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“A couple of seats at a good picture house cost comparatively little but give a generous return in the shape of freshened minds and freedom from the worries that even the best regulated homes cannot always avoid.”

Giving Mind Littles Home House Worry Return Couple Cost Shapes Generous Seats

Author:Ivor Novello

“I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of the house and hide from the children.”

Children Two Home Three House Library British London Two Days

Author:David Nicholls

“I don't mean to presume to dictate to you in the slightest degree but why did you leave your father's house? MTo seek misfortune, was Stephen's answer.”

Mean Home Father House Answers Degrees Misfortunes Exile

Author:James Joyce

“Women's eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.”

Home Eye House Women Guests Troublesome Wanderers

Book:Works

Source: Works

“Hereditary monarchy offers numerous advantages for America. It is the only form of government able to unify a heterogeneous people. Thanks to centuries of dynastic marriage, the family tree of every royal house is an ethnic grab bag with something for everybody. We need this badly; America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home. We can't go on much longer depending upon disasters like Pearl Harbor and the Iranian hostage-taking to "bring us together.”

Source: Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye

“The time-use studies also show that employed women spend as much time as nonworking women in direct interactions with their children. Employed mothers spend as much time as those at home reading to and playing with their young children, although they do not, of course, spend as much time simply in the same room or house with the children.”

Children Use Shows Home Young Mother Courses Reading House Rooms Study Direct Interaction Employed Young Children

Author:Sandra Scarr

“Often the true hero and heroines of my books are the houses, the places, the communities where people find a home.”

People Book Home House Community Hero Heroines True Hero Heroes And Heroines

Author:Jackie French

“At home I mostly stick to online Scrabble, or chess or Risk - games I find far less addictive than the spectacular games created for consoles these days. But, whenever I get the chance I head over to my friend Kyri’s house to play his PS3.”

Play Home Games House Chance Risk My Friends Sticks Chess These Days Online Spectacular Console Scrabble

Author:Beau Willimon

“No outward doors of a man's house can in general be broken open to execute any civil process; though in criminal cases the public safety supersedes the private.”

Men Home House Process Cases Doors Broken Safety Criminals Public Safety

Book:The Student's Blackstone: Commentaries on the Laws of England, in Four Books

Source: The Student's Blackstone: Commentaries on the Laws of England, in Four Books

“Many houses were still full of light when, at the close of March 22, the people of the Círculo returned to their homes, which were gladdened with a fleeting gladness by an hour of justice - for there are still many slaves, black and white, in Puerto Rico!”

People Stills Home Light House Black Hours Justice White Slave March Black And White Fleeting Gladness Puerto Rico Rico

Author:Jose Marti

“In our young minds houses belonged to women were their special domain, not as property, but as places where all that truly mattered in life took place - the warmth and comfort of shelter, the feeding of our bodies, the nurturing of our souls. There we learned dignity, integrity of being; there we learned to have faith. The folks who made this life possible, who were our primary guides and teachers, were black women.”

Source: Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics

“The little Road says, Go; The little House says, Stay; And oh, it's bonny here at home, But I must go away.”

Littles Home House Women Going Away

Author:Josephine Preston Peabody

“An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.”

Thinking Home Eye House Gone Window Old Houses

Book:Anne of Avonlea

Source: Anne of Avonlea

“The care of a house, the conduct of a home, the management of children, the instruction and government of servants, are as deserving of scientific treatment and scientific professors and lectureships as are the care of farms, the management of manure and crops, and the raising and care of stock.”

Children Home Government Care House Management Servant Treatment Farms Professors Instruction Crops Deserving Housework Manure

Book:Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator: With Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage

Source: Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator: With Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage

“Great cycles of history began with vigorous cultures awakening to the needs of children, but collapsing with frayed family ties. Have we failed to learn lessons which Ancient China, Greece and Rome learned too late - about day care and death houses for old folks? Do we without protest accept accelerating preschool and nursing home cultures which warn ominously that the earlier you institutionalize your child, the earlier he will institutionalize you!”