Cleaning Quotes - Page 4

• Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

  Phyllis Diller

  Growing Up, Children, Silly

  Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints (1966)

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• I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first.

  Astrid Lindgren

  House, Mind, Dying

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• Excuse the mess but we live here.

  Roseanne Barr

  Excuse, Mess

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• Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Funny, Smile, Laughter

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Feb 03, 2015

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• My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.

  Bette Midler

  Ideas, Superwoman, Clean House

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• I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

  Al Sharpton

  Mom, Mother, Rags

  "Sharpton answers Bush in speech". www.cnn.com. July 29, 2004.

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• I always clean before the cleaning lady comes. If not, when I come home, I can't find anything. Cleaning ladies are always hiding things you leave out.

  Celia Cruz

  Home, Hiding, I Can

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• The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.

  Bob Woodward

  Truth, Lying, Finals

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Live Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

  Charles Dickens

  Light, Alcohol, Lightning

  'Nicholas Nickleby' (1839) ch. 49 (The Gentleman in the Small-clothes)

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• Fuel cell vehicles run on clean-burning hydrogen and are three times more efficient than the traditional combustible engine.

  Albert Wynn

  Running, Hydrogen Fuel, Cells

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• The circuit training program along with a healthy clean diet is the way to excellent results.

  Lee Haney

  Healthy, Training, Way

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• The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Drinking, Years, Kyoto

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

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• When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!

  Dennis Weaver

  Environmental, Done, Bucks

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• The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It's a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for.

  Steve Squyres

  Rocks, Looks, Surface

  "NASA rover wakes up on Mars" By Richard Stenger, www.cnn.com. January 4, 2004.

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• I am never five minutes into stripping the clutter from my life before I start running into the clutter that is my life.

  Robert Breault

  Running, Minutes, Stripping

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• You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.

  Ellen Swallow Richards

  Cooking, Trying, Needs

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• The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Balance, Output, Settings

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• I'm always happy when I'm cleaning, and besides, I had just found out that I was going to have a baby.

  Peggy Lee

  Baby, Found, Always Happy

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• Let's clean up our environment. Let's clean up our bodies, but most importantly, let's not permit our babies of the future to be polluted before they are even born.

  Louise Slaughter

  Baby, Body, Environment

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  Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Hilarious, Witty

  Phyllis Diller (2006). “Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy”, p.77, Penguin

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• The most work he did on [the urinals] was to run a brush once or twice apiece, singing some song as loud as he could in time to the swishing brush; then he'd splash in some Clorox and he'd be through. ... And when the Big Nurse...came in to check McMurphy's cleaning assignment personally, she brought a little compact mirror and she held it under the rim of the bowls. She walked along shaking her head and saying, "Why, this is an outrage... an outrage..." at every bowl. McMurphy sidled right along beside her, winking down his nose and saying in answer, "No; that's a toilet bowl...a TOILET bowl.

  Ken Kesey

  Running, Song, Mcmurphy

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• The disgust with dirt can be so great that it keeps us from cleaning ourselves--from "justifying" ourselves.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dirt, Purification, Disgusting

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.276, Modern Library

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• Did you ever notice all the items on a honey do list are dangerous. Clean gutters, put light in shower, patch roof. It's a honey die list.

  Bill Engvall

  Light, Gutters, Honey

  Twitter post from Apr 30, 2013

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• When you forgive, you heal your own anger and hurt and are able to let love lead again. It's like spring cleaning for your heart.

  Marci Shimoff

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Hurt

  Marci Shimoff, Carol Kline (2009). “Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• A good home must be made, not bought.

  Joyce Maynard

  Home, Made, House Cleaning

  Joyce Maynard (1988). “Domestic affairs: enduring the pleasures of motherhood and family life”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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