Quotes About Brooms

Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course.

Another guy barked orders to a small army of brooms, mops, and buckets that were scuttling around, cleaning up the city. Like that cartoon, Sadie said. Where Mickey Mouse tries to do magic and the brooms keep splitting and toting water. 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice,' Zia said. You do know that was based on an Egyptian story, don't you?

Beyond that door,' she indicated carelessly, 'is the laboratory. As has been said before, you may make free use of it. Caution, naturally, is advised. Moderation is particularly recommended during attempts to make brooms carry buckets of water.' Condwiramurs giggled politely, although the joke was ancient. All the lecturers regaled their charges with jokes referring to the mythical hardships of the mythical sorcerer's apprentice.

Street sweepers were pulling their wide brooms down the road and the swish of their brooms filtered through the tail-end of her dreams.

Wigs were formerly used instead of brooms in Ireland for sweeping or dusting tables, stairs, etc. The Editor doubted the fact till he saw a labourer of the old school sweep down a flight of stairs with his wig; he afterwards put it on his head again with the utmost composure, and said, 'Oh, please your honour, it's never a bit the worse.

I don't know if there's any sport that's stupid, but I really don't understand curling. I guess I'm just not into brooms on ice.

So up onto the ramparts they went, holding hoes and brooms like they were spears. You don't have to do anything, Faustinus told them, just stand there, give the impression there's somebody home. Amazingly, it worked. The enemy stopped and drew up three hundred yards from the wall, sent out scouts to ride up and down and take a good look. Which they were still doing.

I sort of took the literal term of 'The Cleaner,' and I started bringing janitorial items to the ring with me, so I took garbage bags and brooms and mops.

Ere so sober Emily/ Did New England sow/ With brooms of activity/ I'd the tree-rock spoken to.

Peacocks sweep the fairies' rooms; They use their folded tails for brooms; But fairy dust is brighter far Than any mortal colours are; And all about their tails it clings In strange designs of rounds and rings; And that is why they strut about And proudly spread their feathers out.

Cletus Busters, the custodian, trudged in, tugging behind him his cart full of brooms and mops and the bags of trash he had collected as he made his way from room to room. He parked the cart by the door and, with an air of innocence, wandered around the lab without any apparent objective in mind. "Hello, little rat," he whispered, brushing the front of one of the metal cages with his fingers.

His voice rose. "It reminds me of a room in the Château of Blois where the caretaker who was shewing me over said: 'This is where Mary Stuart used to say her prayers; I use it to keep my brooms in.' Naturally I wish to know nothing more of this house that has let itself be dishonoured