Domestic Life Quotes

I'll be happiest when I've got my wife and my home.

Nothing in a college education makes a girl either unfit for domestic obligations or masculine in her tastes..

When it comes to referring to Dickens's life, performing plays with your nine children for friends and family during Christmas is Dickensian.

My dad is a civil engineer, and my mom is a stay-at-home mom. The fact that my parents weren't really involved in music was kind of good, because it meant that I had something that was private and personal.

My house is going - kids running out, my wife is running in and out - but I like to sit down and have breakfast.

At my age, and in my circumstances, what sinister object, or personal emolument had I to seek after, in this life? The growing infirmities of age and the increasing love of retirement, daily confirm my decided predilection for domestic life: and the great Searcher of human hearts is my witness, that I have no wish, which aspires beyond the humble and happy lot of living and dying a private citizen on my own farm.

I don’t have to live with the American People, but I do have to live with Lou (his wife).

I just wasn't psychologically made to get married or, God forbid, be a father.

Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy.

The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.

I have a regular life, and I do that intentionally: hanging out with my friends, cooking dinner for my boyfriend.

My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television.

I have a husband at home who doesn't care about politics or global affairs.

I grew up in Hollywood in an apartment. Then in Tarzana, California, on a mini ranch where we owned horses and chickens.

My mother was an extremely creative woman, despite the fact that she lived the life of a rural housewife.

Essentially, I spent most of my childhood with my mother and my older sister, and I suppose I had rather a romantic vision of how things might be if there were men around; I saw myself in a country house with six children and a garden. That has never been achieved - and I still regret it.

Home was quite a place when people stayed there.

The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden-that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.

My husband spends the whole day in politics. I make it a point not to discuss politics with him when he comes home.

I simply love doing household chores and cooking.

I enjoy domestic life. Cooking gives me great pleasure, especially if I can chop vegetables slowly and think about what I'm doing and dream a little about this and that.

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

When I married Marjorie, along with her, I got this very large family and a bunch of family friends. It's a dynamic I've never been around. I've always been kind of a loner, and my attempts at domestic life failed miserably. So the family dynamic is a great thing.

I always wanted a family.

I have a couple of dogs and I live with my partner. We just like to sit and read and I'm generally quite quiet.