65 Cleaning Quotes On Success In Life
These cleaning quotes will inspire you. Cleaning is the process of removing unwanted substances, such as dirt, infectious agents, and other impurities, from an object or environment. Cleaning occurs in many different contexts and uses many different methods. Several occupations are devoted to cleaning.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging cleaning quotes, cleaning sayings, and cleaning proverbs.
Best Cleaning Quotes
- “Clean up your own mess.” ~ Robert Fulghum
- “I’ve tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.” ~ Elvis Presley
- “Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.” ~ Phyllis Diller
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“No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic.” ~ Ann Landers
- “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
- “Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “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
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“Excuse the mess but we live here.” ~ Roseanne Barr
- “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
- “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
- “You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.” ~ Ellen Swallow Richards
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“Housekeeping ain’t no joke.” ~ Louisa May Alcott
- “The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output.” ~ Buffy Sainte-Marie
- “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 , Cleaning quotes for work
- “I love cleaning, weird but true. It really relaxes me.” ~ Jessie J
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“My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.” ~ Bette Midler
- “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
- “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
- “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
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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
- “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
- “Fuel cell vehicles run on clean-burning hydrogen and are three times more efficient than the traditional combustible engine.” ~ Albert Wynn
- “When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!” ~ Dennis Weaver
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“Did you know babies are nauseated by the smell of a clean shirt?” ~ Jeff Foxworthy
- “The meals were served in a large hall, in which Moctezuma was accustomed to eat, and the dishes quite filled the room, which was covered with mats and kept very clean.” ~ Hernando Cortes
- “The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.” ~ Dixie Lee Ray
- “The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.” ~ Thomas Hobbes
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“The circuit training program along with a healthy clean diet is the way to excellent results.” ~ Lee Haney
- “Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.” ~ Nadia Boulanger
- “There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Some of us are like a shovel brigade that follow a parade down Main Street cleaning up.” ~ Donald T. Regan
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“Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets.” ~ Klaus Kinski
- “Just as there’s garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.” ~ Pat Buchanan
- “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
- “When I was a kid a growing up in Ontario, Canada, Lake Erie was so polluted, I never thought it would ever, EVER be turned around where they could start cleaning it out in my lifetime!” ~ Rick Danko
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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
- “I’ve met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can’t see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves… only about you.” ~ Jean Shepherd
- “I’ve always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.” ~ Francois Truffaut
- “My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.” ~ David Dinkins
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“Of course I was delighted the flight was over, but I still had to worry about cleaning up inside the cabin, I had to worry about the hatch, how to get in the sling, and so on.” ~ Alan Shepard
- “There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. You’re cleaning up vomit and it’s 2 in the morning, and you’re wishing there was somebody else there to help you.” ~ Meg Tilly
- “I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms.” ~ Ann Romney
- “In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We’re still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.” ~ Laura Miller
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“A great thing about these trees is that they are excellent for cleaning, both groundwater, and of course, air.” ~ Mike Lowry
- “Superfund was passed with the good intention of cleaning up America’s toxic waste sites” ~ Fred Thompson
- “Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of the recovery. Because those green dollars are the hardest working dollars in the history of American politics. That same dollar that is being used to cut energy bills, is also cutting global warming gas emissions, is also cutting unemployment, is also cutting poverty, through retrofits it’s also raising the value of homes, is also by cleaning the air, cutting asthma rates.” ~ Van Jones , Cleaning quotes for home
- “It’s meant to reaffirm the validity of that music – clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.” ~ Dwight Yoakam
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“It’s very clean. With tape, you get noise.” ~ Herb Alpert
- “I can’t write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.” ~ Patricia Highsmith
- “I started my own little carpet and upholstery cleaning business. I’ve done it for 20 years. I live well” ~ Tommy Kirk
- “I am just a nice, clean-cut Mongolian boy.” ~ Yul Brynner , Cleaning quotes for business
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“At least I’m going into the job with clean hands.” ~ Pete Rozelle
- “The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand.” ~ William Dampier
- “I visited those friends who’d just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut” ~ Josh Lucas
- “I started making some proper decisions, getting things in order. It’s kind of like cleaning up your house. I was looking for direction for what God wanted me to do – and that’s when I got a call about The Passion.” ~ Scott Stapp
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“I’m eighteen years behind in my ironing. There’s no use doing it now, it doesn’t fit anybody I know.” ~ Phyllis Diller
- “There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.” ~ Fiorello H. La Guardia
- “I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I’d bet I wouldn’t lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.” ~ Berkeley Breathed
- “I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you’re going to be lazy.” ~ Shirley Conran
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“Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.” ~ Ann Oakley
- “The best time to plan a book is while you’re doing the dishes.” ~ Agatha Christie
- “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
- “Slash sat me down at his house and said, You’ve got to clean up your act. You know you’ve gone too far when Slash is saying, Look, you’ve got to get into rehab.” ~ Charlie Sheen
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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
- “I’d find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.” ~ Jack Kevorkian
