Home Runs Helping

Famous quotes containing the words home, runs and/or helping:

    To market, to market, to buy a fat pig;
    Home again, home again, jiggety jig.
    To market, to market, to buy a fine hog;
    Home again, home again, joggety jog.
    Unknown. To Market, to Market, to Buy a Fat Pig (l. 1–4)

    The roaring alongside he takes for granted,
    and that every so often the world is bound to shake.
    He runs, he runs to the south, finical, awkward,
    in a state of controlled panic, a student of Blake.
    Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

    The happiest two-job marriages I saw during my research were ones in which men and women shared the housework and parenting. What couples called good communication often meant that they were good at saying thanks to one another for small aspects of taking care of the family. Making it to the school play, helping a child read, cooking dinner in good spirit, remembering the grocery list,... these were silver and gold of the marital exchange.
    Arlie Hochschild (20th century)