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To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing. -- Jill Scott
We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away. -- Plutarch
My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. -- Erma Bombeck
Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief. -- Carol Ann Duffy
I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language. -- Daniel Day-Lewis
fully half of Household miseries arise from a lack of order. -- Julia McNair Wright
For national and social disasters, for moral and financial evils, the cure begins in the Household. -- Julia McNair Wright
When I started 'First Blood,' back in 1968, I was deeply influenced by Geoffrey Household's 'Rogue Male.' -- David Morrell
Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking it's passage for some reason. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
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
Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Household life is crowded and dusty; life gone forth is wide open... Suppose I shave off my hair and beard, put on the ochre robe, and go forth from the home life into homelessness. -- Gautama Buddha
Let the man stand on his feet. Let religion cease to be occasional; and the pulses of thought that go to the borders of the universe, let them proceed from the bosom of the Household. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I often visit Maria Tatar's 'The Grimm Reader' for a cold dose of courage. Her translations come from the Brothers Grimm, whose now-famous collection of 'Kinder- und Hausmarchen' ('Children's and Household Tales') was first published in 1812. The book was not intended for young readers. -- Kate Bernheimer
The Imperial Household, as represented by the Emperor, has been praying for the welfare of the people while nurturing harmonious relationship with them. Based on the people's respect and adoration for the Emperor, the Japanese people have stayed united. That is the essence of Japan's national heritage, I believe. -- Yoshiko Sakurai
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors. -- Bette Midler
Children really brighten up a household. They never turn the lights off. -- Ralph Wycherley
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household. -- Erica Jong
The seed is a household object but at the same time it is a revolutionary symbol. -- Ai Weiwei
The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. -- C. S. Lewis
America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet. -- Dick Gregory
I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait. -- Chris Hemsworth
Living with anyone for many years takes skill. To keep peace in the household, couples learn to adapt to one another, hopefully in positive ways. -- Diane Ackerman
When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why. -- Katharine Whitehorn
For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison. -- Theodore Roosevelt
By liberating women from household work and helping to abolish professions such as domestic service, the washing machine and other household goods completely revolutionised the structure of society. -- Ha-Joon Chang
The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest and profitable. -- Robert Grosseteste
I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over. -- Will Smith
The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him. -- Crystal Eastman
My father left Nazi Germany a year after Dr. Kissinger, and so in my household he was very much an icon. He was a kind of immigrant success story, a refugee success story. -- Eugene Jarecki
It doesn't bother me that I'm not a household word on the East Coast. Baton Rouge, Raleigh, Minneapolis - I'm so popular in these cities where you've never imagined an East Coast comedian working. -- Elayne Boosler
Command that in no way there be in your household any who make strife, discord or divisions in the hostel, but all shall be of one accord, of one will as of one heart and one soul. -- Robert Grosseteste
I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it's harder for a rich man to get into Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. -- Michael Moore
I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today. -- Gerald R. Ford
The universal utilization of water power and its long-distance transmission will supply every household with cheap power and will dispense with the necessity of burning fuel. The struggle for existence being lessened, there should be development along ideal rather than material lines. -- Nikola Tesla
In the household in which I was raised, the themes were pretty simple. 'Work hard. Don't quit. Be appreciative, be thankful, be grateful, be respectful. Also, never whine, never complain. And always, for crying out loud, keep a sense of humor.' -- Michael Keaton
Women are leaders everywhere you look - from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes. -- Nancy Pelosi
Mergers are like marriages. They are the bringing together of two individuals. If you wouldn't marry someone for the 'operational efficiencies' they offer in the running of a household, then why would you combine two companies with unique cultures and identities for that reason? -- Simon Sinek
An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household... carries discord and rebellion into every home of the nation. -- Susan B. Anthony
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But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD. -- Joshua
Most of us grew up with video games in the household, either the original Nintendo in the living room or hoarding quarters for that trip to the arcade. And as time moves on, that line of nostalgia will keep moving forward where 'Frogger' gets replaced with 'Street Fighter 2' or 'Resident Evil 4.' -- Rob Manuel
I don't mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn't a writer. I grew up in a household that believed in social justice. I have always understood myself as having an obligation to stand on the side of the silenced, the oppressed, and the mistreated. -- Tayari Jones
For me, it's about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It's where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that's very important to me. -- Beyonce Knowles
I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president. -- Indra Nooyi
For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home. -- LeBron James
I was brought up in a very religious household and did a lot of praying throughout a big part of my life and always thought of God as being not only a powerful father figure and the ruler of all time and dimension but also as a friend with whom I could chat and ask questions to and get advice from. -- Paul Feig
Progress never defines its ultimate objective but thrusts its victims at once into an infinite series,' Mr. [John Crowe] Ransom said' 'Industrialism,' he declared, 'is rightfully a menial, of almost miraculous cunning, but no intelligence; it needs to be strongly governed, or it will destroy the economy of the household. Only a community of tough conservative habit can master it. -- Richard M. Weaver
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
This, after all, was the month in which families began tightening and closing and sealing; from Thanksgiving to the New Year, everybody's world contracted, day by day, into the microcosmic single festive household, each with its own rituals and obsessions, rules and dreams. You didn't feel you could call people. They didn't feel they could phone you. How does one cry for help from these seasonal prisons? -- Zadie Smith
Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up at the sky, checking if rain was in the forecast. That always set the tone for the mood in my household, whether we had rain coming in or not - we knew the crops would be good and it was going to be a good week around the Bryan household. -- Luke Bryan
Sonnymoon and Quadrants are a couple of bands that really inspire me in terms of the melodics of things and certain tones and just what feels good. It takes me back to the type of music that I grew up on in my household. We played a lot of gangsta rap, but we also played a lot of oldies, and I think that mix is part of what inspires my sound. -- Kendrick Lamar
It's tough for me to get rid of clothes. I grew up in a household with a limited budget and we really had to make our nice clothes last, and so now I'll get free pairs of shoes and this, that and the other and I'll be like, 'Oh great!'; even though it stresses me out that I don't have enough room to put them, I can't throw them away. -- Will Ferrell
Faith is hidden household capital. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I grew up in a happy household. -- Kristen Stewart
Houseless: Having paid all taxes on household goods. -- Ambrose Bierce
God is even in a single parent household. -- Karen Salmansohn
Secular music was not allowed in our household. -- Paul Brandt
My household is, in a nice way, very busy. -- Ann Brashares
Many make the household but only one the home. -- James Russell Lowell
What is gayer than believing in a household god? -- Franz Kafka
I grew up in a very strict Pentecostal household. -- Kelly Price
Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household. -- Paul Lynde
I run my household. Not all the time, well, sometimes. -- Arash
Probably not even a household name in his own house. -- Teddy Atlas
My earliest influences were things I heard in my household. -- Boz Scaggs
I think I was brought up in a respectful household. -- Tom Welling
I was one of six kids in a single-parent household. -- America Ferrera
... cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household... -- Charles Baudelaire
I'm not even a household name in my own household -- Mike Middleton
Family values stand up to injustice and power outside the household. -- Ralph Nader
Viola Davis should be a household name. So should Angela Bassett. -- Rutina Wesley
Content is king, but marketing is queen, and runs the household. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
The good thing is, we have household formation in this country. -- Warren Buffett
My father was adopted. He grew up in the Italian household. -- Louis Gossett, Jr.
I grew up in a household that was very left wing. -- Jez Butterworth
Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up. -- Judith Guest
I was brought up in a household with sir and ma'am. -- Darrell Issa
A guest of one's time and not a member of the household. -- George F. Kennan
A school morning is usually a pretty hectic time in any household. -- Tamra Davis
It's hard to have a friend when your name's a household word. -- Little Richard
In my household there is an insane amount of laughter and celebration. -- Edie Falco
In 1944 James Arthur and Minnie Susan were added to the Marx household. -- Harpo Marx
Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother. -- Beverly Jones
The household has become the place where the consumption of wages takes place -- Ivan Illich
Joy is obtaining a big, loving, caring shut-knit household in yet another town. -- George Burns
I grew up in a politically aware household: very civically-minded, good Minnesota liberals. -- Alex Pareene
Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm. -- Emily Oster
A household name is like ketchup. Everybody wants ketchup. Ketchup doesn't hurt anybody. -- Louis C. K.
I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone. -- Sally Phillips
The severe household has no fierce slaves, but it is the affectionate mother. -- Han Fei
I grew up to the sound of live music in our Brooklyn household. -- Tony Visconti
Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother. -- Beverly Jones
Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores - it's called partnership. -- Abigail Van Buren
I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith. -- Vera Farmiga
There is satisfaction in seeing one's household prosper; in being both bountiful and provident. -- Phyllis McGinley
Once it's everybody's responsibility and not just the household's we start making better investments. -- Melissa Harris-Perry
I was brought up in a clergyman's household so I am a first-class liar. -- Sybil Thorndike
I grew up in a household in which the Bible played very little role. -- Frank Moore Cross
I was brought up in a household where you stood up to be counted. -- Aminatta Forna
The most painful household accident is wearing socks and stepping on an upturned plug. -- Peter Kay
I'm really fortunate. I grew up in a wonderful household with great Irish Catholic parents. -- Tim Kaine
I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult. -- Jane Siberry
You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap. -- Vincent Schiavelli
I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs. -- Frank Langella
I can't say unfortunately but sadly - I've got babies in more than one household. -- RZA
My kids wouldn't dream of buying a newspaper - and we are a newspaper household. -- Andrew Marr
My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years. -- Nipsey Hussle
I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home. -- Christina Aguilera
By the time we complete the care for the wounded soldiers, $6 trillion, that's $50,000 per American household. -- Jill Stein
Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast. -- LeBron James
It will allow us to control all the communication needs of a household with one device. -- John C. Malone
A proper family diary with everyone's events and parties in it really helps organise the household. -- Anthea Turner
I like to joke with my wife that she's the CEO of... certainly of our household. -- Scott Pruett
In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame. -- William Shakespeare
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason. -- Moliere
Women's liberation could have not succeeded if science had not provided them with contraception and household technology. -- Max Perutz
The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred. -- Rainn Wilson
You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table. -- Adlai E. Stevenson

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