Cleaning Quotes

• Housekeeping ain't no joke.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Work, Housekeeping, Household

  1868 Little Women, pt.1, ch.11.

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• Clean up your own mess.

  Robert Fulghum

  Clean, Mess

  All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1988)

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• Cleaning is considered a vital part of the training process in all traditional Japanese disciplines and is a required practice for any novice. It is accorded spiritual significance. Purifying an unclean place is believed to purify the mind.

  Mineko Iwasaki

  Spiritual, Practice, Discipline

  Mineko Iwasaki, Rande Brown (2012). “Geisha Of Gion: The True Story Of Japan's Foremost Geisha”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• The cleaning is something I use as a reward if I get some work done. I go into a very happy state of mind when I'm vacuuming.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Mind, Use, Done

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• We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do.

  Marina Abramovic

  House, Important, Used

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• I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait.

  Chris Hemsworth

  House, Personality, Lazy

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• Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Life, Time, Writing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps... It just feels right.

  David Hobson

  Winter, Garden, Order

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• Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Tasks, Endless, Made

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• Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate.

  Agnes Macphail

  Jobs, Dirty, Men

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• Who are we really? Combinations of common chemicals that perform mechanical actions for a few years before crumbling back into the original components? Fresh new souls, drawn at random for some celestial cupboard where God keeps an unending supply?Or the same soul, immortal and eternal, refurbished and reused through endless lives, by that thrifty Housekeeper? In Her wisdom and benevolence She wipes off the memory slates, as part of the cleaning process, because if we could remember all the things we have experienced in earlier lives, we might object to risking it again.

  Barbara Mertz

  Memories, Years, Soul

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• All I'm thinking about today is cleaning my bathroom.

  Linda Fiorentino

  Thinking, Today, Bathroom

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I look forward to spring cleaning and putting things in their place. It's therapeutic for me.

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Spring, Looks, Therapeutic

  "Kimora Lee Simmons Dishes About Online Shopping, Her Favorite Things to Buy, and Hypothetical Hoarding" by Danica Lo, www.glamour.com. April 9, 2012.

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• The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Running, Men, Ideas

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Respect, Men, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Government, Goal, Environmental

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• The meals were served in a large hall, in which Moctezuma was accustomed to eat, and the dishes quite filled the room, which was covered with mats and kept very clean.

  Hernando Cortes

  Meals, Rooms, Dishes

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• I started making some proper decisions, getting things in order. It's kind of like cleaning up your house. I was looking for direction for what God wanted me to do - and that's when I got a call about The Passion.

  Scott Stapp

  Passion, Order, House

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• I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.

  Patricia Heaton

  Mother, Perfectly Good, Shopping

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• Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

  Ann Oakley

  Inspirational, Self, Possibility

  Ann Oakley (1974). “Woman's work: the housewife, past and present”, Vintage

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• I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me.

  Willie Aames

  Stars, People, Looks

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• There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.

  Paul Hindemith

  Music, Two, Conscience

  1938 Letter to Willy Strecker

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• When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Funny, Travel, New York

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• At least I'm going into the job with clean hands.

  Pete Rozelle

  Jobs, Hands, Clean

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• The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand.

  William Dampier

  Morning, August, Land

  William Dampier (2012). “A Voyage to New Holland”, p.114, tredition

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