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“The word ‘grunge’ became a household term, and fashion runways were filled with flannel shirts and long underwear. Oh, how we laughed… Every now and then when I’m feeling a little nostalgic, I put on my ‘grunge tuxedo’ - flannel shirt, long shorts with long underwear underneath them, and a pair of Doc Martens - and dance around the house to Tad records.”

Littles Long Feelings House Term Records Fashion Filled Shirts Pairs Laughed Now And Then Household Underwear Nostalgic Shorts Runway Grunge Tuxedos Flannels

Author:Dave Grohl

“My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.”

Kids Wanted Mother Manage Household Happy Mothers Day Amazing Woman

Author:Barbara Corcoran

“I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.”

Children Age Mother Three Strong Poor Growing Up Growing Generations Brother Grew Grew Up Raised Enormous Birthday Grandmother Household My Grandmother 60th Birthday

Author:Cate Blanchett

“I grew up in a very literate, very independent household where people spoke their ideas and were very supportive of helping each other find their own way”

People Way Ideas Helping Grew Grew Up Independent Spokes Household Supportive Independent Women Helping Each Other

Author:Lucinda Williams

“My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream.”

Heart Enough Dream Fire My Heart Lonely Guests Household Chill Kindles

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a religious man and he read prayers to the assembled household every morning. But he had crossed out in pencil all the passages that praised God. He said that there was nothing so vulgar as to praise people to their faces and, himself a gentleman, he could not believe that God was so ungentlemanly as to like it.”

People Men Believe Said Country Faces Young Used Asks Belief Religious Prayer Morning Praise Ask Me Gentleman Passages Household Every Morning Vulgar Pencils Elderly

Book:Mr. Maugham Himself

Source: Mr. Maugham Himself

“Focus on your marriage. Because that's the nucleus of the home, whatever you do to restore its health and strength will naturally restore what's broken among the other relationships. If you have no children yet, this will make a comfortable nest for them to begin life well. If you have children, the changes you make in your marriage will affect the rest of the household more quickly and dramatically than you think.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Children Home Family Marriage Focus Broken Comfortable Household Nests Nucleus Health And Strength

Author:Charles R. Swindoll

“. . . this oligarchy of sex, which makes fathers, brothers, husbands and sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household - which ordains all men sovereigns, all women subjects, carries dissension, discord, and rebellion into every house of the nation.”

Men Mother Father House Nations Sex Wife Subjects Son Brother Husband Daughter Motherhood Carrie Rebellion Household Discord Oligarchy Dissension Wife And Daughter

Author:Susan B. Anthony

“Americans, more than any other culture on earth, are cookbook cooks; we learn to make our meals not from any oral tradition, but from a text. The just-wed cook brings to the new household no carefully copied collection of the family's cherished recipes, but a spanking new edition of 'Fannie Farmer' or 'The Joy of Cooking'.”

Earth Joy Culture Food Tradition Cooking Cooks Meals Collections Culinary Farmers Household Recipes Other Cultures Cookbook Spanking Oral Tradition

Author:John Thorne

“I have yet to hear anyone afflicted with the "gun control" disability dial 9-1-1 and specify, "Now please be sure to send the kind of cops who are disarmed. If you can't do that, we'd rather you not send anyone at all to stop the men who are holding my daughter at knifepoint, because in this household we don't believe that guns ever solve anything."”

Ifs Men Believe Kind He Man Please Daughter Gun Don't Believe Solve My Daughter Disability Household Cop Gun Control

Author:Vin Suprynowicz

“I think, and I mean this sincerely, I was raised humbly. We were a lower middle income family and a household that was scrimping by at times. We were watching the dollar, stretching the dollar, and coupons. It was all those things.”

Thinking Mean Middle Dollars Raised Income Household Sincerely Stretching

Author:Bryan Cranston

“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”

“The overall effect of the GEA will be to increase unit production costs, diminish competitiveness, cut the rate of return to capital in key sectors, reduce employment, and make households worse off.”

Cutting Effects Keys Return Cost Increase Rate Productions Employment Household Units Diminish Competitiveness

Author:Ross McKitrick

“But we're looking at 500 households - that's a lot of people. And while Southland Hills and West Towson would be first in line when it comes to memberships, the reality is that less than half of the households would want to join, and that would make room for households from other neighborhoods.”

People Want Firsts Reality Would Be Lines Rooms Half West Hills Neighborhood Household Membership

Author:Mike Ertel

“When I was growing up, we always had music playing in our household. I enjoy spending time with my father singing.”

Father Enjoy Growing Up Growing Singing Spending Household Spending Time

Author:Pattie Brooks

“The kitchen is the great laboratory of the household, and much of the 'weal and woe' as far as regards bodily health, depends on the nature of the preparations concocted within its walls.”

Food Wall Depends Regard Preparation Kitchen Household Woe Laboratory

Author:Isabella Beeton

“For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a state.”

Humans Real Matter States Political Evil Differences Animal Views Common Perception Etc Good And Evil Household Unjust

Book:A New Aristotle reader

Source: A New Aristotle reader

“Banks and other providers of credit to households have been competing vigorously to expand or protect their market share. In the process, lending standards have been progressively eroded so that lenders are now engaging in practices that would have been regarded as out of the question five or ten years ago.”

Years Has Beens Process Practice Five Share Protect Ten Standards Years Ago Competition Credit Household Competing Engaging Lending Providers Lenders

Author:Ian Macfarlane

“.. the word ecology, coined by the German biologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel (initially as oecology) in 1866. derives from the Greek oikos, "referring originally to the family household and its daily operations and maintenance." The term ecology is therefore intended to refer to the study of the conditions of existence that pertain to, and the interactions between, all the entities that make up our larger, cosmic household here upon earth.”

Earth Term Existence Study Conditions Philosopher Operations Greek Cosmic Interaction Household Entity Ecology Maintenance Referring Biologist Deep Ecology

Author:Warwick Fox

“Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12.”

Children Age Half Four Violence Female Victim Lifetime Household Domestic Violence

Author:Lucille Roybal-Allard

“It's still hard for me to talk about the day I visited a shelter for children who were victims of a domestic-violence household. The kinds of abuse they had suffered, and what it had done to them physically and emotionally ?- I don't have words for what I saw. This has to stop.”

Kind Children Stills Hard Done Saws Violence Abuse Victim Household Shelter Domestic Violence

Author:Michael Dean Crapo

“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.”

Knows Happens Age Young One Thing Grew Grew Up Mouths Towns Gossip Farms Household Small Town Young Age

Author:Garrett Hedlund

“I grew up in a Caribbean family household, so the parents are always right. My father smacked me up til I was 20. It was a strict household.”

Father Parent Grew Grew Up Household Strict Caribbean

Author:Wyclef Jean

“The heart is the household divinity which, discharging its function, nourishes, cherishes, quickens the whole body, and is indeed the foundation of life, the source of all action.”

Heart Whole Body Action Source Function Foundation Divinity Cherish Household

Book:The works of William Harvey, M.D.

Source: The works of William Harvey, M.D.

“Why do some persons 'find' God in a way that others do not? Why does God manifest His Presence to some and let multitudes of others struggle along in the half-light of imperfect Christian experience? Of course the will of God is the same for all. He has no favorites within His household. All He has ever done for any of His children He will do for all of His children. The difference lies not with God but with us.”

Way Children Persons Doe Done Light Christian Lying Courses Differences Half Struggle Gods Will Manifest Imperfect Household Multitudes Others Struggles

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“A household name is like ketchup. Everybody wants ketchup. Ketchup doesn't hurt anybody.”

Want Names Hurt Household Ketchup

Author:Louis C. K.

“How many times should you forgive your household bruiser? You should not even think about forgiving him. Not yet. Not as long as he has his foot on your neck. Your problem at this point is not forgiving. Your problem is how to get out of his reach. Once you get away from him, you can think about forgiving him.”

Thinking Should Long Problem Feet Forgiveness Forgiving Necks Get Away Household Not Forgiving

Author:Lewis B. Smedes

“This is a government which is proposing to put at risk our manufacturing industry, to penalise struggling families, to make a tough situation worse for millions of households right around Australia. And for what? To make not a scrap of difference to the environment any time in the next 1000 years.”

Years Government Next Differences Situation Millions Struggle Environment Risk Industry Tough Australia Household Manufacturing Scrap Tough Situations

Author:Tony Abbott

“Jesus came down in flesh and solved both of them. So for me, my household - I just think that we would all be better off if we loved God and loved each other. At the end of the day you will be happy, happy, happy.”

Ifs Thinking Ends Jesus Flesh The End Of The Day Household Better Off

Author:Phil Robertson

“Germans grew reluctant to stay in communal ski lodges, fearing they might talk in their sleep. They postponed surgeries because of the lip-loosening effects of anesthetic. Dreams reflected the ambient anxiety. One German dreamed that an SA man came to his home and opened the door to his oven, which then repeated every negative remark the household had made against the government.”

Men Made Home Dream Government Might Fear Sleep Doors Effects Grew Anxiety Negative Lips Household Surgery Remarks Reluctant Skis Ovens Lodges Ambient Anesthetics

Author:Erik Larson

“Is this politics? I suppose I am going to have to learn all about it, if I am to run Lord Ferris's household, and throw parties and all. Now...explain to me again just who hates who, and why?”

Ifs Running Hate Party Lord Household

Book:The Privilege of the Sword

Source: The Privilege of the Sword

“Improvements in lending practices driven by information technology have enabled lenders to reach out to households with previously unrecognized borrowing capacities.”

Practice Technology Information Capacity Driven Improvement Reach Out Household Borrowing Information Technology Lending Lenders

Author:Alan Greenspan

“The truth is, no one wants to face the fact that there was a huge double standard in baseball, and white athletes like Mark McGwire, Cal Ripken Jr., and Brady Anderson were protected and coddled in a way that an outspoken Latino like me never would be. The light-eyed and white-skinned were declared household names. Canseco the Cuban was left out in the cold, where racism and double standards rule.”

“It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case.”

Literature Names Cases Remarkable Household Darfur

Author:Nicholas D. Kristof

“In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms.”

Saws Saving Firm Massive Household Savings

Author:Ron Chernow

“My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.”

Ideas Rooms Household Glances Cleaning Sweeping Housework Chores Housekeeping Clean House Household Chores House Cleaning Spring Cleaning

Author:Erma Bombeck

“My Prime Minister regards the economy as our highest priority and forgets that economics and ecology are derived from the same Greek word, oikos, meaning household or domain. Ecology is the study of home, while economics is its management. Ecologists try to define the conditions and principles that enable a species to survive and flourish. Yet in elevating the economy above those principles, we seem to think we are immune to the laws of nature. We have to put the ‘eco’ back into economics.”

“The household became the place where the consumption of wages takes place.”

Household Consumption Wages

Author:Ivan Illich

“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”

Mind Said Dream School Mother President Achieve Grew Becoming Grew Up Catholic Ministers Prime Household Prime Minister Roman Catholic Catholic School

Author:Indra Nooyi

“Homosexuals are rarely monogamous and have as many as 300 to 1,000 sexual partners over the course of a lifetime. … [T]he risk of sexual abuse in a homosexual household is much greater than in a heterosexual household.”

Courses Greater Risk Abuse Lifetime Partners Household Homosexual

Author:Bryan Fischer

“If a cow walked into this room, I'd probably walk out. I could milk it, but my dad never forced me to do a lot of chores like that, mostly because he loved doing it himself.”

Ifs Walks Rooms Dad My Dad Milk Cows Household Cleaning Chores Household Chores

Author:Stuart Appleby

“The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household.”

Eye House Names Instruments Longing Stores Department Household Coins Clerks Ailments Dismay Dismayed Department Stores

Author:William Christopher Handy

“Squeezed for money, the affected households often need to lower the quality of their food, which then impacts the overall development of their children.”

Needs Children Quality Development Impact Affected Household

Author:Sheikh Hasina

“I played ball for the Senators, Rangers, Indians, and Yankees in the ’70′s and ’80′s. Marvin Miller was a hero in our household during that time. The players today may not even know who he is but they have much to be grateful for to this fine man. It took me ten years to make what many players make in a couple days now. He will definitely have my vote and my wife’s as well.”

Knows Men Years Wells May Today Wife Player Fine Couple Hero Ten Vote Balls Grateful My Wife Household Be Grateful Senators Yankees Rangers Marvin

Author:Toby Harrah

“What moved me, in the first instance, to attempt a work like this, was the discomfort and suffering which I had seen brought upon men and women by household mismanagement. I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly-cooked dinners and untidy ways.”

Men Way Firsts Suffering Source Men And Women Moved Dinner Instance Household Discomfort Discontent Housewife Mismanagement

Author:Isabella Beeton

“Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?”

Women Taken Clothes Organized Household Cleaning Baskets Cleaners Housework Chores Household Chores

Author:Katharine Whitehorn

“The death of Mrs. Lincoln was a serious loss to her husband and children. Abraham's sister Sarah was only eleven years old, and the tasks and cares of the little household were altogether too heavy for her years and experience.”

Years Children Littles Care Loss Serious Husband Tasks Heavy Household Eleven Abraham Lost Friendship Lost Friend

Book:A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln: Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: a History ...

Source: A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln: Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: a History ...

“In 1985, the top five percent of the households - the wealthiest five percent - had net worth of $8 trillion - which is a lot. Today, after serial bubble after serial bubble, the top five per cent have net worth of $40 trillion. The top five percent have gained more wealth than the whole human race had created prior to 1980.”

Humans Whole Today Wealth Race Five Percent Human Race Bubbles Cents Household Serials Net Worth

Author:David Stockman

“In a household of faith, there is no need to fear or doubt. Choose to live by faith and not fear.”

Needs Doubt Live By Household

Author:Kevin W. Pearson

“America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter what color you are.”

Stills Matter America Born Color Lows Income Lifts Household Low Income

Author:Alphonso Jackson

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