God loves cleanliness.The environment must be kept clean.

Eric moved the broom experimentally and made an attempt to sweep the glass into the pan while it lay in the middle of the floor. Of course, the pan slid away. Eric scowled.I’d finally found...

At det var synddag betød også, at Satinas far var hjemme. Og det betød, at hele huset emmede af sådan et raseri, at man næsten kunne lugte det. Sortehorn befandt sig ude på badeværelset, og...

There is an easy way of finding the job to be done today, just look around your environment; take note of the places that need cleaning and the places that need decoration; do one at...

There is a certain loveliness, I think, to performing deep cleaning in one’s underwear on a beautiful summer day.

When cleaning I do it the way people go to church—not so much to discover anything new, although I’m alert for new things, but mainly to reacquaint myself with the familiar. It’s nice to go...

I have a container full of yelling I keep in my kitchen. It makes a great cleaning product, as it’s wonderfully abrasive.

Marathon tidying produces a heap of garbage. At this stage, the one disaster that can wreak more havoc than an earthquake is the entrance of that recycling expert who goes by the alias of “mother.

There is, in fact, no safeword for chemical burns under one’s fingernails.

She was a woman with a broom or a dust-pan or a washrag or a mixing spoon in her hand. You sawher cutting piecrust in the morning, humming to it, or yousaw her setting out...

I mop my floor with a wet cloud. My love tissues are full of eye rain. Dinner will be served at breakfast.

Women with clean houses do not have finished books.

I was not merely cleaning an oven; I was improving the world.

Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.

When you’re on your deathbed, you won’t regret not having spent more time cleaning. Buy brown carpet, to camouflage the coffee stains.

The house was clean, scrubbed and immaculate, curtains washed, windows polished, but all as a man does it – the ironed curtains did not hang quite straight and there were streaks on the windows and...

…I have to go home and get a few things done. If I don’t get out the Pledge soon, the dust bunnies are going to be leaving tracks on my furniture…

DETOX your mind, body, AND your contact list.

Meatloaf is graphable in how far ahead it is in likeability categories. You can also play Mop the Floor with it. I make love like I make dinner that makes cleaning the kitchen more fun...

We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself – your own house – which we never do.

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

Time cleaning was less time reading, so I usually just did the minimal amount, and left it for another day, a day that would never come.

TIME WENT ON, life with the children unfolding in its own ecosystem, small plastic toys seeming to grow up from the carpet like mushrooms, clothes falling to the floor like autumn leaves. Every once in...

care for your body as you care for your home, and care for your home as you care for your body.

There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.

Excuse the mess, but we live here.

When you break something, is your first impulse to throw it away? Or do you repair it but feel a sadness because it is no longer “perfect”? Whatever the case, you might want to consider...

I don’t like people cleaning my room.

Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady.

As I would soon learn myself, cleaning up what a parent leaves behind stirs up dust, both literal and metaphorical. It dredges up memories. You feel like you’re a kid again, poking around in your...

It’s not the nineteenth century; I’m not meant to be judged on how good a housekeeper I am. Getting down on the floor with a lemon and a bucket of vinegar does not make me...

Oh, I just think that a neat house is the sign of a boring person, that’s all. And I don’t really like to associate with boring people if I can help it.

A beer bottle on a stick, like a broom, is less for cleaning and more for distance drinking. My floor is so filthy I’ll drink twelve.

Respect me; I’m a respectable grown-up!” and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.

Silence is nonfunctional and yet a functional way of cleaning the garbage in our minds.

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.

If you don’t smell good, then you don’t look good.

The combination of ammonia and chloride can be lethal but I’ve discovered it can work miracles as long as you keep telling yourself, “I want to love, I want to live…

But can’t you just wave your hand and make all the dirt fly away, then?” […]”That works, but only if you wave them about on the floor with a scrubbing brush.

I’m going through an evolution. I’m completely cleaning out my closet. I’m purging, because I saw that show ‘Hoarders.’ I had a sweatshirt from sixth grade, and I’m going, ‘Why do I hold on to...

Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

Instead of communicating “I love you, so let me make life easy for you,” I decided that my message needed to be something more along these lines: “I love you. I believe in you. I...

The sweeper of the street is a leader in his own respect provided he does his job well with all love, diligence and attention than anyone would do when given the same broom sticks.

A man thinks all dust stays outdoors.