Household Quotes - Page 24

• Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12.

  Lucille Roybal-Allard

  Children, Domestic Violence, Age

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• It's still hard for me to talk about the day I visited a shelter for children who were victims of a domestic-violence household. The kinds of abuse they had suffered, and what it had done to them physically and emotionally ?- I don't have words for what I saw. This has to stop.

  Michael Dean Crapo

  Children, Abuse, Domestic Violence

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• What we're doing with the digital permissions that we have for Xbox One is no different to that. If I am playing on that disc, which is installed to the hard drive on my Xbox One, everybody in my household who has permission to use my Xbox One can use that piece of content. So I can give that piece of content to my son and he can play it on the same system.

  Larry Hryb

  Xbox, Son, Play

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• In a household tragedy, you are very much aware of being alone. It is something that is possible to grasp, and that is why it hurts so much. Because you are alone. I know a little about this.

  Per Petterson

  Hurt, Tragedy, Littles

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

  Charles Seymour Robinson

  Children, Christ, Given

  Charles Seymour Robinson (1880). “Studies in the New Testament”

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• The nature of my compulsion was such that I danced in my sleep. The entire household was sometimes awakened by loud thumping sounds coming from my room.

  Gelsey Kirkland

  Sleep, Sound, Rooms

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• Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Husband, Father, Wife

  "The Limits of State Action". Book by Wilhelm von Humboldt. Chapter 3, 1792.

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• In a hamlet of ten households, there are bound to be those who are my equal in doing their best for others and in being trustworthy in what they say, but they are unlikely to be as eager to learn as I am.

  Confucius

  Learning, Trustworthy, Unlikely

  Confucius (1979). “Lunyu”

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• I have yet to hear anyone afflicted with the "gun control" disability dial 9-1-1 and specify, "Now please be sure to send the kind of cops who are disarmed. If you can't do that, we'd rather you not send anyone at all to stop the men who are holding my daughter at knifepoint, because in this household we don't believe that guns ever solve anything."

  Vin Suprynowicz

  Daughter, Believe, Gun

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• The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

  Aristophanes

  Love, Respect, Teacher

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• I run my household. Not all the time, well, sometimes.

  Arash

  Running, Sometimes, Wells

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• Of this voyage, I observe, that it has miraculously been shown, as may be understood by this writing, by the many signal miracles that He has shown on the voyage, and for me, who for so great a time was in the court of Your Highnesses with the opposition and against the opinion of so many high personages of your household, who were all against me, alleging this undertaking to be folly, which I hope in Our Lord will be to the greater glory of Christianity, which to some slight extent already has happened.

  Christopher Columbus

  Time, Writing, Miracle

  "Journal of the First Voyage". Book by Bartolomé de Las Casas. Entry for March 15, 1493,

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• Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household emergencies and its action varies accordingly as it is taken in a wineglass or a tablespoon, inhaled, gargled or rubbed on the chest by hard fingers covered with rings.

  Robert Graves

  Taken, Mixtures, Emergencies

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• Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be prudential, in order to be permanent, by providing that the reservoir which feeds should also be fed.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Self, Order, Should

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• The foundations of our Empire are now based more firmly than ever! The birth of a Crown Prince shows that the prosperity of the Imperial Household is increasing many times.

  Sadao Araki

  Foundation, Crowns, Empires

  "Sun's Son's Son". "TIME" Magazine, January 1, 1934.

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• Our society is monstrously disjunctive, at once so efficient in war and so inefficient in caring for the welfare of its members. It is frightening to see people rooting in garbage pails on streets, living in cardboard crates under bridges, while their government wages war. Even when there is an emergency in a household, decent parents do not forget to feed the children.

  Anne Truitt

  Children, War, Caring

  Anne Truitt (1996). “PROSPECT: The Journal of an Artist”, Scribner

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• You have a great many things to do when you are under house arrest. On the one hand, it is more comfortable than sitting in prison; on the other hand, you have to look after a household, which is strenuous under such circumstances.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Hands, House, Looks

  "'We Have to Tackle This -- With Peaceful Means'". Interview with Thilo Thielke, www.spiegel.de. November 22, 2010.

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• Women occupy, in great masses, the 'household tasks' of industry. They are nurses but not doctors, secretaries but not executives, researchers but not writers, workers but not managers, bookkeepers but not promoters.

  Vivian Gornick

  Doctors, Nurse, Tasks

  Vivian Gornick (1978). “Essays in feminism”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Gossip, Age, Mouths

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• I grew up in a Caribbean family household, so the parents are always right. My father smacked me up til I was 20. It was a strict household.

  Wyclef Jean

  Father, Parent, Grew Up

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• In 1944 James Arthur and Minnie Susan were added to the Marx household.

  Harpo Marx

  Arthur, Minnie

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• Homosexuals are rarely monogamous and have as many as 300 to 1,000 sexual partners over the course of a lifetime. … [T]he risk of sexual abuse in a homosexual household is much greater than in a heterosexual household.

  Bryan Fischer

  Risk, Abuse, Lifetime

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• If a cow walked into this room, I'd probably walk out. I could milk it, but my dad never forced me to do a lot of chores like that, mostly because he loved doing it himself.

  Stuart Appleby

  Dad, Cows, Rooms

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

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• The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household.

  William Christopher Handy

  Eye, Names, House

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• Squeezed for money, the affected households often need to lower the quality of their food, which then impacts the overall development of their children.

  Sheikh Hasina

  Children, Impact, Quality

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