Top 222 Household Quotes

We keep a Jewish household and are raising our daughters Jewish.
Carlos Lopez-Cantera
I grew up in a very strict Pentecostal household.
Kelly Price
My parents never looked at my acting as a career. They saw it as a way to help provide for the household.
Paul Walker
Easter egg hunts and parades are nothing new to any household or city, however nobody does it better then the Big Apple.
Hilary Farr
I grew up in an environment where it was permittable to use violence to solve a problem. But it was not permittable ever to call the police under any circumstances. That was the kind of doctrine of my household. My dad was a career-long criminal, and you weren’t calling the police for any reason.
Charlie Hunnam
I have a business manager and a book-keeper who deals with our household bills. My husband and I sit down with her for a weekly report on how much money is going out, but I’m not terribly interested, and I don’t have the patience for it.
Jane Green
Disciples of Keynes, who focus on aggregate demand, view any increase in household wealth as raising employment because they say it adds to consumer demand.
Edmund Phelps
The Democratic chairman doesn’t need to be a household name. Most people didn’t know who Ron Brown was when he was chairman of the Democratic Party, but he put the party in a position where Bill Clinton could come in and he had a solid base to run from.
Susan Estrich
Our house was like a hotel. It was a loony-tunes household. If you got arrested in high school, everyone knew: ‘Call Mrs. Evans; she’ll bail you out.’
Chris Evans
My mom was a big feminist, and when I was growing up, I wasn’t allowed to have typical girl toys: she did not let me have dolls. Barbies were banned in our household. She read feminist books to me; my mom was a major feminist.
Leila Janah
The average credit score of today’s FHA borrowers is higher than the average American household with a score. As it becomes more costly and difficult to get a FHA loan, loans from private mortgage lenders will become more attractive and their market share will grow.
Mark Zandi
U.S. economic activity continues to expand, led by solid growth in household spending. But business investment remains soft, and subdued foreign demand and the appreciation of the dollar since mid-2014 continue to restrain exports.
Janet Yellen
Writing was something I have always been interested in. I’ve grown up in a household full of books, with both my parents English teachers and very booky.
Alexandra Adornetto
As the graying of the country continues its march forward, many retirees are now relocating to dense urban centers for the cultural and social opportunities, access to public transportation, and the ability to shop nearby for food and household needs without depending unduly on others.
Chuck Norris
Success starts in the household and with education.
Booker T
Before I became an orphan of the Holocaust my early family life was stable. I grew up as a German Jew in Frankfurt, and I was in a household with two loving parents and an adoring grandmother who spoiled me. My mother helped my father in their wholesale business and they went to synagogue every Friday.
Ruth Westheimer
Now, in the Liefeld household, I don’t tend to share the fact that I created Deadpool with my kids, so when all the video games started coming out where Wade was at the center of them, I couldn’t help but smile.
Rob Liefeld
With New Edition it would get to the point where kids would have their New Edition posters; say like it was in a household of sisters. Each sister would have also have an individual poster of the member of New Edition that they liked. Now that’s star power.
Big Daddy Kane
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.
Dave Mustaine
There was a group of six women in my household. My mom, aunts and grandma. I watched them in the kitchen.
George Tillman, Jr.
I have three brothers and one sister, and I’m the third child. Sometimes people say, ‘It’s only natural you would become a writer – your parents were English professors.’ But my four siblings were brought up in the exact same household, and no one else became a writer or an English professor.
Antonya Nelson
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.
Andre Leon Talley
I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.
Caroline Kennedy
I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn’t destroy books.
Lev Grossman
I grew up in a very religious household. My mom was a church organist. I was a religious kid.
Dan Brown
The typical minimum wage earner is a provider and a breadwinner – most likely a woman – responsible for paying bills, running a household and raising children.
Tom Perez
No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that’s why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting.
Emily Oster
I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household.
Mohamed ElBaradei
I probably don’t make as much money as people think I make. I make more than the usual medium household. I’m one of the few middle class actors out there. The microcosm of Hollywood reflects the macrocosm of international finance.
James Ransone
People say, ‘I love ‘Snatch,’ I love ‘Lock Stock,’ but I want to be more than a movie name. I’d love to be more of a household name.
Vinnie Jones
I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my

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.
John le Carre
It’s certainly sobering to think that British consumers waste roughly a quarter of the food we buy. Or to put it another way, we funnel £12 billion a year from the supermarket through to our rubbish tips, costing each household an average of £480.
Tristram Stuart
The Postal Service’s unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation’s infrastructure.
Joe Baca
I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
Patrick Stewart
Varese, Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, Leger, Gleizes, Severini, Villon, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Marie Laurencin, Cocteau and many others were to me household names in the literal sense – names of familiar figures around the house.
Jacques Barzun
I think women – relative to men – tend to feel that they have to do the household chores on top of everything else. This becomes even worse once you have kids. It’s enough to have a full time job; a full time job plus a family is even more.
Emily Oster
My mother was largely a housewife until she and my father were divorced. No one in the family read for pleasure – it was a very unintellectual household – but my mother did read to us when we were little, and that’s how I started to read.
Andrea Barrett
I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices.
Vint Cerf
If you look back over my life, there’s been a lot of things that have happened that I really haven’t had any control over, from my childhood to where I grew up to what went on in the household to stuff with my mother, to my daughter. The list goes on and on.
Caleb Plant
I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog.
John Pilger
I don’t mind America becoming a Third World country. The weather is better in the Third World than it is where I live in New Hampshire. And household help will be much cheaper.
P. J. O’Rourke
As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.
James Gleick
While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.
Sandra Tsing Loh
I probably wouldn’t be a songwriter if I didn’t grow up the way I did. It was difficult and it was at times very scary to grow up in a household so unsettled and at times very violent. But, it also, I guess it earned me a sort of wisdom at a young age that’s served me well.
Ray LaMontagne
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.
Andrea Jung
Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
I wasn’t raised in a household where vanity was celebrated. That just wasn’t on the top of our list.
Jennifer Garner
I grew up in a household where sweets were not given to you whenever you want. It was restricted only to special occasions.
Catherine Tresa
I did not grow up around computers, so technology was not a tool used every day in my household. I was drawn to computer science due to the creative nature of programming and the technology focus.
Kimberly Bryant
A household can never appear prosperous without a cow. How auspicious it is to wake up in the morning to the mooing of your own cow!
Munshi Premchand
And in doing this I advise you to send to the best manors of your lands those of your household in whom you place most confidence to be present in August at the leading of the corn, and to guard it as aforesaid.
Robert Grosseteste
My daughter’s position in our household is definitely higher than mine. I listen to her a lot. I guess you can say that’s my parenting style.
Zhao Wei