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“Of course, every house is constructed by someone, but the one who constructed all things is God.” – Apostle Paul – Heb. 3:4 – The HOLY SCRIPTURES
No success in public life can compensate for failure in the home. – Benjamin Disraeli
My house was so small I had to go outside to change my mind – Me - Growing up in a small apartment in Hurt Village in Memphis in the 1950s.
Housework, if you do it right, will kill you. – Erma Bombeck
“Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness, and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, and our lives.” – Scout (Jean Louise Finch) – near conclusion – TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD – Harper Lee
It is easier to build strong children than it is to repair broken men. – Frederick Douglass
“The telephone has too many short comings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.” – Western Union to Alexander Graham Bell when offered the patent in 1876.
You must floss your teeth, if you want to keep them. You must study with your children, if you want to keep them. – Joseph Siranko (Traveling minister)
“They do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them live and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn’t think so. People were human beings to him, but to you, a warped frustrated old man, they’re cattle. Well, in my book he died a much richer man than you will ever be!” – James Stewart (George Bailey) to Lionel Barrymore (Potter) – IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE – Francis Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Frank Capra (Screenplay)
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument. – Voltaire
Get that garbage out of here! It stinks like CAIRN! – My Momma (Cairn—short for carrion)
Bed is like the womb, only drier with better TV reception. – Linda Richmond
“Whatever she planted grew as if by magic, and her fame as a grower of flowers grew over three counties. Because of her creativity, even my memories of poverty are seen through a screen of blooms.” – Alice Walker –IN SEARCH OF OUR MOTHER’S GARDENS
It’s better to give children rules to break rather than no rules at all. – Tipper Gore
What’s done to children they will do to society. – Dr. Karl Meninger
Infrequent verbal expressions of love are like trying to fit old shoes on a teenager—they just don’t fit. You can never go back. – Leo Buscaglia – LOVE
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“And they will build houses and live in them. And they will plant vineyards and eat their fruitage.” – Prophet Isaiah – Isa. 65:21 – The HOLY SCRIPTURES
Worrying is less work than doing something to fix the worry. Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom with the dishes. – P. J. O’Rourke
Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. – Oliver W. Holmes
Home is the nicest word there is. – Laura Ingalls Wilder
Not many signs in life, urban or rural, exceed in interest like a knock on the door. – Charles Lamb
E-mail is like after a hard day’s work, coming home and finding 70 people in your kitchen. – John O’Donoghue
You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to your computer to turn your brain on. – Steve Jobs
Home is the place where, if you go there, they have to take you in. – Robert Frost
Every new possession loads us with a new weariness. – John Ruskin
I’m not gonna vacuum until Sears makes one you can ride on. – Rosanne Barr
Houseguests should be regarded as perishables. Leave them out too long and they go bad. – Erma Bombeck
I think there is a world market for about 5 computers. – Thomas J. Watson, chairman of IBM. – 1943
I’ve learned that having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful things in the world. – AndyRooney
Nothing is more memorable than SMELL. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains: another, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant landmines hidden under a weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth. – Diane Ackerman
Home is where the heart is. – Pliny the Elder
Home is where we rehearse for life and prepare for reality. – Gary Pulliam
A fellow that owns his own home is always coming out of a hardware store. – Ken Hubbard
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk while it is still snowing. – Phyllis Diller
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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, let him make her sorry to let him leave. – Martin Luther
A man’s home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside, it is more often his nursery. – Clare Boothe Luce
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. – Confucius
The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? – David Sarnoff’s associates on radio future in 1920.
My theory on housework is, if it doesn’t multiply, smell, catch on fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one cares. Why should you? – Erma Bombeck
**Home is a place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. – Robert Frost
Housekeeping ain’t no joke. – Louisa May Alcott
We have been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We plan more, but accomplish less. We build more computers to hold more information, but we communicate less and less. – George Carlin
