Busy Household Quotes

I think I was always this weird, watchful kind of kid, and there was an awful lot of coming and going in my house as a result of my father being a doctor and then, later, a politician... We'd literally be having to get through the window some days because we couldn't get in the door.

I'm mostly retired. Now I'm a mother with a really noisy, difficult house to maintain!

The focus of our family life was homework and what was for dinner; getting to ballet rehearsal and getting my brother to soccer.

When you have a house full of children, there's never a quiet moment, so I like getting out in the garden for a bit of time to myself.

It was always chaos with Mom, Dad, uncles, you know; we all lived in the same building. Dinner parties with 25 people every night.

I've got nine kids, nine dogs, three grandkids - and one in the oven. And three parrots!

My household is, in a nice way, very busy.

Always, ever since I was a little girl, my house has been basically a zoo.

My overwhelming memory of my childhood is the constant busyness in the house. I am seventh out of eight kids - five boys and three girls - plus my mom, Ruth.

You can't live like a monk if you have two five-year-old twins. That ain't happening. Just the opposite, actually.

As one of seven children, our family life was full of energy and fun - we all knew how to laugh and work hard.

A school morning is usually a pretty hectic time in any household.