Sweep Quotes

251 Sweep quotes by 224 unique authors

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.… — Charlaine Harris
On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds.… — Aldo Leopold
The evenings grew longer; kitchen windows stayed open after dinner and peepers could be heard in the marsh. Isabelle, stepping out to sweep her porch… — Elizabeth Strout
If you sweep a house, and tend its fires and fill its stove, and there is love in you all the years you are doing… — Truman Capote
You see, Momo... it's like this. Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly long it is and feel… — Michael Ende
Dark hair fell in a sweep over his forehead. He looked like a man who would write vers libre, as indeed he did. — P.G. Wodehouse
We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn't overwhelm… — Robert Frost
The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world. That wide grey sweep was the lawn, with the straggling trees of the orchard still dark… — Susan Cooper
Now, bitterly, with one sweep of the front door, the compassion was spent. To the degree that Lawrence's face was familiar, it was killingly so… — Lionel Shriver
His brow is seamed with line and scar; His cheek is red and dark as wine; The fires as of a Northern star Beneath his… — Walter de La Mare
I spent uncounted hours sitting at the bow looking at the water and the sky, studying each wave, different from the last, seeing how it… — Gary Paulsen
She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him… — P.G. Wodehouse
Obstinate are the trammels, but my heart aches when I try to break them. Freedom is all I want, but to hope for it I… — Rabindranath Tagore
It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars,… — Madeleine L'Engle
It was like that. Sometimes I'd go for a periodâ€”days or weeksâ€”without feeling the full sweep of my loss, and then as unexpected as a… — Bette Greene
Bare heights of loneliness...a wilderness whose burning winds sweep over glowing sands, what are they to HIM? Even there He can refresh us, even there… — Amy Carmichael
I wished that the chains would break and the wind would sweep me up, up, up into the sky, beyond the clouds, beyond the sun… — Mary Downing Hahn
Nick, fetch my car, fetch my clothes, sweep the chimney, make my bed, watch my psychopath, fetch my slippers. — Sherrilyn Kenyon
If I had my way," Dionysus said, "I would cause your molecules to erupt in flames. We'd sweep up the ashes and be done with… — Rick Riordan
I defy you to try it, Princess. Go ahead. I donâ€™t even know how to sweep a floor. All I know how to do is… — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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