Famous quotes containing the words hot water, domestic, hot and/or water:
“As a bathtub lined with white porcelain,
When the hot water gives out or goes tepid,
So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion,
O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.”
—Ezra Pound (18851972)
“Mighty few young black women are doin domestic work. And Im glad. Thats why I want my kids to go to school. This one lady told me, All you people are gettin like that. I said, Im glad. Theres no more gettin on their knees.”
—Maggie Holmes, African American domestic worker. As quoted in Working, book 3, by Studs Terkel (1973)
“When hot dogs like Mr. DAmato or the Republican apologist Roger Ailes say that Whitewater is worse than Watergate, its because theyre suffering from a disease. Its called bull-imia, and its the regurgitation of patent hyperbole.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“We wished our two souls
might return like gulls
to the rock. In the end,
the water was too cold for us.”
—Robert Lowell (19171977)