Handyman Skills Quotes

DIY skills are hot. The ability to put up a shelf and hang a picture is always good and being able to cook. Cooking's really hot.

An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.

A real man don't call the plumbers. If he gonna call himself a man, he needs to know how to fix it, on the spot

I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'

Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.

I'm good with furniture, very bad with plants.

I know how to lay a copper pipe and PVC. And I was forklift certified.

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brain and in your hands, wherever you go.

The decline of practical skills, some of them very day-to-day, among a generation of British men is very worrying. They can't put up a shelf, wire a plug, countersink a screw, iron a shirt. They believe it's endearing and cute to be useless, whereas I think it's boring, and everyone's getting sick of it.

I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.

I do change the odd lightbulb, and I fix the Internet when it goes down, because it's something I am really good at.

I grew up among farmers in Illinois and so you always have to have the tools you might need in the eventuality of a flat tire or a broken window.

The only thing I knew how to do without a lot of money was repairing tools. I actually started making and repairing tools for machines.

I'd love to do more woodworking, and maybe will someday, but I wasn't brought up in that environment. My wife is better at woodworking, and most around-the-house skills, than I am.

I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.

I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring.

When I was four or five years old, my grandfather showed me how to build things, paint, saw. Through years of fixing bikes, repairing lawn mowers, I learned how things work.

I'm useless around the house.

I have no interest in a guy who doesn't know the right end of a screwdriver.

When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware.

I try to work on houses not cars. If I was as good at working on cars as I was on houses maybe I would. But I'm not.

I like a man who can build things. Whittle me something out of wood and I'm sold.

I get around OK with a toolbox. As a kid, I picked up skills following my dad through the oil fields of Oklahoma and West Texas. My wife Janine is hard to impress, but she does think it's cool when I fix things around the house.

As a kid growing up in a rural area, I was always tinkering with parts and machinery.

All over the US, there is a need to teach young people to, really, get them out in the backyard, building treehouses, fixing bicycles, because you become a better, more well-rounded, Renaissance personality if you actually know how to do things with your hands. If you can fix the screen door or replace your old garbage disposal, even change the tire on a car, a lot of people don't even know how to do that. We're literally running out of people who know how to do those things, the essential things like plumbing, carpentry, stone masonry, we're literally running out of them.