Quotes About Cleanliness

There's a level of immaturity to people who just can't clean up after themselves.

We would like to think that when we take a shower, shampoo our hair, or apply makeup, we are doing so without inflicting harm to ourselves. Being clean and pretty should not oblige us to increase our risk of cancer.

pensaba que la higiene era, en una panadería, «más importante que la sal».

I now know that if I don't want to live in a mess, I need to pray to God for the willingness, courage, and motivation to clean up my own mess.

I like things clean, and I have a biannual clean-out of my apartment. I throw out raggedy things and things I never wear, and there's a Goodwill around the corner for anything worthwhile.

The holy land was supposed to be spotless, a serious equivalent of Disneyland in which not a single candy wrapper is to stay on the ground for more than a few minutes.

I try my best to keep the house looking clean, but honestly, with four kids, you can find plenty of messes. I don't have a special technique other than I can't focus when the house is a wreck, so cleaning is therapeutic for me. That works in my favor sometimes.

DON'T PUT THINGS DOWN; PUT THINGS AWAY.

eliminating clutter would cut down the amount of housework in the average home by 40 percent.

I cleaned out my fridge, and now I feel like I can change careers!

I was always incredibly obsessed with germs and cleaning and taking shower after shower after shower. Even when I was very young, I wouldn't tie my shoelaces because they had touched the ground. I had continuous repetitive thoughts that I couldn't get past. As a child, my mind was a lot busier than I was.

I love to feel clean. Whenever I was touring and doing shows, the minute I was done, I would immediately shower, take off all my makeup, and put on my PJs.

If you grasp the bathroom door handle to exit without using a paper towel, you're right back where you started, with who-knows-whose germs on your hands.

I'm always in a hotel room, and I spend a good portion of my day setting it up so it's comfortable for me. Whether that means making paths out of towels so I don't touch the carpet or removing the comforters or just not touching things. Even sitting on a plane with a bunch of other people - it's really hard for me.

I was a little bit of a slob who was sort of surrounded by dirty laundry. I can trace the exact moment that I became a tidy human being, and that moment was the day my son Sam was born.

To be a good Briton, a man must trade profitably, marry respectably, live cleanly, avoid excess, revere the established order, and wear his heart in his breeches pocket or anywhere but on his sleeve.

Do we dress with dignity, with a reflection of beauty? The entire world is wearing blue jeans and a black tee shirt. A banal sameness has covered us like wings of a black bird. Do we dress as if we were to meet Mevlana Jalauddin? Is our house clean, prepared for the possibility of a visit from Mevlana?

I'll be washed and ironed. I'll be washed and ironed and starched.

If you sprinkle when you tinkle please be neat and wipe the seat.

I swear dust wouldn't have the nerve to land on their floors or counters.

My father had always said there are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and lots of soap and water. After that, what he needs most is some intelligent neglect.

As chaste as unsunned snow.

We give our intent to love and meekness, by the working of mercy and grace we are made all fair and clean.

Hilary saw life as tending always toward chaos when it seemed that all one could be asked was just to keep the ashtrays clean, the bed made, the wastebaskets emptied, as if one never got to the real things because of the constant exhausting battle to keep ordinary life from falling apart.