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“The poodle [Rufus] ate in the dining room with the rest of the [Churchill] family. A cloth was laid for him on the Persian carpet beside the head of the household, and no one else ate until the butler had served Rufus's meal.”

Rooms Dog Meals Household Carpet Dining Persian Butlers Poodles Dining Rooms

Author:Winston Churchill

“There was a time, from 1935-1946, when teenagers and young adults danced to jazz-orientated bands. When jazz orchestras dominated pop charts and when influential clarinettists were household names. This was the swing era.”

Young Names Band Adults Jazz Young Adult Pops Eras Teenager Swings Household Orchestra Influential

Author:Scott Yanow

“I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.”

Three Boys Household Testosterone

Author:Sally Phillips

“Sometimes it seems as though not a moment has moved, but then you look up and you're already old or you already have a household of kids or you look down and see your feet are miles and miles away from the rest of you—and you realize you've grown up.”

Looks Sometimes Moments Seems Kids Realizing Feet Down And Moved Miles Look Up Household Miles Away

Author:Jacqueline Woodson

“When the study of the household (ecology) and the management of the household (economics) can be merged, and when ethics can be extended to include environmental as well as human values, then we can be optimistic about the future of humankind. Accordingly, bringing together these three ‘E's' is the ultimate holism and the great challenge for our future.”

Source: Ecology and our endangered life-support systems

“I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.”

Christian Grew Grew Up My Family Catholic Household Ukrainian

Author:Vera Farmiga

“Probably not even a household name in his own house.”

House Names Household

Author:Teddy Atlas

“Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For one that is read from start to finish, thousands are leafed through, other thousands lie motionless, others are jammed against mouseholes, thrown at rats, others are stood on, sat on, drummed on, have gingerbread baked on them or are used to light pipes.”

Writing Book Light Used Lying Reading Employment Sat Thrown Household Rats Pipe Book Reading Gingerbread

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.”

Bits Difficult Music Is Originals Climate Household Original Music

Author:Jane Siberry

“If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Would Be Football Grew Grew Up Tough Coaches Household Drills Football Coach Sergeants Drill Sergeant

Author:Brett Favre

“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.”

People Believe Has Beens I Believe United Praying Essence Welfare Japan Heritage Household Adoration Emperor Nurturing Harmonious Harmonious Relationship

Author:Yoshiko Sakurai

“The greatest percentage of poverty is found in female-headed households. Over 70 percent of female-headed households are poor. A large percentage of poor people are children (17 percent); fully 85 percent of black children living in poverty reside in a female-headed household.”

People Children Found Black Poor Poverty Percent Female Household Poor People Percentages

Author:Walter E. Williams

“Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.”

Ifs Thinking Men Want Children Ideas Black Active African American Motive Household Participation Ulterior Motive Active Participation

Author:Gabrielle

“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.”

Bigs Asks Father Religious Powerful Advice Figures Praying All Time Dimensions Rulers Household Father Figure

Author:Paul Feig

“The [Elian] raid... was almost worth it, if only to watch Jesse Jackson...defending an armed pre-dawn raid by the US government on a minority household.”

Ifs Government Politics Watches Dawn Minorities Household Worth It

Author:Rich Galen

“Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place, indeed.”

World Light Night Dark Doors Century Amount Enjoyed Household Refrigerators Dark Places 18th Century

Author:Bill Bryson

“The history of humanity is not the history of its wars, but the history of its households.”

War Humanity History Household

Author:John Ruskin

“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.”

I Can Enough Lasts Rooms Nice Grew Clothes Grew Up Tough Stress Shoes Budgets Pairs Household Pair Of Shoes Nice Clothes

Author:Will Ferrell

“Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to command their respect, the result is an orderly happy household. If he is too tyrannical, they give notice; if he lacks authority, they become slovenly, impertinent, drunk and dishonest.”

Ifs Giving Art Enough Form Poetry Winning Results Masters Authority Fairs Affection Command Drunk Firm Servant Etc Household Rhyme Meter Orderly

Author:W. H. Auden

“Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard.”

Parent Pleasure Generations Special Household Pedestal Cupboards

Book:The Victorian Age

Source: The Victorian Age

“Nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.”

Found Marriage Study Husband Household Good Work Paradise Lost Book 9

Author:John Milton

“One of the most visible effects of a child's presence in the household is to turn the worthy parents into complete idiots when, without him, they would perhaps have remained mere imbeciles.”

Children Turns Parent Effects Mere Worthy Idiot Visible Household Imbeciles

Author:Georges Courteline

“Both ardent lovers and austere scholars, when once they come to the years of discretion, love cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household, who like them are sensitive to the cold, and sedentary.”

Years Strong Pride Cold Lovers Cat Gentle Sensitive Scholar Household Discretion Ardent Sedentary

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.”

Heart Used Television Instruments Used To Be Household Doomed Kettles

Book:Bruissement de la Langue

Source: Bruissement de la Langue

“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.”

Men Whole Spirit Faith Speak Common Computer Legends Household Predictions Probability Ambiguity Loopholes Discrepancies

Book:The Left Hand of Darkness

Source: The Left Hand of Darkness

“The most painful household accident is wearing socks and stepping on an upturned plug.”

Painful Accidents Household Sock Plugs

Author:Peter Kay

“Kids need a happy household. They need to be loved and supported in their dreams. And I don't think you can make your kids' dreams your own. They need you to support them in their dreams.”

Thinking Needs Dream Kids Support Household Need You

Author:Billy Crystal

“I grew up in the East End of London, the youngest of three boys in a Catholic household. Both my parents were market traders and worked seven days a week.”

Ends Three Parent Boys Week Grew Grew Up Catholic Seven East London Household Traders Seven Days

Author:James Herbert

“The most important role models in people's lives, it seems, aren't superstars or household names. They're "everyday" people who quietly set examples for you-coaches, teachers, parents. People about whom you say to yourself, perhaps not even consciously, "I want to be like that."”

People Want Important Seems Names Parent Roles Teacher Example Models Everyday Coaches Role Models Household Superstar Ruts Being A Role Model

Author:Tim Foley

“If people read 'Tomorrow' and feel that it is offering them some view of my own household, they would be very, very wrong.”

People Ifs Feels Would Be My Own Views Tomorrow Offering Household

Author:Graham Swift

“My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad.”

Two Young Parent Mom Dad My Mom Household Divorced Contentious

Author:Matt Damon

“But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos.”

Knows Dad Chaos Caring Household Mum Chaotic Mum And Dad

Author:Dave Eggers

“If you knew my wife, you'd be like, "Yeah, you're very married." She runs the household. I refer to her as "the greatest director I've ever worked with."”

Ifs Running Wife Directors Married Yeah My Wife Household

Author:Max Greenfield

“One feels very blessed to be born into a family like the Birla family, which is a household name in India, which stands for tradition, is yet contemporary, stands for trust.”

Feels Names Born Tradition India Blessed Contemporary Household

Author:Kumar Mangalam Birla

“People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope.”

People Children Running Today School Mother Thirds Wake Up Household Chile

Author:Michelle Bachelet

“Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.”

Needs Real America Pay Half Taxes Income Reform Zero Household Income Tax Tax Reform

Author:John Cornyn

“I grew up in Winnipeg, in the Canadian midwest, the fifth child. It was a great household to grow up in - I was loved to sweet death.”

Children Grows Growing Up Sweet Grew Grew Up Household Fifth Midwest Winnipeg Sweet Death

Author:Len Cariou

“Many of our problems are home-grown. Gordon Brown regularly advised the rest of the world to follow his British model of growth. But the model was flawed. It led to the highest level of household debt in relation to income in the world.”

World Problem Home Growth Levels Highest Models Relation British Debt Income Brown Household Flawed

Author:Vince Cable

“I grew up in a crazy, gypsy-like household of actors, dancers and loony Broadway people. It was their way of life, and I didn't know anything else.”

People Knows Way Actors Crazy Grew Grew Up Dancer Household Broadway Gypsy

Author:James Badge Dale

“I grew up in a household that was a labor household. My dad was a Teamster and a milk truck driver. My mother was a secretary. Neither of them got through high school. But they worked hard and they gave me very, very important opportunities to go to school, get a good education.”

Important Hard School Mother Opportunity Grew Dad Grew Up High School Labor My Dad Drivers Milk Household Secretary Truck Good Education Truck Driver

Author:Dick Gephardt

“I think a lot of people think I was born in a blue suit, on the David Brinkley show. And that isn't me. I am much more that kid who grew up in South St. Louis, in a very modest household, with a simple background with parents who didn't get through high school.”

People Thinking Shows Kids School Parent Born Simple Grew Grew Up High School Blue South Backgrounds Suits Household Modest

Author:Dick Gephardt

“Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about. I always woke up before the plane landed.”

Bigs Talking Growing Up Growing My Family England Tired British Flying Planes Household Visiting

Author:Alan Bradley

“My household is, in a nice way, very busy.”

Way Nice Busy Household Being Busy

Author:Ann Brashares

“I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.”

Happens Difficult Duty Difficulty Performing Household Resent Chores Household Chores

Author:Kay Boyle

“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.”

“In my household there is an insane amount of laughter and celebration.”

Amount Laughter Insane Celebration Household

Author:Edie Falco

“I support myself. My wife and I together - it's all our household. I'm really proud of that.”

Together Support Wife Proud My Wife Household

Author:Armie Hammer

“My goal is to be a household name, and when I do that, I want to help other girls become models, and maybe even launch a fashion line with my mom, like Beyonce did with her mother. My mom has such a good eye, and it's always been a dream of hers.”

Want Helping Dream Eye Mother Girl Names Goal Lines Fashion Mom Models My Mom Helping Others Household Other Girl Beyonce

Author:Chanel Iman

“I was brought up in a household with sir and ma'am.”

Household

Author:Darrell Issa

“I think the economic empowerment of women that has been growing over the past decade is at the 'inflection point' with this global recession. Women are, we believe, the solution for their families in their ability to go out and increase household income.”

Thinking Believe Has Beens Past Ability Growing Economic Solutions Empowerment Increase Decades Income Household Over The Past Recessions Economic Empowerment

Author:Andrea Jung

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