Chores Quotations

My parents pushed us very hard to work, both in the home, doing chores and cooking, and at school.

Sometimes as a parent, you have to give your child that doesn't do his or her chores some tough love and withhold the allowance.

Helping others isn't a chore; it is one of the greatest gifts there is.

For many people, music is here to let them forget the daily chores of life.

If everyone is good at something different, assigning chores is easy. If your partner is great at grocery shopping and you are great at the laundry, you're set. But this isn't always - or even usually - the case.

I do not run late. Growing up on a farm, you're just not late when it's time to do chores or go to work. I grew up Mennonite, and so that work ethic and timeliness was just ingrained in me from a very young age.

I'm a big advocate of a work-for-pay setup rather than an allowance that isn't attached to chores - it's a great way to impart the value of money to your children.

I do have a chore schedule - in my mind. I dont tell anyone I have it, but its in my mind.

When I have time, I'll be a good girl and do my chores.

Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores it's called partnership.

On a day of burial there is no perspective -- for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was -- to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.

He grew up being very independent. He had his chores like any kid did at that time. There was never any, 'I don't want to do it.' You had to do it to sustain yourself.

He forgets homework, has to be prodded to do his chores and gets grounded just like other kids. We have to remind him about daily stuff. He's a pain in the butt to his brothers and sister. I don't want him to have to be Super Kid.

We've found that if you can help remove some of the chores people have to do in their lives while they're working, it makes them appreciate the job a little more.

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.

It givens them chores to do, and they get to have fun and have responsibilities. It's a learning experience for them and older kids selling animals is one way they get money for college,

We had chores to do - cleaning the chicken coop, feeding the horses, milking the cows. That's where I learned how to milk a cow. We used to have a big pump in the yard - the best water I ever tasted in my life. It had such a pleasant taste.

Even the smallest daily chore can be humanized with the harmony of culture.

Women can hire a domestic helper to help them with their daily chores or child-rearing but some women do not feel comfortable hiring an outsider to do such work. So they turn to their relatives, particularly their mother or their sister, to help them.

Every time I come home she has got chores for me to do. Take out the garbage, pull weeds, trim the screens. I thought it was a break.

So my advice for Valentine's Day? Look her in the eye. Eat dinner together. Hold his hand. Go shopping together. Most of life is chores. It's how you lived life and shared the chores of living that's important.

Technology can empower small retailers, freeing them up from mundane chores such as managing inventory and accounting systems manually. It can enable them to be a little more creative, a lot more efficient and a lot less sweaty.

People don't like having to do tasks by themselves -- especially housework. Rather than doing chores separately, it can be a much more positive experience when families do them at the same time.

Think of it as an electronic piggy bank. Everyday errands and chores now deliver added value for our customers and the response in the last few months has been tremendous.

You can't let that get to you because then, again, your functionality, your daily chores can't get done. ... And my legal team has inspired me to behave in an appropriate fashion.

They're giving up doing their work and their chores at their homes to come over here and work for us.

At 11 this morning -- or 11:30, when my phone rang -- I was doing household chores and expected to come in and spend some time working on our plans for next year, and being here tomorrow morning first thing to do those things, ... My energy and dedication hasn't been thinking about my next job. I was trying to do this job the right way.

I'll be available when asked for whatever chores CBS News, '60 Minutes,' 'The Evening News,' et cetera, have in mind for me.

If there is difference of opinion between husband and wife then household chores will become impossible to accomplish. To avoid this the relationship between husband and wife should be cordial and loving.

I like to distinguish between 'citizen of the household' chores - like keeping a room free of breeding diseases - from 'work-for-pay' chores. But it's important to teach that you get money by earning it - there's no entitlement program out there simply because you were born.

The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization.

I'd have to give her dad the credit for Brittany's strength. Brittany helps her father with firewood and chores and that's helped make her strong.

Writing is a holy chore.

It's hard to shoot anything in L.A.; it's just a chore, but they're great here.

We make them [kids] earn the stuff they want. They're not going to play with their iPad today unless they do their chores.

I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.

You will achieve grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day -- not long and difficult projects, but chores that will take you, step by step, toward your rainbow. Write them down, if you must, but limit your list so that you won't have to drag today's undone matters into tomorrow. Remember that you cannot build your pyramid in twenty-four hours. Be patient. Never allow your day to become so cluttered that you neglect your most important goal -- to do the best you can, enjoy this day, and rest satisfied with what you have accomplished.