French.

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.

Joy is obtaining a big, loving, caring shut-knit household in yet another town.

I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree; For sure then I should grow To fruit or shade: at least some bird would trust Her household to me, and I should be just.

One of the most visible effects of a child's presence in the household is to turn the worthy parents into complete idiots when, without him, they would perhaps have remained mere imbeciles.

If people read 'Tomorrow' and feel that it is offering them some view of my own household, they would be very, very wrong.

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."

[Margaret Thatcher] assumed somehow that this would get the woman voter and all those juvenile male voters who wanted a well-regulated household with a woman who knew what she should be doing.

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

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.

I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.

I grew up in a crazy, gypsy-like household of actors, dancers and loony Broadway people. It was their way of life, and I didn't know anything else.

I grew up in the East End of London, the youngest of three boys in a Catholic household. Both my parents were market traders and worked seven days a week.

Many make the household but only one the home.

See, indeed, that your daughter is thoroughly grounded and experienced in household duties; but take care, through religion and poetry, to keep her heart open to heaven.

When I was born, my father wanted to drown me, but my mother persuaded him to let me live in disguise, to see if I could bring any wealth to the household.

When it comes to diversity, women are still underrepresented in so many different places, but one place we're not underrepresented is we hold a majority of the household income, and we control that.

I was raised in a household where I read Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky and Kant, and I was never taught that my mind was feminine. I'm aware that my body is.

I was reared in a Jehovah's Witness household. I was taught that every man should be judged by his deeds and not his color, and I firmly stand where my grandmother left me.

By the time we complete the care for the wounded soldiers, $6 trillion, that's $50,000 per American household.

I grew up in a household where we didn't really talk about our feelings, and where the only reason you went to a doctor was because you'd accidentally cut off a limb with a chain saw.

It will allow us to control all the communication needs of a household with one device.

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.

America has had to turn to foreigners to finance its debt - not surprising since household saving in the last years has plummeted to zero. China is one of the largest holders of American debt.

fully half of Household miseries arise from a lack of order.

For national and social disasters, for moral and financial evils, the cure begins in the Household.

In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year.

I was not even allowed to mention the name Madonna in my household - just because I think the '80s and '90s were so Madonna-filled. She was going through so many evolutions at that time.

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