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“When you're your parents' one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the best clothes and eat all the best foods - at least relative to children in multiple-sibling households. But you also wind up with an overweening sense of your own importance.”

May Children School Parent Wind Clothes Shots Importance Legacy Relative Household Multiple Sibling All The Best Best Food Best School

Author:Jeffrey Kluger

“For me, it's about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It's where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that's very important to me.”

People Way Feels Doe Important Religious My Family Treats Household

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.”

Home Grew Grew Up Household Lungs

Author:Frank Langella

“I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.”

Wells Country Language Parent Structure Sentences Driven Bless Balanced Household English Language Syntax Custodians Finesse Sentence Structure

Author:Daniel Day-Lewis

“One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.”

Home School Lines Half Class Boys Gone Streets Middle Fronts Privilege London Middle Class Household Dichotomy Good Boy

Author:Daniel Day-Lewis

“Models now need to promote themselves, think like businesswomen and diversify their careers by doing other things. Chances are very slim that a mere model will become a household name today.”

Thinking Needs Today Names Chance Careers Models Mere Household Chances Are Slim

Author:Tyra Banks

“Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household.”

Comedy Conversation Constant Household Topics

Author:Paul Lynde

“My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.”

Ideas Household Cleaning Housework Chores Housekeeping Clean House Superwoman Household Chores Super Woman

Author:Bette Midler

“When people come up to me and say, 'You made it,' I think, 'But I'm not done yet. Not everyone's heard my music.' I want to be a household name.”

People Thinking Want Made Done Names Heard Come Up Made It Household

Author:Mandy Moore

“I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it's harder for a rich man to get into Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.”

Men Believe Stills Eye Heaven Rich Lessons Harder Catholic Raised Household Needles Rich Man Through The Eyes Camels I Still Believe Roman Catholic

Author:Michael Moore

“My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.”

Men Made Bigs Young Differences Growing Up Growing Mom Dad My Mom Household Divorced Mom And Dad

Author:Dave Mustaine

“Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in remortgaging and the growth of 0% balance transfer credit cards. By 2008 the UK had the highest ratio of household debt to GDP of any major economy.”

“Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.”

Inspirational Humans Self Possibility Household Cleaning Housework Chores Self Actualization Actualization Clean House Household Chores

Book:Woman's work: the housewife, past and present

Source: Woman's work: the housewife, past and present

“I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.”

Want Jobs Asks President Simple Pay Millions Economy Higher Taxes Fairs Bills Clinton Rate Income Reform Code Boots Household Millionaire Surplus New Job

Author:Barack Obama

“If you have debt I'm willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too.”

Ifs Problem Willing Debt Household Cleaning Clutter

Author:Suze Orman

“We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.”

Life Use Nature Ought Creatures Treats Shoes Belonging Household Worn Living Creatures

Author:Plutarch

“It's hard to have a friend when your name's a household word.”

Hard Names Household

Author:Little Richard

“For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.”

Ifs Wells Children Form Interest Loses Achievement Importance Enjoyment Comparison Household

Book:Bully!

Source: Bully!

“Most people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way - not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back.”

People Way Children Care Couple Responsible Fundamentals Assuming Assumption Household Child Care

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap.”

Bigs Actors Grows Growing Up Becoming Leap Household Sicilian

Author:Vincent Schiavelli

“To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.”

Home Powerful Queens Household

Author:Jill Scott

“I was reared in a Jehovah's Witness household. I was taught that every man should be judged by his deeds and not his color, and I firmly stand where my grandmother left me.”

Men Should Left Taught Color Deeds Every Man Witness Grandmother Judged Household My Grandmother Jehovah

Author:Jill Scott

“I would say for every successful black woman in America or in the world, really, it's difficult to be the head of the household, financially. It is for the man in your life. It can be very hard for them. And there's a delicate balance. I'm not quite sure I know what that balance is just yet.”

Knows Men World Hard America Difficult Black Successful Balance Delicate Household Black Women

Author:Jill Scott

“Mergers are like marriages. They are the bringing together of two individuals. If you wouldn't marry someone for the 'operational efficiencies' they offer in the running of a household, then why would you combine two companies with unique cultures and identities for that reason?”

Ifs Two Reason Running Together Culture Individual Company Identity Offers Unique Household Efficiency Mergers

Author:Simon Sinek

“With the right support, a child growing up in a dysfunctional household, who was destined for a lifetime on benefits could be put on an entirely different track - one which sees them move into fulfilling and sustainable work. In doing so, they will pull themselves out of poverty.”

Children Different Moving Poverty Support Growing Up Growing Benefits Lifetime Track Household Fulfilling Destined Children Growing Up Growing Children

Author:Iain Duncan Smith

“I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.”

Grew Grew Up Towns London Miles Household Small Town

Author:Jacqueline Bisset

“I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over.”

Girl Church Catholic Raised Crush Neighborhood Household Catholic Church Baptists

Author:Will Smith

“You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.”

Knows Beats Tables Kitchen Bottles Household Commodity Kitchen Table Ketchup

Author:Adlai E. Stevenson

“I grew up in a happy household.”

Grew Grew Up Household

Author:Kristen Stewart

“Households and businesses cut expenses every day. Passing a financial down payment alongside the debt limit sends the right message to the public, and gives members of Congress greater comfort, or cover, depending on your perspective.”

Giving Greater Cutting Perspective Comfort Limits Members Messages Financial Congress Debt Passing Passings Expenses Household Payment

Author:John Sununu

“Look at 'American Idol,' which I don't look at. Those winners haven't become household names except for Jennifer Hudson, and she was a reject. You can't aim to be a household name. You just have to be successful.”

Looks Names Successful Havens Aim Winner Being Successful Rejects Idols Household Jennifer American Idol Rejects You

Author:Andre Leon Talley

“They both go together; you can't be in front of the camera hosting a fitness television show in front of 75 million households and not have trained 6 days per week year round - in a bikini no less.”

Years Shows Together Millions Week Fronts Television Cameras Rounds Household Television Shows Bikinis

Author:Kiana Tom

“During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.”

World War Home School Christianity War Of The Worlds Household Second World War

Author:Lionel Blue

“My parents never looked at my acting as a career. They saw it as a way to help provide for the household.”

Way Helping Parent Acting Careers Saws Household

Author:Paul Walker

“I think I was brought up in a respectful household.”

Thinking Household Respectful

Author:Tom Welling

“My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.”

Firsts Mother Family Mom Bed Parenting Household Hitting Housework Chores Clean House Bunk Household Chores House Cleaning Spring Cleaning Bunk Beds

Book:I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression

Source: I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression

“It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.”

Men Trying Wells Stills Jobs Responsibility Share Feminism Modern Paid Spite Household Taking Responsibility Chores Unselfish

Author:A. N. Wilson

“It doesn't bother me that I'm not a household word on the East Coast. Baton Rouge, Raleigh, Minneapolis - I'm so popular in these cities where you've never imagined an East Coast comedian working.”

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Author:Elayne Boosler

“I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home.”

Home Felt Chaos Stable Household

Author:Christina Aguilera

“I ended up dropping out of high school at 16 and getting kicked out of my home. My parents told me, sadly, that because I was so disruptive to the rest of the household, that I could no longer live under their roof.”

Home School Parent High School Household Roof Dropping Disruptive Dropping Out

Author:Tullian Tchividjian

“Purity in body and heart May please some--as for me, I make no boast. For, as you know, no master of a household Has all of his utensils made of gold; Some are wood, and yet they are of use.”

Knows Heart May Made Use Body Masters Please Gold Woods Purity Household Boast Canterbury Utensils Canterbury Tales

Book:The Canterbury tales

Source: The Canterbury tales

“Now, now," my father said. "Let's just get the bags." This was typical. My father, the lone male in our estrogen-heavy household, had always dealt with any kind of emotional situation or conflict by doing something concrete and specific. Discussion of cramps and heavy flow at the breakfast table? He was up and out the door to change oil on one of our cars. Coming home in tears for reasons you just didn't want to discuss? He'd go make you a grilled cheese, which he'd probably end up eating. Family crisis brewing in a public place? Bags. Get the bags.”

Source: Just Listen

“I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.”

Mother Mom Clever Household Vacuums Housework Chores Famous Women Housekeeping Sears Household Chores Spring Cleaning

Author:Roseanne Barr

“We are going to have to gather up the fragments of knowledge and responsibilities that have been turned over to governments, corporations, and specialists, and put those fragments back together again in our own minds and in our families and household and neighborhoods.”

Mind Has Beens Government Together Responsibility Corporations Our Family Neighborhood Household Fragments Back Together Specialists Together Again Back Together Again

Author:Wendell Berry

“Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.”

Source: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating

“Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.”

Made Tasks Clean Endless Torture Household Repetition Cleaning Housework Chores Housekeeping Sisyphus Clean House Household Chores

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“When you live with a woman you learn something every day. So far I have learned that long hair will clog up the shower drain befor you can say "Liquid-Plumr"; that it is not advisable to clip something out of the newspaper before your wife has read it, even if the newspaper in question is a week old; that I am the only person in our two-person household who can eat the same thing for dinner three nights in a row without pouting; and that headphones were invented to preserve spouses from each other's musical excesses.”

Source: The Time Traveler's Wife

“Two households, both alike in dignity In fair Verona, where we lay our scene From ancient grudge break to new mutiny Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents' strife.”

Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

“Sometimes it works out well, and certain household responsibilities fall naturally to those who like doing them. For example, my wife likes to pack suitcases, I like to unpack them. My wife likes to buy groceries, I like to put them away. I do. I like the handling and discovering, and the location assignments. Cans - over there. Fruit - over there. Bananas - not so fast. You go over here. When you learn not to go bad so quickly, then you can stay with the rest of your friends.”

Wells Sometimes Certain Fall Responsibility Wife Example Fruit Work Out My Wife Likes Discovering Household Packs Location Groceries Bananas Assignments Suitcases

Author:Paul Reiser

“the cracked plate has to be retained in the pantry, has to be kept in service as a household necessity. It can never be warmed on the stove nor shuffled with the other plates in the dishpan; it will not be brought out for company but it will do to hold crackers late at night or to go into the ice-box with the left overs.”

Night Left Company Late Boxes Ice Household Plates Cracked Stoves Crackers Pantry

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works