Household Quotes - Page 18

• My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.

  Boz Scaggs

  Influence, Heard

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• Well, nine times out of ten when you have 2 or 3 stars in a household you have an unfortunate amount of competition that's not necessarily a healthy competition.

  Edwin Starr

  Stars, Competition, Healthy

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• Regardless, we are a two career household, and it's Dario's season, and I'm really excited about going racing.

  Ashley Judd

  Careers, Two, Racing

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• I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

  Patrick Stewart

  Childhood, Poor, Violent

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Children younger than 5 are twice as likely to die from ingesting household poisons than by gunfire - So the question for the Legislature should be: Is a parent criminally responsible for leaving an unlocked container of bleach below the sink?

  Don Kates

  Children, Gun, Parent

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• Millions of our fellow human beings continue to live as contemporary slaves, victims of abominable practices like human trafficking, forced labour and sexual exploitation. Countless children are forced to become soldiers, work in sweat shops or are sold by desperate families. Women are brutalized and traded like commodities. Entire households and villages labour under debt bondage.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Children, Practice, Sweat

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• That cross inmate of your household, who has hitherto made life a burden to you, and who has been the Juggernaut car to crush your soul into the dust, may henceforth be a glorious chariot to carry you to the heights of heavenly patience and long-suffering.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Crush, Dust, Long

  Hannah Whitall Smith (2017). “The Christian's Secret to a Happy Life”, p.179, B&H Publishing Group

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• One can imagine the government's problem. This is all pretty magical stuff to them. If I were trying to terminate the operations of a witch coven, I'd probably seize everything in sight. How would I tell the ordinary household brooms from the getaway vehicles?

  John Perry Barlow

  Government, Sight, Imagination

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• I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. There's no use doing it now, it doesn't fit anybody I know.

  Phyllis Diller

  Years, Use, Cleaning

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• Men's souls are crooked and unsound things, not good materials out of which to build friendships, families, households, cities, civilizations. But good or no, these things must be built, and we must craft them with the materials at hand, and make as strong and stubborn redoubt as we can make, lest the horrors of the Night should triumph over us, not in some distant age to come, but now.

  John C. Wright

  Strong, Night, Men

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• One suggestion my wife and I have used in our personal finance courses we teach at college is simply writing down all expenditures and seeing where the money goes. That alone will cause heads of households to think twice about x, y or z expenditure, and to consider carefully whether they really need something or not.

  Mark Skousen

  Writing, College, Thinking

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• While the technology revolution has yet to reach far into the households of those in developing countries, this is certainly another area where more developed countries can assist those in the less developed world.

  Carol Bellamy

  Country, Technology, World

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• Well-functioning financial systems are important in achieving sustained economic growth. They play a crucial role in channeling household savings into the corporate sector and allocating investment funds among firms.

  Toshihiko Fukui

  Play, Growth, Important

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• I am never five minutes into stripping the clutter from my life before I start running into the clutter that is my life.

  Robert Breault

  Running, Cleaning, Minutes

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• There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running.

  Robert Breault

  Running, Two, Important

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• It is only when a woman is economically empowered that she can negotiate at household level with her husband about the number of children that body of hers can have.

  Joyce Banda

  Children, Husband, Numbers

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• I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff.

  Gene Simmons

  Dirty, Men, Naughty

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• Men are very competent in their workplace - and this is going to sound sexist - women are better at running households and juggling lots of things, kids and scheduling and that kind of thing.

  Patricia Heaton

  Running, Kids, Men

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• The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.

  Amar Bose

  Mother, Father, Philosophy

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• Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.

  Judith Guest

  Growing Up, Political, Growing

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• Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners.

  Robert Grosseteste

  Office, Faithful, Good Man

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• And be careful of this, that each day at your meals you have two overseers over your household when you sit at meals, and of this be sure, that you shall be very much feared and reverenced.

  Robert Grosseteste

  Two, Over You, Meals

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• Education in the true sense, of course, is an enablement to serve-both the living human community in its natural household or neighborhood and the precious cultural possessions that the living community inherits or should inherit.

  Wendell Berry

  Community, Natural, Should

  "The Needed Resurgence of Trade Schools" by Tobias Roberts, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2017.

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• The lower half of households by wealth held just 3% of wealth in 1989 and only 1% in 2013.

  Janet Yellen

  Income, Half, Wealth

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• We need changes from the duties and the cares of our accustomed everyday life. They are necessary for healthy, normal living. We need occasionally to be away from our friends, our relatives, from the members of our immediate households. Such changes are good for us; they are good for them. We appreciate them better, they us, when we are away from them for a period, or they us.

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Change, Appreciate, Healthy

  Ralph Waldo Trine (2011). “Thoughts I Met on the Highway”, p.25, The Floating Press

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