Chore Quotes

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
Erma Bombeck

Until, Second, Head

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
Julie Andrews

Free, Order, Discipline

When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore.
Louis C. K.

Marriage, Mother, Father

I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing - something I couldn't wait to get out of the way. Singing was originally like a chore that I didn't really enjoy.
Eric Clapton

Enjoy, Thought, Remember

I enjoy talking to young people, and talking to people about helping young people. That part is not a chore. It's pretty fun, and something I like to do because I think it's important.
Tony Dungy

Fun, Important, Enjoy

I used to hate, with a capitol H, making videos. It was nothing but a chore. It was something you had to do to have your music accepted in the visual medium.
Sheena Easton

Music, Hate, Nothing

I was never overexposed and work never became a chore. I was a very good girl wanting to do a good job.
Anna Paquin

Work, Good, Girl

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

Great, Hard, Here

If I give myself a chore, for instance, when I was writing the songs for Shameless, I said to myself, Now, every day for 90 days you have to write a song; good, bad or indifferent. So that was really helpful.
Judy Collins

Good, Bad, Writing

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
Kate DiCamillo

Children, Reading, Gift

Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving.
David Sarnoff

Yourself, Sense, Whatever

To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a 'home' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.
Emily Post

Home, Woman, Saying

If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.
Rex Stout

Home, Story, Books

I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.
Steven Chu

Rather, Adventure, Schoolwork

For me, the big chore is always the same: how to begin a sentence, how to continue it, how to complete it.
Claude Simon

Same, Big, Continue

Camp life is demanding, and even the simplest daily routine becomes a chore in a climate with 90 per cent humidity, not to mention the bugs.
Stefanie Powers

Life, Daily, Routine

Occasionally I go shopping for clothes, but I find the whole thing a real chore.
Catherine McCormack

Real, Find, Whole

I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.
Bill Forsyth

Thought, Made, Films

I'm not saying I didn't have a great 2008. I just made it a chore. I made it look laborious.
Katie Hoff

Great, Saying, Made

If I had to control what I was speaking, it would be a chore. Right now I just feel I've got my shoes off, everybody comes in, I talk. If I was an actor it could be a problem, but right now I just talk all the crap, I can badmouth anybody I want, I can say what I want and move on.
Tarsem Singh

Control, Problem, Talk

I think for me I've always loved being in the water and I love training and I love being at the pool so you know it's not a chore for me to go training, but come race day I would never just train to train - I train to race.
Stephanie Rice

Love, Training, Loved

The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial! Then I became an agnostic. Christmas was a pro-forma affair, basically a chore. Buy mother a book, dad a new tie, my brother and sister small gifts. Pretend thanks for the fountain pens and shirts I received.
Whitley Strieber

Christmas, Dad, Mother

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