Sweeping Quotes

• Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger.

  Joanna Southcott

  Father, Anger, Night

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• My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

  Erma Bombeck

  Ideas, Rooms, Cleaning

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• All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Assertion

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.136

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• Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this.

  Peter Agre

  School, Epidemics, Asia

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• The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich; a war growing in intensity and bitterness.

  Stephen Johnson Field

  Money, War, Political

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• I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country.

  John Burns

  Country, Depressing, Brutality

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• There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work.

  Debbie Allen

  Moving, Scene, Masters

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• When there's a terrible illness like AIDS sweeping through, you help people.

  Bernadette Peters

  People, Hiv, Helping

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

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• A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves.

  John Millington Synge

  Journey, Hiking, Islands

  John Millington Synge (2008). “The Aran Islands and Connemara”, p.39, Mercier Press Ltd

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• I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears.

  James Herriot

  Morning, Spring, Wind

  James Herriot (2011). “Every Living Thing”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get on to a record.

  Teddy Wilson

  Symphony, Orchestra, Sound

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• You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.

  Billy Sunday

  Fall, Land, Trying

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• I do chores around the house, but I don't get an allowance for them. I wash the dishes and sweep the floor... I'm sweeping the floor quite a lot, and my mum always expects me to get a broom and swagger it across the floor all the time.

  Callan McAuliffe

  House, Swagger, Allowance

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• Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise.

  Frank Langella

  Sexy, Horse, Men

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• On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government.

  Kim Campbell

  Government, Reform, Canada

  Address at Progressive Conservative Brunch in Montreal, Quebec, www.canadahistory.com. August 22, 1993.

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• I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration.

  Yahoo Serious

  Ideas, Giving, Creative

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.

  Barry Commoner

  War, Technology, Profound

  Interview with Alan Hall, June 23, 1997.

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• The chance that higher life forms might have emerged through evolutionary processes is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the material therein.

  Fred Hoyle

  Origin Of Life, Boeing 747, Junk

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• My first job was in sixth grade, sweeping the clay tennis courts at the yacht club near my house, which I was not a member of. Always had to pay my own rent. But I don't really have any concept of how money works. I don't know how much things cost. Like a BMW. Or a quart of milk. It's embarrassing.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Jobs, Bmw, Tennis

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

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• The CIO put up half a million dollars for Roosevelt's 1936 campaign and provided him with an immense group of active labor workers who played a large part in the sweeping victory he won at the polls.

  John T. Flynn

  Victory, Groups, Dollars

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• I made a dollar a day sweeping a laundry out. Then we made a record that was number two in Los Angeles. We got so excited hearing it on the radio that Carl threw up.

  Dennis Wilson

  Two, Numbers, Dollars

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• Love is sweeping the country.

  Ira Gershwin

  Music, Country, Love Is

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• Dancing through life Swaying and sweeping And always keeping cool Life is faught less When you're thoughtless Those who don't try Never look foolish Dancing through life Mindless and careless Make sure you're where less Trouble is rife Woes are fleeting Blows are glancing When you're dancing Through life.

  Stephen Schwartz

  Blow, Dancing, Trying

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• I think honesty is the ultimate liberation in life. People want to shy away from the truth and keep sweeping it under the rug. But after a while, you pick up the rug and there's just way too much dirt, so you might as well
  just be up front about it.

  Rihanna

  Honesty, Thinking, People

  "Rihanna Talks: This is My Story". Interview with Logan Hill, www.glamour.com. August 1, 2011.

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• Time is a kind of river, an irresistible flood sweeping up men and events and carrying them headlong, one after the other, to the great sea of being.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Sea, Rivers

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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