Housekeeping Quotes - Page 4

• If you're a leader, your whole reason for living is to help human beings develop - to really develop people and make work a place that's energetic and exciting and a growth opportunity, whether you're running a Housekeeping Department or Google. I mean, this is not rocket science.

  Tom Peters

  Running, Mean, Opportunity

  "Tom Peters on leading the 21st-century organization". McKinsey Quarterly interview, www.mckinsey.com. September 2014.

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• Personal initiative, competitive selection, the profit motive, corrected by failure and the infinite process of good housekeeping and the personal ingenuity-here constitute the life of a free society.

  Winston Churchill

  Infinite, Initiative, Process

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• I never make a movie for awards consideration. I will use the hope of getting an Academy Award a) to honor the people who work so hard and also b) it's the greatest Good Housekeeping seal in the world. It's the greatest brand. It's as good as Louis Vuitton and Dior in the world of moviemaking. It's the Super Bowl.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Awards, People, Honor

  "Oscar Nominees Lunch With Academy, Party at THR Event as Final Voting Approaches" by Scott Feinberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 03, 2015.

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• Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe. There's no place that we know about that can support life as we know it, not even our sister planet, Mars, where we might set up housekeeping someday, but at great effort and trouble we have to recreate the things we take for granted here.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ecosystems, Support, Effort

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• Hispanics still have the highest rate amongst teens with babies so at least the future housekeeping is secure.

  Chelsea Handler

  Baby, Teens, Rate

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• Every time I fold the baby's clothes I feel like a giant that got a housekeeping job with a nice family.

  Dana Gould

  Baby, Jobs, Nice

  FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Apr 06, 2012

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• I am not so concerned with how many Rotten Tomatoes we have - although the good reviews are to be wished for, of course - but I have my hands full in the daily housekeeping of doing Maura right and being truthful to this experience.

  Jeffrey Tambor

  Hands, Tomatoes, Rotten

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• One of the worst things [Donald Trump] said was about a woman in a beauty contest. He loves beauty contests, supporting them and hanging around them. And he called this woman "Miss Piggy." Then he called her "Miss Housekeeping," because she was Latina. Donald, she has a name.

  Hillary Clinton

  Love Is, Names, Missing

  Source: time.com

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• I have been housekeeping for 31 years and I learned something new on every page!

  Deniece Schofield

  Years, Pages, Something New

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• A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. ... may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities?

  Jane Addams

  Cities, May, Corporations

  Jane Addams, Berenice A. Carroll, Clinton F. Fink (1907). “Newer Ideals of Peace”, p.101, University of Illinois Press

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• I saw a want ad. "light housekeeping." They said "Here, change this bulb." I said "I'll need some friends."

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Light

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• Housekeeping is not beautiful; it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child; neither the host nor the guest;it oppresses women. A house kept to the end of prudence is laborious without joy; a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Cheer, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.93, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• If a woman is not fit to manage the internal matters of a house, she is fit for nothing, and should never be put in a house or over a house, any way. Good housekeeping lies at he root of all the real ease and satisfaction in existence.

  Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford

  Real, Lying, Roots

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• I look upon England today as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated fromlong housekeeping, which he has not the courage to burn.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Gentleman, Looks, Today

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.42, 谷月社

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• Loneliness is more likely to lead to fussy housekeeping than to grand views of the Universe.

  Mason Cooley

  Loneliness, Views, Fussy

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• A soul mate is not necessarily someone with whom you set up housekeeping. Your soul and their soul have a multi-incarnation attraction.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Soul, Sexuality

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• My father was a general manager with Hyatt, so we lived in the hotel so he would be close by if there were any problems. My mum was always adamant about us not abusing it. So I still had to clean my room. Housekeeping would never come and do it.

  Dianna Agron

  Father, Rooms, Would Be

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• Of all hateful occupations, housekeeping is to my mind the most hateful.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Mind, Occupation, Hateful

  Hannah Whitall Smith (1950). “Philadelphia Quaker: the letters of Hannah Whitall Smith”

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