Cleaning Quotes

• At first, we lived in very, very small places... with my mom cleaning houses and scrounging up just enough to keep us in town with a working car. She introduced me to my first agent, and I started with stand-in work, then eventually commercials and television guest-shots.

  

  Keith Coogan
  • Work
  • Small
  • Mom

• 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
  • Important
  • House
  • Cleaning

• If I get writer's block - this is going to sound funny - I take a shower. Something about the water feels like I'm cleaning my brain as well as my body.

  

  Julia Carin Cavazos
  • Funny
  • Water
  • Brain

• Female influence came from my grandmother and my aunt. They would sing Corsican love songs while cleaning the house and dress all in black and say melodramatic things like: 'I want to die.'

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Love
  • House
  • Black

• In some cases, it's not just about cleaning up the factories. It's about cleaning up the nearby rivers and lakes that have been tainted with heavy metals.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Up
  • Just
  • Rivers

• If you want to get rid of stuff, you can always do a good spring-cleaning. Or you can do what I do. Move.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • Good
  • Spring
  • Cleaning

• Across much of the developing world, by the time she is 12, a girl is tending house, cooking, cleaning. She eats what's left after the men and boys have eaten; she is less likely to be vaccinated, to see a doctor, to attend school.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Time
  • School
  • House

• My first job was cleaning sheep pens.

  

  Brian Sandoval
  • Job
  • Cleaning

• Everyone has something that they desperately need that makes them feel good, that they don't want anything to get in the way of. Whether it's a man's golf game, whether it's a woman's cooking. I have a friend who has to clean. She's addicted to cleaning.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Good
  • She
  • Game

• Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Why
  • Hate

• People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Done
  • May

• I raised my sister. I was six when she was born. My mother had to make a living for herself and it was very hard, so I was looking after my sister, cooking and cleaning, and she had four jobs.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • She
  • Mother
  • Sister

• Oh! Women can never forgive me. They hate me, they can feel that I ‘m disarming them. I show them without their coquetry, in the states of animals cleaning themselves... ...I'm sure of it; they see me as the enemy. Fortunately, since if they did like me, that would be the end of me.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Women
  • Hate
  • Enemy

• At 17, I went away to Pau in the south of France for a few months to study domestic science - including cleaning windows with newspaper and water - while living with a Catholic family with 10 children.

  

  Mary Berry
  • Children
  • Family
  • Science

• I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Different
  • Science
  • Hands

• What's the point of cleaning up your act if you don't have an act?

  

  Martin Mull
  • Up
  • Ifs
  • Cleaning Up

• It wasn't long ago I was cleaning toilets and now I have protestors. How cool is this?

  

  William P. Young
  • Long
  • Cleaning
  • Toilets

• On my own or with a friend, I'm a shopaholic, and I particularly love the cleaning aisle in the supermarket. But when I'm with my husband, I'm shop shy because he can't bear it. It always ends up with us making a huge scene on the High Street and then going off in a huff in separate directions.

  

  Emilia Fox
  • Up
  • High
  • Friend

• I love doing the dishes... not for the act of cleaning but because I get to put my headphones in, listen to music, and ignore the world for an hour, and it's totally acceptable because I'm cleaning.

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • World
  • Music
  • Love

• I started at an agency called Intertalent. You copy scripts, you pick up people's dry cleaning, you take their dogs to the vet, you deliver packages, you do whatever they want you to do.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• I was always pretty ambitious, although it probably helps that I can't do anything else - apart from cleaning lavatories. But I remember my mum once said, 'I suppose you'll give it a year and see if you can make it as an actress?' And I said, 'No Mum, I think I'll give it 10.'

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Pretty

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

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Find
  • Cleaning
  • Demeaning

• When you make something, cleaning it out of structural debris is one of the most vital things you do.

  

  Christopher Alexander
  • Cleaning

• Demetrie came to wait on my grandmother in 1955 and stayed for 32 years. It was common, in Mississippi, to have a black domestic cleaning the kitchen, cooking the meals, looking after the white children.

  

  Kathryn Stockett
  • Children
  • Black
  • Cooking

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