You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances…

You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper.

— Robert Alton Harris

Fear no more the heat o' th' sun Nor the furious winters' rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en…

— William Shakespeare

Some critics are like chimney-sweepers; they put out the fire below, and frighten the swallows from their nests above; they scrape a long time…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Golden lads and girls all must as chimney sweepers come to dust.

— William Shakespeare

Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I wrote my first book in a toilet in a factory where I was a floor sweeper.

— Geoff Thompson

Malcolm X found the language that communicated across the board, from college professor to floor sweeper, all at the same time, without demeaning the…

— John Henrik Clarke

You can be anything you want to be. You can be a street sweeper, if you want. Just be the best blasted street sweeper…

— David Dinkins

The only good that I can see in the demonstration of the truth of "Spiritualism" is to furnish an additional argument against suicide. Better…

— Thomas Huxley

It's a battered old suitcase and a hotel someplace and a wound that will never heal.

— Tom Waits

Cleaning up the country cannot be the sole responsibility of sweepers. Do citizens have no role in this? We have to change this mindset.

— Narendra Modi

The national State divides its inhabitants into three classes: State citizens, State subjects, and foreigners. It must be held in greater honour to be…

— Adolf Hitler

Any eyes on me - a late-night street sweeper, some dude texting in his parked car, the homeless guy talking to himself - make…

— Rodney Mullen

I am very fit and by playing sweeper I can control the speed of the game.

— Ruud Gullit

“All of yesterday's ballers are today's road sweepers.”

— Habeeb Akande