Household Quotes - Page 14

• I'm not even a household name in my own household

  Mike Middleton

  Names, Boxing, My Own

  "Sacrificial lamb gets a roasting" by John Rawling, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2001.

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• Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on the back was definitely not encouraged, and pleasure or pride would be punishable by death.

  Hugh Laurie

  Humility, Pride, Self

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• I grew up in a household without a lot of problems and they have been very supportive from day one

  Mario Lopez

  Supportive, Problem, Grew Up

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• If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, 'Who could have done this? We have no enemies!'

  Phyllis Diller

  Doors, House, Enemy

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• When you're single, you're very independent. Very independent women raised me. We didn't have a lot of male figures as the head of our household, so I got, and took on, a lot of that strong spirit from the matriarchs in my family.

  Tichina Arnold

  Strong, Independent, Males

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• Look at the political base of the Democratic Party: It is single mothers who run a household. Why? Because it's so tough economically that they look to the government for help and therefore they're going to vote. So if you want to reduce the Democratic advantage, what you want to do is build two parent families, you eliminate that desire for government.

  Rick Santorum

  Mother, Running, Party

  "Rick Santorum: Single Mothers Make Up ‘Democratic Advantage’" by Laura Bassett, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2011.

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• How would you describe the spiritual aroma of your home? The source of this aroma is the relationship between husband and wife. Many can fake an attempt at keeping God’s standards in some external way. What we cannot fake is the resulting, distinctive aroma of pleasure to God. Most marriage books address the mere externals of marriage, without seeking to understand the heart issues. Godly marriages proceed from an obedient heart, and the greatest desire of an obedient heart is the glory of God, not the happiness of the household.

  Douglas Wilson

  Spiritual, Husband, Book

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• The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly operates revolutions in our way of life, terminates an epoch of infancy or of youth which was waiting to be closed, breaks up a wonted occupation, or a household, or style of living, and allows the formation of new ones more friendly to the growth of character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Brother, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.22, Xist Publishing

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• The 'environmental crisis' has happened because the human household or economy is in conflict at almost every point with the household of nature. We have built our household on the assumption that the natural household is simple and can be simply used. We have assumed increasingly over the last five hundred years that nature is merely a supply of 'raw materials,' and that we may safely possess those materials by taking them.... And so we will be wrong if we attempt to correct what we perceive as 'environmental' problems without correcting the economic oversimplification that caused them.

  Wendell Berry

  Inspiring, Simple, Years

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth”, p.178, Counterpoint Press

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• So much were employers of wage-labor unenthusiastic about proletarianization that, in addition to fostering the gender age division of labor, they also encouraged, in their employment patters and through their influence in the political arena, recognition of defined ethnic groups, seeking to link them to specific allocated roles in the labor-force, with different levels of real remuneration for their work. Ethnicity created a cultural crust which consolidated the patterns of semi-proletarian household structures.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Real, Ethnicity, Division Of Labor

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• The role of the schoolmaster is to collect little plastic lumps of human dough from private households and shape them on the social kneading board.

  Edward Alsworth Ross

  School, Boards, Roles

  Edward Alsworth Ross (2009). “Social Control: A Survey of the Foundations of Order”, p.168, Transaction Publishers

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• In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology

  Barack Obama

  Book, Mind Blowing, Greek

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.203, Canongate Books

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• A kitten is the delight of a household. All day long, comedy is played by an incomparable actor.

  Champfleury

  Cat, Long, Actors

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• [In research on bacteria metabolism] we have indeed much the same position as an observer trying to gain an idea of the life of a household by careful scrutiny of the persons and material arriving or leaving the house; we keep accurate records of the foods and commodities left at the door and patiently examine the contents of the dust-bin and endeavour to deduce from such data the events occurring within the closed doors.

  Marjory Stephenson

  Science, Doors, Dust

  Marjory Stephenson (1939). “Bacterial metabolism”

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• I will be master of what is mine own:
  She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house,
  My household stuff, my field, my barn,
  My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Horse, House

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.346, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.

  Frank Langella

  Home, Grew Up, Lungs

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• It may be unpopular and out-of-date to say-but I do not think that a scientific result which gives us a better understanding of the world and makes it more harmonious in our eyes should be held in lower esteem than, say, an invention which reduces the cost of paving roads, or improves household plumbing.

  Alfred Tarski

  Eye, Science, Thinking

  Alfred Tarski (1986). “Alfred Tarski, Collected Papers: 1935-1944”, Birkhauser

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• I was raised in the city, shitty
  Ever since I was an itty bitty kitty
  Drinkin' liquor out my momma's titty
  And smokin' weed was an everyday thang in my household,
  And drinking liquor til' you out cold

  Tupac Shakur

  Weed, Drinking, Rap

  Song: Death Around The Corner

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• The financial wealth of the top 1 percent of households in the U.S. exceeds the combined wealth of the bottom 95 percent.

  Ralph Nader

  Financial, Wealth, Bottom

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• It is within the sanctuary of the Church that we protect our faith. Meeting together with others who believe, we pray and find answers to our prayers; we worship through music, share testimony of the Savior, serve one another, and feel the Spirit of the Lord. We partake of the sacrament, receive the blessings of the priesthood, and attend the temple. . . When you are faced with a test of faith, stay within the safety and security of the household of God. There is always a place for you here. No trial is so large we can't overcome it together.

  Neil L. Andersen

  Prayer, Believe, Blessing

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• The word ‘grunge’ became a household term, and fashion runways were filled with flannel shirts and long underwear. Oh, how we laughed… Every now and then when I’m feeling a little nostalgic, I put on my ‘grunge tuxedo’ - flannel shirt, long shorts with long underwear underneath them, and a pair of Doc Martens - and dance around the house to Tad records.

  Dave Grohl

  Fashion, Long, House

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• The heart is the household divinity which, discharging its function, nourishes, cherishes, quickens the whole body, and is indeed the foundation of life, the source of all action.

  William Harvey

  Heart, Foundation, Body

  William Harvey (1847). “The works of William Harvey, M.D.”, p.47

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• Why do some persons 'find' God in a way that others do not? Why does God manifest His Presence to some and let multitudes of others struggle along in the half-light of imperfect Christian experience? Of course the will of God is the same for all. He has no favorites within His household. All He has ever done for any of His children He will do for all of His children. The difference lies not with God but with us.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Children, Lying

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• How many times should you forgive your household bruiser? You should not even think about forgiving him. Not yet. Not as long as he has his foot on your neck. Your problem at this point is not forgiving. Your problem is how to get out of his reach. Once you get away from him, you can think about forgiving him.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Thinking, Feet

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• This is a government which is proposing to put at risk our manufacturing industry, to penalise struggling families, to make a tough situation worse for millions of households right around Australia. And for what? To make not a scrap of difference to the environment any time in the next 1000 years.

  Tony Abbott

  Struggle, Australia, Government

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