Household Quotes

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

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

The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.

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.

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.

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

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

I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?

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

Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers.

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.

I grew up in a happy household.

Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest and profitable.

I grew up in a household without a lot of problems and they have been very supportive from day one.

Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words.

I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog.

Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.

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.

What Governor Romney is proposing is an across-the-board cut in marginal tax rates for households, every household in America by 20 percent. And we'll have to broaden the base to pay for that. Also, a very deep cut in the corporate rate.

Command that in no way there be in your household any who make strife, discord or divisions in the hostel, but all shall be of one accord, of one will as of one heart and one soul.

He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.

Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.

My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.

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.

The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.

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.

When a man does a household job, he goes through three periods: contemplating how it will be done; contemplating when it will be done; and contemplating.

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.

The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.