Sweep Quotes

251 Sweep quotes by 224 unique authors

If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to — Phillips Brooks
The birds that wake the morning, and those that love the shade; The winds that sweep the mountain or lull the drowsy glade; The Sun… — Reginald Heber
My daddy's face is a study. Winter moves into it and presides there. His eyes become a cliff of snow threatening to avalanche, his eyebrows… — Toni Morrison
Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that we are; oh,… — Thomas Carlyle
As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay. — William Wordsworth
My favorite novel is 'To Kill a Mockingbird' because of its broad sweep, its tackling of big issues in ways that even young minds can… — Ridley Pearson
I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current. — K D Lang
As a girl, I used to zip myself into a snowsuit, fall into the deepest snowdrift I could find and sweep my arms and legs… — Danielle Trussoni
Even the pictures I was doing at college - a little narrative based on a butterfly catcher, or a chimney sweep - the images were… — Tim Walker
As anger is a passing storm, so it comes not gradually and with signs, but like a sudden sweep of wind or black squall. — James Vila Blake
Tape allows for a clean sweep of data that simply doesn't need to be on any form of disk but still needs to be kept.… — George Arthur Crump
In the deadly sweep Of every wave, A thousand dangers lie in wait. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a lot in academia,… — Jon Ronson
Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug. — Bill Condon
Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be… — Augustus William Hare
Some people are a natural administrator. They actually enjoy doing it. I find it a chore. I'm not a details person. I go for the… — Peter Hollingworth
You can just sweep the floor generally and gain nothing from it. Or you can figure out the best way to sweep the floor, put… — Frederick Lenz
There is no life and there is no death. Life and death are moving shadows cast upon the ground by clouds that sweep across the… — Frederick Lenz
Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political overlords… — Thomas Sowell
Do not consider any act of service as demeaning. Sweeping the streets, for example, is not below your dignity. Do you not sweep the floor… — Sathya Sai Baba

Who Wrote These Sweep Quotes

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