Baths Quotes - Page 10

• I'm not saying all seniors should be running a city or running a business, but I am saying seniors are good for a lot more than simply running a bath, baking cookies or babysitting grandchildren.

  Hazel McCallion

  Senior, Running, Memorable

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• Wash your face every morning in a bath of praise.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Faith, Morning, Faces

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2014). “Songs in the Night”, p.35, Curiosmith

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• Cat lovers can readily be identified. Their clothes always look old and well used. Their sheets look like bath towels, and their bath towels look like a collection of knitting mistakes.

  Eric Gurney

  Mistake, Cat, Animal

  Eric Gurney (2016). “How to Live With A Calculating Cat”, p.95, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• One day I gave Clifford a bath. And I combed his hair and took hom to the dog show. I'd like to say Clifford won first prize...but he didn't. I don't care. You can keep all your small dogs. You can keep all your black, white, brown, and spotted dogs. I'll keep Clifford...Wouldn't you?

  Norman Bridwell

  Dog, Book, Hair

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• Always remember that the ocean delights in feeling your feet in her eternal bath.

  Robert Wyland

  Ocean, Sea, Feet

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• Everything we did was a first: first bath, first walk, first drive in the car. It was like we walked into an alternate universe that looked just like the old one, but all the rules were different and we had to relearn how to live.

  Soleil Moon Frye

  Motherhood, Car, Different

  Soleil Moon Frye (2011). “Happy Chaos”, p.21, Penguin

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• When we are going to enter the water ... in the presence of the congregation and under the hand of the president, we solemnly profess that we disown the devil, his pomp, and his angels. After this we are immersed three times, making a somewhat larger pledge than the Lord appointed in the Gospel. Then we are taken up [a reference to the Roman tradition of recognizing a newborn baby as a member of the family]. We first taste a mixture of milk and honey and from that day we refrain from the daily bath for a whole week.

  Tertullian

  Baby, Taken, Angel

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• A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Rude, Receiving, Agents

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.373, Cambridge University Press

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• Eureka! Eureka!
  Supposed to have been his cry, jumping naked from his bath and running in the streets, excited by a discovery about water displacement to solve a problem about the purity of a gold crown.

  Archimedes

  Running, Jumping, Discovery

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• Life is not as idle ore,
  But iron dug from central gloom,
  And heated hot with burning fears,
  And dipt in baths of hissing tears,
  And batter'd with the shocks of doom,
  To shape and use.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Iron, Tears

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.840, Delphi Classics

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• There are two ways to get rid of an anxiety monster,my friend-you either have a bath or a nap.

  Andrew Kaufman

  Two, Naps, Anxiety

  Andrew Kaufman (2013). “All My Friends Are Superheroes”, p.25, Coach House Books

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• Now aren't you glad I made you take a bath?" Bill asked. "One less bottle of eau de reekette punching holes in l'ozone.

  Lauren Kate

  Ozone, Bottles, Bills

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.810, Delacorte Press

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• I gave my artistic laugh and also threw in some quirky language for good measure. "Lawks-a-mercy, no! I'm going to have a long bath and..." I looked shyly down. Which is pretty impressive to have done artistic laugh, quirky language and shyness all in the space of ten seconds.

  Louise Rennison

  Space, Long, Laughing

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• The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night's sleep.

  Margaret George

  Broken Heart, Good Night, Sleep

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• Even if you’ve taken off every stitch of clothing, you still have your secrets, your history, your true name. It’s hard to be really naked. You have to work hard at it. Just getting into a bath isn’t being naked, not really. It’s just showing skin.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Life, Taken, Hard Work

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• Well, if the excitement's over, I think I'll take a bath.' 'Wow. The harsh lifestyle of a succubus. I wish I had your job.' 'Hey, our side's always recruiting. You might need to be a little prettier to be an incubus, though. And a little more charming.' 'Untrue. Mortal women go for jerks. I see it all the time.' 'Touché.

  Richelle Mead

  Jobs, Thinking, Wish

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• A three-year old was examining his testicles while taking a bath. 'Mom,' he asked,'are these my brains?' 'Not yet.' she replied.

  Allan Pease

  Mom, Years, Brain

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• I recommend Avon Skin-So-Soft. It’s a bath product. It smells like someone fed a Disney Princess through a juicer, but it works better than anything else on the market.

  Mira Grant

  Princess, Smell, Skins

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• At sixteen, Sabina took moon baths, first of all, because everyone else took sun baths, and second, she admitted, because she had been told it was dangerous.

  Anais Nin

  Moon, Sixteen, Firsts

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• I never need to find time to read. When people say to me, ‘Oh, yeah, I love reading. I would love to read, but I just don’t have time,’ I’m thinking, ‘How can you not have time?’ I read when I’m drying my hair. I read in the bath. I read when I’m sitting in the bathroom. Pretty much anywhere I can do the job one-handed, I read.

  J. K. Rowling

  Jobs, Reading, Thinking

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• I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up over the jazz and push of New York, for near unto an hour, and I felt myself growing pure again. I don't believe in baptism or the waters of Jordan or anything like that, but I guess I feel about a hot bath the way those religious people feel about holy water.

  Sylvia Plath

  Religious, New York, Believe

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.13, Hamilton Books

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• All right," sighed Madrigal. "To the baths, then. To make ourselves shiningly clean." Like vegetable, she thought, before they go in the stew.

  Laini Taylor

  Vegetables, Clean, Stew

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• Hazael rose from his knees. It had to take extraordinary effort, yet somehow he managed a version of his lazy smile when he said, "You know, I've always wanted to be a bath attendant. You should take me instead. I'm nicer than my sister." Jael returned the lazy smile. "You're not my type." "Well, you're not anybody's type," said Hazael. "No, wait. I take it back. My sword says she'd like to know you better." "I'm afraid I must deny her the pleasure. I've been kissed by swords before, you see." "I may have noticed.

  Laini Taylor

  Rose, Effort, Waiting

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• Now, we can live in this little, liberal bubble bath where everybody's supposed to like everybody and do all this stuff and understand our pain and know our history. But that, maybe, works in your dorm, that doesn't work in the real world, and people need to get out of all that.

  Van Jones

  Pain, Real, People

  Source: pen.org

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• Sunday, if I'm lucky, I'll go to church or listen to some good spiritual advice on the television or on the radio. I take three or four baths to try to cleanse myself, so I'm fresh for Monday.

  Maya Angelou

  Spiritual, Monday, Sunday

  Source: www.washingtoncitypaper.com

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