Brooms Quotes

• Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Happiness, Inspiring, Fear

  Zora Neale Hurston (2010). “Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography”, p.38, Harper Collins

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• A new broom can sweep the floor, but an old broom knows where the dirt is.

  Paul Mooney

  Dirt, Knows

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• Do you want to be great? Pick up a broom and sweep the floor.

  Mother Teresa

  Want, Picks

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• Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Errors, Stronger

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• A broom is drearily sweeping up the broken pieces of yesterday's life.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Sadness, Yesterday, Broken

  Song: And The Wind Cries Mary

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• The person who sweeps the floor should choose the broom.

  Howard Behar

  Should, Persons

  Howard Behar, Janet Goldstein (2007). “It's Not About the Coffee: Lessons on Putting People First from a Life at Starbucks”, p.63, Penguin

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• Basic principles: no matter what, no matter when, no matter who... any man has a chance to sweep any woman off her feet. He just needs the right broom.

  Will Smith

  Men, Feet, Principles

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• Never let the guy with the broom decide how many elephants can be in the parade.

  Merlin Mann

  Elephants, Guy, Parades

  Twitter post from Apr 20, 2010

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• Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course.

  John Lukacs

  Forever, Matter, Generalization

  John Lukacs (1990). “Confessions of an original sinner”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• It's not the size of the army but the power within the army.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Army, Size

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• Only brooms
  Know the devil
  Still exists,
  
  That the snow grows whiter
  After a crow has flown over it

  Charles Simic

  Snow, Evil, Crow

  Charles Simic (2013). “New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Before getting to my mother's house, I would always think of her on the porch or even on the street, sweeping. She had a light way of sweeping, as if removing the dirt were not as important as moving the broom over the ground. Her way of sweeping was symbolic; so airy, so fragile, with a broom she tried to sweep away all the horrors, all the loneliness, all the misery that had accompanied her all her life.

  Reinaldo Arenas

  Mother, Loneliness, Moving

  Reinaldo Arenas (2010). “Before Night Falls”, p.142, Profile Books

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• A broom sweeps clean, and itself becomes soiled; cleanse yourself of those offenses of which you may feel guilty.

  Baal Shem Tov

  May, Guilty, Clean

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• Wouldn't the world be a cleaner place if we gave blind people brooms instead of canes?

  Nick Thune

  People, World, Blind

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• I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone.

  Patti LaBelle

  Kids, Shy, Microphones

  FaceBook post by Patti LaBelle from Aug 14, 2012

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• I think we are all frightened a little bit when a new broom starts to sweep.

  Steve Bruce

  Thinking, Littles, Frightened

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• I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Teenage, Kids, Mirrors

  "Portrait of the artist: Jon Bon Jovi, musician". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2010.

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• I was telling stories before I could write. I like to tell stories, and I like to talk to things. If you]ve read fairy tales, you know that everything can talk,from trees to chairs to tables to brooms. So I grew up thinking that, and I turned it into stories.

  J. California Cooper

  Writing, Thinking, Tree

  FaceBook post by J. California Cooper from May 15, 2012

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• The broom wasn't as comforting as a flamethrower would have been, but it was better than a mop and certainly more threatening than a feather duster.

  Dean Koontz

  Comforting, Threatening, Feathers

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Forever Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.20, Bantam

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• One can imagine the government's problem. This is all pretty magical stuff to them. If I were trying to terminate the operations of a witch coven, I'd probably seize everything in sight. How would I tell the ordinary household brooms from the getaway vehicles?

  John Perry Barlow

  Government, Sight, Imagination

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• I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.

  Keith Richards

  Music, Mean, Guitar

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• A legal broom's a moral chimney-sweeper, And that's the reason he himself's so dirty

  Lord Byron

  Dirty, Moral, Reason

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• There was this big skiffle craze happening for a while in England.... Everybody was in a skiffle group..All you needed was an acoustic Guitar, a washboard with thimbles for percussion, and a tea-chest- you know, the ones they used to ship tea from India- and you just put a broom handle on it and a bit of string, and you had a bass..you only needed two chords; Jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing. And I think that's basically where i've always been at. I'm just a skiffler, you know. Now I do posh skiffle, that's all it is.

  George Harrison

  Thinking, Guitar, Two

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• There should be less talk. . . . What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Motivational, House

  1975 A Gift for God,'Carriers of Christ's Love'.

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• The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Funny, Money, Men

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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