Sweeping Quotes

161 Sweeping quotes by 150 unique authors

The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings. — Heraclitus
Some breakfast food manufacturer hit upon the simple notion of emptying out the leavings of carthorse nose bags, adding a few other things like unconsumed… — Frank Muir
It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race for life, nor his nephew, nor… — Andrew Carnegie
In my reading of philosophy, I saw that there were innumerable problems that nobody was giving answers for. the Bible, it struck me, dealt with… — Francis Schaeffer
The problem is that many of our policymakers want to base sweeping laws on those feelings. — Melissa Harris-Perry
A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph. — Benjamin Disraeli
A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every… — John Millington Synge
I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets,… — Yahoo Serious
The CIO put up half a million dollars for Roosevelt's 1936 campaign and provided him with an immense group of active labor workers who played… — John T. Flynn
Before getting to my mother's house, I would always think of her on the porch or even on the street, sweeping. She had a light… — Reinaldo Arenas
The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within it are openly… — Boyd K. Packer
The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and… — Benjamin Disraeli
It's sweeping through our society faster than crack. [Except] with crack you could say, 'These people over here are doing it, adn these people aren't.'… — Unknown Author
The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests… — Stephen Johnson Field
A broom is drearily sweeping up the broken pieces of yesterday's life. — Jimi Hendrix
I made a dollar a day sweeping a laundry out. Then we made a record that was number two in Los Angeles. We got so… — Dennis Wilson
Sweep the garden, any size, said the roshi. Sweeping, sweeping alone as the garden grows large or small. Any song sung working the garden brings… — Olga Broumas
Widely spaced earth-sheltered towns offer sweeping views over the plains. High-speed trains link the communities. Food is grown in the region. Bikeways are everywhere. Nonpolluting… — Malcolm Wells
Just as with other great words, the word environment means different things. You might say that a cave woman twenty thousand years ago sweeping out… — Pete Seeger
Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the… — Joanna Southcott
Identity politics divides us; fiction connects. One is interested in sweeping generalizations, the other in nuances. One draws boundaries, the other recognizes no frontiers. Identity… — Elif Safak
Jesus didn't mean this as a sweeping command for everyone who has a lot of money. Jesus meant this for any of us who wallow… — Lysa TerKeurst
I assemble stories-me and a hundred million other people-at the sentence level. Not by coming up with a sweeping story line. — Amy Hempel
Time is a river sweeping away all that is born towards the darkest shore. — FÃ©lix J. Palma
The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future. — Mary Catherine Bateson

Who Wrote These Sweeping Quotes

150 authors contributed a total of 161 Sweeping Quotes, led by these top contributors: