Florence King Quotes About Home

Quotes about: Home

• A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.

  Florence King

  Home, Grandmother, Eggs

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.65, Macmillan

• Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time.

  Florence King

  Home, Unique, Equality

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.91, Macmillan

• The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmoth.

  Florence King

  Depression, Growing Up, Home

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.65, Macmillan

• Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time. To keep citizens puttering in their yards instead of sputtering on the barricades, the government has gladly deprived itself of billions in tax revenues by letting home owners deduct mortgage interest payments.

  Florence King

  Women, Home, Unique

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.91, Macmillan

• Recently while browsing in a secondhand bookstore I bought a paperback copy of The Intellectual and the City, but I was unable to read it. When I got home I discovered that the original owner had highlighted the entire book - literally. Every line on every page had been drawn through with a bright green Magic Marker. It was a terrifying example of a mind that had lost all power of discrimination.

  Florence King

  Book, Home, Cities

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.93, Macmillan

• Hereditary monarchy offers numerous advantages for America. It is the only form of government able to unify a heterogeneous people. Thanks to centuries of dynastic marriage, the family tree of every royal house is an ethnic grab bag with something for everybody. We need this badly; America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home. We can't go on much longer depending upon disasters like Pearl Harbor and the Iranian hostage-taking to "bring us together.

  Florence King

  Country, Home, Government

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.125, Macmillan

• The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmother. A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.... The emotionally satisfying discussions that take place in Chronic Pain Outreach and Depression Resources are simply updated versions of the grandmotherly practice of hanging crepe. We could eliminate much of the isolation that support groups exist to fill and save the "traditional family" that everybody is so worried about if more couples took their aging parents to live with them.

  Florence King

  Growing Up, Couple, Pain

• America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.

  Florence King

  Country, Home, America

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.125, Macmillan

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