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Quotes About Cleanliness

There is nothing more wonderful than feeling head-to-toe clean after you've been filthy, having a comfortable bed with clean sheets, being able to sleep in it in safety.
~ Charlaine Harris
A place isn't really yours until you clean it.
~ Charlaine Harris
I'm not a clean freak. My house is a mess.
~ Kate Walsh
I don't like to see mess.
~ Anastasia Soare
I hate a mess.
~ John Daly
I know I can cook, but the place where I cook... it's a mess! I'm very disorganized.
~ Paula Deen
One-pot meals make a lot of sense... because so much of what people hate about cooking is really the cleanup, the mess, the grease.
~ Tom Douglas
I hate mess. I have the worst OCD so I'm not a hoarder of clothes.
~ Jonas Blue
I hate a messy closet. I totally freak out when my closet is messy and I can't find anything.
~ Kiernan Shipka
All of cleanliness is neither embraced nor denied by the taking of cold baths.
~ Kathleen Norris
As for laundry, I might characterize it as approaching the moral realm; there are days when it seems a miracle to be able to make dirty things clean.
~ Kathleen Norris
Because I'm always away, coming home to a clean house means a lot to me. Trust me, I've lived with a lot of roommates, and straight guys are just kids who don't pick up after themselves.
~ Kellan Lutz
Willie saw that the barn had been swept clean. The spiderwebs had been cleaned from the windows. Even the mammoth one between the post and the overhead beam was gone. Marla didn't like spiderwebs any better than she liked him, Willie decided.
~ C.S. Adler
This is the way in which we transact the public business of the Nation," a New York newspaper had recently complained. "No man has the slightest chance of securing the smallest place because of his fitness for it.… If your streets are so unclean to-day as to threaten a pestilence, it is because those in charge were appointed through political influence, with no regard to their capacity to work.
~ Candice Millard
[Nietzsche] attributes to himself an extremely vivid and sensitive instinct of cleanliness. At the first contact the filth lying at the base of anothers nature is revealed to him. The unclean are therefore ill at ease hi his presence.
~ Georg Morris Cohen Brandes
Jack sheathed his knife, tied the dressed hare to a stick, and slung it over his shoulder. It wouldn't do for the meat to touch his school uniform. Might make the kill dirty.
~ Ilona Andrews
You wash your hands, don't you? Bayley's eyes dropped to his hands. They were as clean as need be. Yes, he said. All right. I suppose it's a measure of instability to feel such revulsion at dirty hands as to be unable to clean an oily mechanism by hand even in a emergency. Still, in the ordinary course of living, the revulsion keeps you clean, which is good.
~ Isaac Asimov
Kill us in the clear light on the Moon, where the sky is black and soft, where the stars shine brightly, where the cleanliness and purity of vacuum make all things sharp. - Not in this low-clinging, fuzzy blue.
~ Isaac Asimov
We are all born happy. Life gets us dirty along the way, but we can clean it up. Happiness is not exuberant or noisy, like pleasure or joy; it's silent, tranquil, and gentle; it's a feeling of satisfaction inside that begins with self-love.
~ Isabel Allende
Creyeron que los militares iban a «limpiar» el país. «Se terminó la delincuencia, no hay muros pintarrajeados con graffiti, todo está limpio y gracias al toque de queda los maridos llegan temprano a la casa», me dijo una amiga.
~ Isabel Allende
Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness."
~ John Wesley
Morality, like physical cleanliness, is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of constant watchfulness and discipline.
~ Victoria Ocampo
There's cleanliness to how I eat now. I'm much more in tune with my body, so now that I'm so in tune based on having become a semivegan, I can tell what foods affect energy levels. I can tell when I've been eating particularly high nutrient foods or I can tell when my glycemic levels are all over the place.
~ Alanis Morissette
Ever since I've ever heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise - as clean as possible, anyway, and more or less tuned to people. Something they could understand, something that was beautiful, you know?
~ Charlie Parker