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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• All a woman needs is a good bath, clean clothes, and for her hair to be combed. These things she can do herself. I very seldom go to the hairdresser, but when I do, I just marvel.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Hair, Clothes, Needs

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.

  Ed Koch

  Society, Neighborhood, Festering

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• The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

  Agatha Christie

  Time, Book, Memorable

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

  George Burns

  Funny, Sex, Dirty

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• My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Block, Fire

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• I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Toilets, Demeaning

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• Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.

  Stephen Ambrose

  War, Winning, Immigration

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• I was so emotional. Choked up. I could hardly talk all day. I'll be cleaning out my trailer and saying goodbye soon, realizing what a wonderful experience this has been.

  Dennis Franz

  Goodbye, Emotional, Realizing

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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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