#domestic

Like many men, I am not ashamed to admit that my principal joys are domestic. I love cooking, and I love looking after my children. Indeed, the times that I have with them are the only ones when I feel unconditionally happy. ↗

— Louis de Bernieres

#after #am #ashamed #children #cooking

It isn't very nice to admit, but domestic violence has its uses. So raw and unleashed, it tears away the veil of civilization that comes between us as much as it makes life possible. A poor substitute for the sort of passion we like to extol perhaps, but real love shares more in common with hatred and rage than it does with geniality or politeness. ↗

— Lionel Shriver

#passion #tear #veil #violence #life

With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it. ↗

— Graham Coxon

#bit #blur #by the time #came #daughter

Having a separate bathroom for the black domestic was just the way things were done. It had faded out in new homes by the time the '70s and '80s rolled up. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#black #by the time #domestic #done #faded

It's been argued that of all the animals humans have domesticated, the horse is the most important to our history. For thousands of years, horses were our most reliable mode of transportation. ↗

— Elton Gallegly

#been #domesticated #history #horse #horses

It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#emerges #georgian #hardly #most #remarkable

I get very caught up with things. I used to be dominated by domestic things. I had a lovely house in LA-and it became this growing, mad obsession. ↗

— Kyle MacLachlan

#caught #domestic #dominated #get #growing

I feel strikingly domestic. We're in our own world with two busses and trucks. ↗

— John Mayer

#domestic #feel #i #i feel #our

I'm very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I'm worried about the kinds of cuts in domestic programs that mean something to a lot of people, including members of my family, who depend on certain things from the government. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#bush #bush presidency #certain #certain things #concerned

Access to basic quality health care is one of the most important domestic issues facing our nation. ↗

— Ed Pastor

#basic #care #domestic #facing #health