Jewel House Department

Famous quotes containing the words jewel, house and/or department:

    As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
    Bible: Hebrew Proverbs, 11:22.

    I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don’t want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
    Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927)

    “Which is more important to you, your field or your children?” the department head asked. She replied, “That’s like asking me if I could walk better if you amputated my right leg or my left leg.”
    —Anonymous Parent. As quoted in Women and the Work Family Dilemma, by Deborah J. Swiss and Judith P. Walker, ch. 2 (1993)