“When I was a kid if I was unhappy, I'd stroke my dog. I was into bringing injured birds into the house, RSPCA activities. And the relationship that you have with animals, you can get that from your children: that unquestioning love and adoration and equal need.” IfsNeedsChildrenKidsHouseAnimalDogActivityEqualBirdOur ChildrenUnhappyYour ChildrenStrokesMy DogInjuredAdoration Author:Steve McFadden
“Labor, like Israel, has many sorrows. Its women weep for their fallen and they lament for the future of the children of the race. It ill behooves one who has supped at labor's table and who has been sheltered in labor's house to curse with equal fervor and fine impartiality both labor and its adversaries when they become locked in deadly embrace.” ChildrenHas BeensHouseRaceFineSorrowEqualLaborTablesEmbraceIllIsraelCurseFallenLockedAdversariesLamentFervorImpartiality Author:John L. Lewis
“Lycurgus being asked why he, who in other respects appeared to be so zealous for the equal rights of men, did not make his government democratical rather than oligarchical, "Go you," replied the legislator, "and try a democracy in your own house.” MenTryingGovernmentHouseDemocracyRightsEqualEqual RightsLegislatorsZealous Author:Plutarch
“Unfortunately, our [american] workplace rules are stuck in the seventies, when, out of a block of 10 houses, in more than half of them the husband went to work and the wife stayed home. Now on that same block almost eight of the wives work. That's one reason why I want equal pay for equal work, and why affordable day care, early childhood education, and universal pre-K are so important to me.” WantImportantReasonHomeCareHousePayHalfWifeChildhoodHusbandEqualUniversalEightStuckBlockReason WhyWorkplaceSeventiesAffordableEarly ChildhoodEqual PayEarly Childhood EducationDay Care Author:Kirsten Gillibrand
“My greatest disappointment in all the projects I worked on during the White House years was the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment to be ratified. ... Why all the controversy and why such difficulty in giving women the protection of the Constitution that should have been theirs long ago?” GivingShouldYearsLongHas BeensHouseWhiteRightsEqualProjectsShould HaveConstitutionDifficultyDisappointmentProtectionWhite HouseAmendmentsLong AgoWomens RightsControversyEqual RightsShould Have BeenEqual Rights Amendment Author:Rosalynn Carter
“If you want to be equal with me, you can get your own Rolls-Royce, your own house and your own million dollars.” IfsWantHouseMoneyMillionsEqualDollarsMillion DollarsRolls Royce Author:Muhammad Ali
“By happy fraternity amongst themselves, the embodied beings get the supreme peace. Then all this earth shines like one house. When the men, the embodied beings treat each other with equal respect and have good brotherly feelings amongst themselves, great peace and harmony abound. Then all this earth shines like one house. The whole world shines like the one dwelling house of the entire human family.” MenWorldHumansWholeFeelingsEarthHouseHe ManEqualTreatsHarmonyShiningSupremeWhole WorldDwellingFraternityPeace And HarmonyHuman FamilyBrotherlyEqual Respect Author:Ramana Maharshi
“We have the right to rid our houses of ants; but what we have no right to do is to forget to honor the ant as God made it, out in the place where God made the ant to be. When we meet the ant on the sidewalk, we step over him. He is a creature, like ourselves; not made in the image of God, it is true, but equal with man as far as creation is concerned. The ant and the man are both creatures.” MenMadeHouseForgetStepsCreationHe ManHonorCreaturesEqualConcernedEnvironmentalMade ItStewardshipAntsSidewalkGod Image Author:Francis Schaeffer
“Like his admirer Samuel Beckett, Johnson locates his voices among conditions of such deprivation that even the most miserable memories are gilded by comparison: this paradox fuels equal parts of comedy and pathos. Never sentimental, at once corrosive and elegiac, House Mother Normal is a remarkable achievement.” MotherHouseVoiceMemoriesComedyConditionsEqualNormalAchievementMiserableFuelRemarkableComparisonParadoxSentimentalJohnsonDeprivationAdmirerPathosBeckettGilded Author:James Marcus
“I was booked into the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas with three other comedians. We all were using the Riviera in-house shampoo, so we all had equal shine and bounce.” HumorFunnyThreeHouseEqualShiningComedianHotelVegasLas VegasBounceShampoo Author:Mitch Hedberg
“Familiarity breeds attempt. Time wounds all heels. I went down on the Lower East Side today and saw all those Old Testament houses. We're all cremated equal. We're insufferable friends. I've been working my head to the bone.” TodayHouseSidesSawsEqualBonesEastWoundsHeelsTestamentFamiliarityOld TestamentInsufferableEast Side Author:Goodman Ace
“When I have children that go home and mom and dad are not home because they're working, they're trying to get food on the table, and they come home to an empty house and they go to sleep in an empty house, there is no way that child can compete against a child from the west side of Los Angeles who both parents went to Stanford. Well, good for them, God love them. That's not an equal playing field.” WayTryingWellsChildrenHomeHouseParentSidesSleepFieldsMomDadEqualEmptyTablesWestGod LoveLos AngelesComing HomeGoing To SleepMom And DadPlaying FieldsStanfordWest SideEmpty Houses Author:Rafe Esquith
“Unemployment in the sense of distress is widely disappearing. . . . We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poor-house is vanishing from among us. We have not yet reached the goal, but given a change to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, and we shall soon with he help of God be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation. There is no guarantee against poverty equal to a job for every man. That is the primary purpose of the economic policies we advocate” MenYearsHelpingTodayJobsLastsAmericaPurposeHouseGivenNationsGoalPoorPovertyEconomicLandPolicyEqualSightFinalsEightDisappearEvery ManPrimariesTriumphGuaranteesDistressUnemploymentVanishingEconomic PolicyAmerica Today Author:Herbert Hoover
“A poor man cannot rival the rich in luxury of life, but he can in luxury of knowledge. He cannot furnish his house as the wealthy can, but he can furnish his head. He cannot found a house of note, but he may found a mind of mark. Though some kingdoms may be adorned or afflicted with kings, learning has always been a republic, where all are equal who know.” KnowsMenMindMayFoundHousePoorRichKingsEqualMarkNotesKingdomsLuxuryWealthyRepublicRivalsPoor Man Author:George Holyoake
“So much of my work is defined by the difference between the figure in the foreground and the background. Very early in my career, I asked myself, "What is that difference?" I started looking at the way that a figure in the foreground works in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European paintings and saw how much has to do with what the figure owns or possesses. I wanted to break away from that sense in which there's the house, the wife, and the cattle, all depicted in equal measure behind the sitter.” WayWantedHouseDifferencesBehindsCareersBreakSawsWifeCenturyFiguresPaintingEqualBackgroundsDefinedNineteenth CenturyCattleForeground Author:Kehinde Wiley
“It's the people who work hard and earn big that keep the machine tipping for everybody else. If everybody else was equal down the bottom rung of a ladder, nobody would be on the ladder at all because it would break and everybody would fall off backwards. So you need people at the top to help pull those people up from the bottom. You can't take that and swing to the right. You can't have everybody living in the same ordinary $60,000 house because you may as well live in Russia, Bulgaria or some other Eastern block Communist nation.” PeopleIfsNeedsWellsMayHardHelpingBigsWould BeFallHouseNationsBreakHard WorkEqualOrdinaryMachinesBottomRussiaBlockCommunistSwingsBackwardsEasternLaddersTippingBulgaria Author:Robin Leach
“The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.” DreamHouseBlackWhiteEqualWhite HouseBlack Family Author:Al Sharpton
“I drive him to school, then I break back into Barron's house. I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen. Then I go home and shave until my skin is as slick as any slickster's.” KindHomeSchoolValuesHouseBehindsBreakEqualSkinsThievesStolenItemsSlick Author:Holly Black
“Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed and envy, which are just forms of selfishness. If we have little, and want for little, and we are all equal, we envy no one.” IfsWantLittlesHelpingFormHouseForgetProtectEqualClothesGreedEnvyVanitySelfishnessHairstyles Book:The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant Source: The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant