Clean Quotes

• Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Positive, Teamwork, Responsibility

  41 Copy quote

• Clean up your own backyard. Change by example. Just be the way you want others to be and hope they pay attention.

  Larry Winget

  Example, Backyards, Attention

  9 Copy quote

• Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Air, Aquariums

  254 Copy quote

• Make a mess. Clean it up.

  Keri Smith

  Mess

  4 Copy quote

• Go ahead. You're not going to walk in on anyone. I'm home alone." "The whole night?" Immediately, I realized it might not have been the smartest thing to say. "Dorothea will be coming soon." That was a lie. Dorothea was long gone. It was close to midnight. "Dorothea?" "Our housekeeper. She's old- but strong. Very strong." I tried to squeeze past him. Unsuccessfully. "Sounds frightening," he said, retrieving the key from the lock. He held it out for me. "She can clean a toilet inside and out in under a minute. More like terrifying.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Strong, Lying, Home

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.

  Publilius Syrus

  Change, Hands, Looks

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: From the Latin". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 715, 1856.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.

  Umberto Eco

  Passion, Aluminum, Nostalgia

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.219, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The humble person receives praise the way a clean window takes the light of the sun. The truer and more intense the light is, the less you see of the glass.

  Thomas Merton

  Humble, Glasses, Light

  Thomas Merton (1972). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.189, New Directions Publishing

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you properly clean a room, it gets dirtier before it gets cleaner.

  Chris Rock

  Rooms, Cleaners, Ifs

  "Chris Rock On Obama: ‘Being The First Black ANYTHING Sucks’". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2012.

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.

  Calvin Trillin

  Hands, My Family, Century

  4 Copy quote

• You do a clean show and it's over and the audience have enjoyed themselves and you've enjoyed yourself, and you haven't had to resort to shock.

  Bob Newhart

  Resorts, Shock, Shows

  4 Copy quote

• Nobody else can give you a clean heart but God.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Heart, Giving, Clean Heart

  29 Copy quote

• Unforgiveness is spiritual filthiness, so get washed in the water of God's Word to forgive and stay clean.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Spiritual, Water

  6 Copy quote

• If I read the newspaper I come out dirtier than I went in. If I read my Bible, I come out cleaner than I went in, and I like being clean!

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Newspapers, Cleaners, Ifs

  134 Copy quote

• The Mississippi River towns are comely, clean, well built, and pleasing to the eye, and cheering to the spirit. The Mississippi Valley is as reposeful as a dreamland, nothing worldly about it . . . nothing to hang a fret or a worry upon.

  Mark Twain

  Cheer, Eye, Rivers

  9 Copy quote

• It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.

  Stephane Mallarme

  Jobs, Reality, Creating

  24 Copy quote

• As long as you're growing in your profession and you're respected, you're going to stay as clean as you can, because you've got something that you love that you don't want to lose.

  Paul Anka

  Long, Growing, Want

  "Singer-songwriter Paul Anka". "Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. April 16, 2013.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• The ensemble playing is as clean as a whistle. The band plays in tune and with dynamics. Also, there is some fine arranging and orchestrating going on here, and the soloists perform at top level.

  Horace Silver

  Play, Tunes, Ensemble

  8 Copy quote

• I've been in the same place for 10 years and having to say goodbye and clean out the locker is the toughest part.

  Roy Oswalt

  Goodbye, Years, Lockers

  4 Copy quote

• You can start over again! Don't even think about quitting now! It is easy to replay in your mind how things did not work, how much you lost, what you are going through, how angry you are. There is no amount of conversation or magic that is going to wipe the slate clean. You are wasting valuable time and energy that could be used to regain a new normal and start another version of your life. Even though you are hurt and you may be feeling down — stop kicking yourself! Face what has happened. Make the decision to start over again.

  Les Brown

  Hurt, Thinking, New Normal

  27 Copy quote

• Where does rain come from? It comes from all the dirty water that evaporates from the earth, like urine and the water you throw out after washing your feet. Isn't it wonderful how the sky can take that dirty water and change it into pure, clean water? Your mind can do the same with your defilements if you let it.

  Ajahn Chah

  Rain, Dirty, Sky

  17 Copy quote

• After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and touch the reed at the proper time in the proper way.

  Lee Konitz

  Simple, Years, Play

  7 Copy quote

• If I don't think about anything, and start with a clean slate, in terms of what I have to do, a lot of different ideas come up, and I can think about things more openly.

  Namie Amuro

  Thinking, Ideas, Different

  59 Copy quote

• Lord, it's one kind favor I'll ask of you. See that my grave is kept clean.

  Blind Lemon Jefferson

  Favors, Kind, Lord

  12 Copy quote