“I wouldn't say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren't relevant to modern life, it's just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of school and gone through their home life without ever being shown how to cook properly.” PeopleYearsHomeSchoolPastThreeGoneGenerationsModernReadyCooksMealsRelevantModern LifeOver The PastHome LifeThree GenerationsProcessed FoodTakeaways Author:Jamie Oliver
“I would absolutely love to go back to the simplicity of the '80s, where there wasn't texting, social media, iPhones, or smartphones. I love the fact that you would go home and check your messages. I'm not well suited to the world of modern technology.” WorldWellsFactsHomeSocialTechnologyModernMediaMessagesSimplicitySocial MediaChecks80sIphoneTextingSmartphonesModern Technology Author:Matthew Rhys
“Someone has described the modern American as a person who drives a bank financed car over a bond financed highway on credit card gas to open a charge account at a department store so he can fill his savings and loan financed home with installment purchased furniture. may this also be a description of many modern professed Christians? And may this not be one reason why modern Christians have so little time to pray? Importunity combined with perfect faith in unconquerable!” MayLittlesPersonsReasonHomeChristianPrayerPerfectModernCarPrayingAccountsCreditStoresCardsSavingReason WhyDepartmentGasDescriptionFurnitureHighwaysLoanSavingsCredit CardLittle TimeDepartment StoresUnconquerable Author:Paul Billheimer
“We've demonstrated in modern countries or industrialized countries that women can do what men can do, but we have not demonstrated that men can do what women can do therefore children are still mostly raised, hugely mostly raised by women and women in industrialized modern countries end up having two jobs one outside the home and one inside the home.” MenChildrenStillsTwoEndsCountryHomeJobsCan DoModernMen And WomenRaisedTwo Jobs Author:Gloria Steinem
“From the 9th to the 15th centuries, the area which is now modern Spain was home to the greatest peaceful agglomeration of cultures ever known in the post-literate worldEven more remarkable than the flowering of art itself was the confluence of cultures that produced it: under the rule of Islam, Muslims, Jews and Christians lived and worked together in relative harmony.” ArtHomeChristianTogetherCultureKnownModernCenturyAreasHarmonyIslamJewPeacefulPostsRemarkableRelativeSpainFloweringConfluence Author:Maya Beiser
“A modern librarian, who has faith in the law that 'BOOKS ARE FOR USE,' is happy only when his readers make his shelves constantly empty. It is not the books that go out that worry him. It is the stay-at-home volumes that perplex and depress him.” BookUseHomeLawWorryModernReaderEmptyHave FaithVolumeDepressingShelvesLibrarianStay At Home Author:S. R. Ranganathan
“Of all modern notions, the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home, they say, is dead decorum and routine; outside is adventure and variety. But the truth is that the home is the only place of liberty, the only spot on earth where a man can alter arrangements suddenly, make an experiment or indulge in a whim. The home is not the one tame place in a world of adventure; it is the one wild place in a world of rules and set tasks.” MenWorldHomeEarthLibertyModernWorstAdventureTruth IsTasksNotionExperimentsSpotsVarietyDullRoutineArrangementsIndulgeWhimIndulge InDecorumDomesticityWild Places Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the whole history of art.” ArtWholeHomeValuesCreativeModernSupremeSubordinatesModern ArtCreative Power Author:Andre Malraux
“For all its prestige, its fabulous views, its indoor pool, and its lovely garden, 24 Sussex is more like an old hotel than a modern home.” HomeViewsModernGardenLovelyHotelPoolFabulousPrestige Author:Jean Chretien
“There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.” ThinkingMenHomeWaitingWomenModernIndependentSexyComing HomeHousewifeModern SocietyIndependent WomenSlippersBeing Independent Woman Author:Katerina Graham
“In the rush of complex modern living, we have a tendency to laugh at the 'bring-Papa-his-pipe-and-slippers' approach to marriage - but most men are more than a little wistful at its demise. A man dreams of home as a haven and his wife as a romantic, fragrant creature whose most important goal in life is making him comfortable.” MenLittlesImportantHomeDreamLife IsGoalLaughingWifeModernHavensCreaturesComfortableApproachComplexesTendenciesPipeLife GoalDemisePapaSlippers Author:Arlene Dahl