Top 118 Chores Quotes & Sayings

I was born and raised on a farm, where boys had chores and girls did not, i.e., drive tractors, bale hay, take care of cattle.

My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works.

I simply love doing household chores and cooking.

If you're co-founder or CEO, you have to do all kinds of tasks you might not want to do. If you don't do your chores, the company won't succeed. No task is too menial.

TaskRabbit is a safe and convenient way for you to hire someone to help you with your chores around the house.

I've been looking over the list of spring chores I made up last fall, and darned if they aren't fall chores, after all.

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.

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

I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.

I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be.

My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.

I love to go home and do the chores and read.

Myself and my two younger sisters and brother were paid for any chores, whether it was washing pop's car, sweeping the lawn or picking mangoes.

All those who run away to ashrams, thinking they are doing something great are just performing daily chores there - cooking, gardening etc. After all, the place has to be run.

If a cow walked into this room, I'd probably walk out. I could milk it, but my dad never forced me to do a lot of chores like that, mostly because he loved doing it himself.

They shared the chores of living as some couples do-she did most of the work and he appreciated it.

I learned a lot when I was 14 and 15 years old doing chores inside and outside the household, and as a result, I grew up with a good work ethic.

I was serious about retiring the first time, but the first week I was home my wife had SO many chores to do I went back.

I always forget about some of the things I've done, because you do 'em, and sometimes they don't come out, and... most of it's almost like daily chores or something. You check it off your list, and then it's gone.

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

I'm just the same as any other kid, my mum gets me to the do the washing up and help with the chores - nothing much has changed there.

It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.

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

[I had Bar mitzvah ]it was just me and my mom. And she's celebrating. And she's reading things to me in Hebrew. I don't know what's going on. And she's telling me that now I'm a man. And I'm like, does that mean I have no chores? And she's like, no, you still have chores, but you're a man. I didn't understand most of it.

I like doing chores.

We do our chores when chores are needed to be done.

During the lockdown, I remain busy in household chores. Since there are no domestic helps, we have to everything from sweeping to mopping and washing utensils on our own.

Apart from studies and playtime, I involve my son in house cleaning and other chores.

Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.

Mum and Dad grew vegetables and every day it would be beans for dinner and we'd have to go and pick them, and weed and stuff. If you wanted your pocket money you did your chores.

Really, I don't like to do any household chores. There was a time when I loved to cook, but that was when I wasn't writing books.

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

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.

Except for the usual house chores, doing income tax, etc., I am free to write whenever I want.

Give girls and boys equal education for a better life but also train them to do their own chores.

I help with everything. My wife and I are a team. I pack my son's lunches, and she takes him to baseball practice when I gotta go train. It's hand-in-hand. There are no labels on our chores.

I photographed Arthur Coble and his sons Milton and Darrel as they did chores, but the vicious winds made it difficult to see and breathe.

I always felt that a marriage works best at a farm... where you're together and everybody has clear-cut roles; they have chores, 'you take care of this' and you know. But it's hard.

I had brothers and sisters and did chores and had to pick up the dog crap in the yard and mow the lawn and do all the normal things that kids have to do.

I have a lot of help to do chores so I can be with my family, and I never have any help over the weekends.

Mystery bores me. It chores me. I know what happens and so do you. It's the machinations that wheel us there that aggravate, perplex, interest, and astound me.

My parents were relaxed, but very strict on manners. They encouraged us to follow our instincts and desires, so they were quite bohemian in that sense, but we had to work hard and that included chores.

I was obsessed with films as a kid and so recorded as many as I could. I spent all my pocket money and any money earned by doing extra chores on blank videos for my burgeoning cinema.

No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting.

If I can do it, men can certainly do it. It's interesting now to talk about equality in the home and involving men in household chores such that women don't have to over extend themselves doing both her job and coming home and doing all the household chores. So, that kind of sharing the load is something that I have seen in my family growing up.

I actually recommend as little actual counting as possible in a life partnership. But, when there's a sense of injustice brewing between you, some counting is inevitable, and so my advice is to count using as broad a scope as possible. It's not just hours worked or chores done, either, and it's not even just about the household - it's a system of Whole Marriage Thinking. It's about hours worked, chores done, goals supported, emotional needs met, everything. What it all takes out of you, what it all gives back. It all factors in.

Paralympics... fascinating because just watching anyone with a major disability trying to do everyday chores is fun to watch.

I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope and is always thrilling.

Southern people are raised with a work ethic. My son is 5 years old and does chores. My mom was a dance teacher, and the training and discipline it takes to be a dancer I've carried with me in Hollywood.

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

Immaturity means self-centeredness, inability to compromise, to rise above hurt feelings, to postpone immediate pleasures in favor of future benefits, or to do unpleasant chores when they need to be done.

My mom keeps me grounded and all that. She makes me do chores.

My in-laws don't let me do much household chores so maximum of time is devoted to my four-year-old son Kabir.

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 was the second oldest of seven children, and chores were a way of life for us. If your task wasn't completed, you were called right back to finish it.

When we talk about kids earning commission for chores, we always have at least one parent who argues that children should do chores because they are part of the family. I agree, but if you don't involve money in a few chores, you lose the teachable moments in the work, spend, save, and give principles.

Chores which can be done in an hour, I take about three hours to do it.

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.

We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.

Nobody beats a bunch of journalists for inflating their rather mundane straightforward chores with a lot more melodrama and self-importance than the job should be asked to contain.