Housekeeping Quotes
Collection of top 56 famous quotes about Housekeeping
Housekeeping Quotes & Sayings
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It is a woman's business to be interested in the environment. It's an extended form of housekeeping.
— Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Being Dead means very light housekeeping
— Roger Gilbert-Lecomte
You can set up housekeeping on one side of the looking glass or the other--the side that makes big things small or small things big.
— Carrie Fisher
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.
— Phyllis Diller
A certain amount of housekeeping also goes on in my poems. I wash doorknobs, do dishes, mop floors, patch carpets, cook.
— Jane Hirshfield
My mum would like to see me on the cover of 'Good Housekeeping' demonstrating children's toys with some nice lipstick on.
— Tracey Ullman
A soul mate is not necessarily someone with whom you set up housekeeping. Your soul and their soul have a multi-incarnation attraction.
— Frederick Lenz
The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I'm very fond of experimental housekeeping.
— Jane Austen
No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
— Betty Friedan
It's a combination of science, maintenance, and general housekeeping. And then, occasionally, robotics activities or a spacewalk you might get to do.
— Scott Kelly
I saw a want ad. "light housekeeping." They said "Here, change this bulb." I said "I'll need some friends."
— Steven Wright
Excuse the mess, but we live here.
— Roseanne Barr
Housekeeping in common is for women the acid test.
— Andre Maurois
While Obama merely bowed clumsily in the direction of Idiot America, John McCain set up housekeeping there.
— Charles P. Pierce
Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.
— Patrick Dempsey
Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.
— Marcelene Cox
I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.
— Shirley Conran
Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping.
— Augusten Burroughs
It is one thing to let go of the housekeeping. Quite another to relinquish being the center of your children's universe.
— Anne-Marie Slaughter
Things were a little untidy, but what did that matter? It was possible to become the slave of things; possible to miss life in preparation for living.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
I was going to start a housekeeping business at one point because I'm really good at cleaning houses.
— Britt Robertson
I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
— Pamela Anderson
Hispanics still have the highest rate amongst teens with babies so at least the future housekeeping is secure.
— Chelsea Handler
Of all hateful occupations, housekeeping is to my mind the most hateful.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
— Erma Bombeck
I felt I'd earned the Good Housekeeping Seal when I designed an oval-shaped spaghetti pot, because spaghetti is long.
— Rachael Ray
Housekeeping ain't no joke.
— Louisa May Alcott
I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.
— Roseanne Barr
Loneliness is more likely to lead to fussy housekeeping than to grand views of the Universe.
— Mason Cooley
There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
— Bette Midler
There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.
— Erma Bombeck
Every time I fold the baby's clothes I feel like a giant that got a housekeeping job with a nice family.
— Dana Gould
Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try.
in Good Housekeeping — Peggy Noonan
in Good Housekeeping — Peggy Noonan
Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time.
— Marilynne Robinson
He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house.
— Zsa Zsa Gabor
I've buried a lot of my laundry in the back yard.
— Phyllis Diller
Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A messy house is a must - it separates your true friends from other friends.
Real friends are there to visit you not your house! — Jennifer Wilson
Real friends are there to visit you not your house! — Jennifer Wilson
The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman.
— Marjory Stoneman Douglas
I have been housekeeping for 31 years and I learned something new on every page!
— Deniece Schofield
And this mess is so big
And so deep and so tall,
We cannot pick it up.
There is no way at all! — Dr. Seuss
And so deep and so tall,
We cannot pick it up.
There is no way at all! — Dr. Seuss
In the end, it takes phenomenal neatness of housekeeping to put it through the heads of men that they are swine.
— Eudora Welty
I hate housework. You make the beds, you wash the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.
— Joan Rivers
This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval.
— Norm Dicks
I want to read what you're thinking. I'm pretty sure it's not about housekeeping.
— Kathryn Stockett
Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping. They help to put and keep our lives in order.
— Julia Cameron
The dearest things in the world
are our neighbor's eyes;
they cost everybody more
than anything else in housekeeping. — Sydney Smith
are our neighbor's eyes;
they cost everybody more
than anything else in housekeeping. — Sydney Smith
All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
— Erma Bombeck
Love simply, perpetually exists and that it's a matter of psychic housekeeping to make room for it.
— Sharon Salzberg
Housework can kill you if done right.
— Erma Bombeck
Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.
— Henry David Thoreau