Best modern & home Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

People Years Home School Past Three Gone Generations Modern Ready Cooks Meals Relevant Modern Life Over The Past Home Life Three Generations Processed Food Takeaways

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.”

World Wells Facts Home Social Technology Modern Media Messages Simplicity Social Media Checks 80s Iphone Texting Smartphones Modern 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!”

“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.”

Men Children Stills Two Ends Country Home Jobs Can Do Modern Men And Women Raised Two 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.”

Art Home Christian Together Culture Known Modern Century Areas Harmony Islam Jew Peaceful Posts Remarkable Relative Spain Flowering Confluence

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.”

Book Use Home Law Worry Modern Reader Empty Have Faith Volume Depressing Shelves Librarian Stay 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.”

Men World Home Earth Liberty Modern Worst Adventure Truth Is Tasks Notion Experiments Spots Variety Dull Routine Arrangements Indulge Whim Indulge In Decorum Domesticity Wild 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.”

Art Whole Home Values Creative Modern Supreme Subordinates Modern Art Creative 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.”

Home Views Modern Garden Lovely Hotel Pool Fabulous Prestige

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.”

Thinking Men Home Waiting Women Modern Independent Sexy Coming Home Housewife Modern Society Independent Women Slippers Being 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.”

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Author:Arlene Dahl

“The art world is the biggest joke going. It's a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace - never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.”

People World Littles Long Art Home Used Stuff Taken Modern Jokes Art Is Weak Disgrace Pretentious Art World Modern Art

Author:Banksy

“We tend to think of divorced or complicated families as a modern invention, and that is not at all true. You only have to read the Greek myths to see broken homes, widows, divorce, stepchildren, children trying to get along with new parents.”

Thinking Trying Children Home Parent Modern Broken Complicated Divorce Myth Invention Greek Divorced Widows True You Greek Myth Broken Homes New Parents Stepchild Stepchildren

Author:Rick Riordan

“Sending grown-ups up the wall is one of the things adolescence is all about. A few years ago it was done with rock 'n' roll music. Now at least they can do it quietly with a home computer.”

Years Done Home Can Do Modern Rocks Wall Computer Years Ago Rock N Roll Adolescence Modern Life Rock N Roll Music

Author:Russell Baker

“What about the poor salesman who is calling into the office from the corner saloon instead of the home sickbed he claims he is in?”

Home Poor Modern Calling Office Claims Corners Modern Life Salesman Saloons

Author:Malcolm Forbes

“Singles hitters drive Fords. Home-run hitters drive Cadillacs.”

Home Running Modern Modern Life Home Run Singles Cadillacs

Author:Pete Rose

“Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.”

People Home Clear Pieces Modern New York Thousand Travel Hundred Prison Eight Preserves Abandon Museums Towers Boston Soap Whiskey Posters Pittsburgh

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle.”

Stills Matter Home Seems Political Father Modern Politician Candidates Castles

Author:Rose Kennedy

“In this age of space flight, when we use the modern tools of science to advance into new regions of human activity, the Bible... remains in every way an up-to-date book. Our knowledge and use of the laws of nature that enable us to fly to the Moon also enable us to destroy our home planet with the atom bomb. Science itself does not address the question whether we should use the power at our disposal for good or for evil. The guidelines of what we ought to do are furnished in the moral law of God.”

“We think that we have to do so many things and it's unfortunate, entire modern society is besotted with the do-ables, we have to do this, we have to have a half-hour of yoga, an hour of meditation, 2 hours of this, and then 12 hours of work and non-stop electronic gadgets, gizmos etc. etc., and then go home and take care of the family, and then take the children to wherever, and what tends to happen is we do way too much. The society does way too much. One of the greatest things in healing is try for just one day to do nothing. Very difficult.”

“I [...] vowed that rather than let Alzheimer's take me, I would take it. I would live my life as ever to the full and die, before the disease mounted its last attack, in my own home, in a chair on the lawn, with a brandy in my hand to wash down whatever modern version of the "Brompton cocktail" some helpful medic could supply. And with Thomas Tallis on my iPod, I would shake hands with Death.”

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Author:Terry Pratchett

“The modern challenge to motherhood is the eternal challenge--that of being a godly woman. The very phrase sounds strange in our ears. We never hear it now. We hear about every other type of women: beautiful women, smart women, sophisticated women, career women, talented women, divorced women. But so seldom to we hear of a godly woman--or of a godly man either, for that matter. I believe women come nearer to fulfilling their God-given function in the home than anywhere else.”

“The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer or bludgeon. She reads on planes to picket the antiseptic nature of modern travel, on commuter trains to insist on individualism in the midst of the herd, in hotel rooms to boycott the circumstances that separate her from her usual sources of comfort and stimulation, during office breaks to escape from the banal conversation of office mates, and at home to revolt against the pervasive and mind-deadening irrelevance of television.”

“I have always wanted to make a film about my parents' generation, which tried every way to escape from the deadly shadow of war and finally settled down in Hong Kong in the '50s to build a home from nothing. Arguably, they are the first generation of Hong Kong people to turn this remote island into a modern city.”

People Way Firsts War Home Wanted Film Turns Parent Cities Generations Modern Shadow Islands Hong Kong

Author:Mabel Cheung

“We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now there is a mighty theme for a mighty book but a challenge to which no modern novelist or poet has yet responded. Where is our Melville, our Milton, our Thomas Mann when we need him most?”

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Author:Edward Abbey

“Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man's quest for wealth and an easy life they have been ruthlessly suppressed and exploited, degraded into slavery. The modern prejudice against Negroes is the result of the desire to maintain this unworthy condition.”

Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

“Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“The pleasure in traveling consists of the obstacles, the fatigue, and even the danger. What charm can anyone find in an excursion when he is always sure of reaching his destination, of having horses ready waiting for him, a soft bed, an excellent supper, and all the eases and comfort he can enjoy in his own home! One of the great misfortunes of modern life is the want of any sudden surprise, and the absence of all adventure. Everything is so well arranged.”

“Before modern man can gain control over the forces that now threaten his very existence, he must resume possession of himself. This sets the chief mission for the city of the future: that of creating a visible regional and civic structure, designed to make man at home with his deeper self and his larger world, attached to images of human nature and love.”

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Author:Lewis Mumford

“You don't have to paint your walls lime green just to try to have your home feel decorated. If you're a classic dresser or preppy dresser or a modern dresser, you wear a lot of black - whatever it is - your home should reflect that as well.”

Ifs Feels Should Trying Wells Home Black Modern Wall Green Paint Classic Limes Dressers Your Wall Preppy Lime Green

Author:Nate Berkus

“Essential to our personal faith and development is the unmistakable knowledge that our Father and our Savior want us to succeed. They want us to return to Their presence. Because of Their love for us, They have given us resources to obtain comfort, direction, and strength for our journey home. I speak of prayer, the wonderful and sublime ability to communicate and share our concerns with the Father; the Holy Spirit, which will enlighten and comfort us; and the words of the prophets, both ancient and modern. These resources give us understanding and direction in dealing with our challenges.”

“The romantics were reacting against a modern culture that divided individuals from themselves (through specialisation in the division of labor), from others (the competitive market place) and from nature, which had been reduced down to a machine through technology. The antidote to such division is unity and wholeness, which means feeling at home again in the world.”

World Mean Feelings Home Culture Individual Technology Modern Labor Machines Unity Division Divided Wholeness Antidote Reacting Modern Culture Division Of Labor

Author:Frederick C. Beiser

“I would want to create an amphitheater outside of California where I would play everyday, and then people would have to come to me. I would create all this crazy stage decor and film it. Or I would just stay inside my home and do films. I would be like the modern Maya Deren.”

People Want Play Home Would Be Film Crazy Modern Stage Everyday California Decor

Author:Lykke Li

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