Best 103 quotes in «cleanliness quotes» category

We all clean a lot of things as we go through life. We clean our clothes and wear them over our unclean hearts. We wash our hands and leave our souls untouched. We pour water on our heads and as it drips down to our feet, it cleans the dirt off our skin. But we leave our thoughts and words out of this cleanliness.

Whoever purifies his soul shall be clean.

What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture, or fatherhood until a second such face is born. Her face, at once innocent and feral, soft and wild! Her mouth voluptuous. Eyes deep as oceans, her eyes as wide as planets. I likened her to the slender Psyché and judged that the perfection of her face ennobled everything unclean around her: the dusty hems of her bunched-up skirt, the worn straps of her nightshirt; the blackened soles of her tiny bare feet, the coal-stained balcony bricks upon which she sat, and that dusty wrought-ironwork that framed her perch. All this and the pungent air!—almost foul, with so many odors. Ô, that and the spicy night! …Pungency, spice, filth and night, dust and light; all things dark did blossom in sight; flower and bloom, the night has its pearl too—the moon! And once a month it will make the face of this tender girl bloom.

When God created us, he founded His living nature for our home; But you sit in this gloom, surrounded By mildred skull and arid bone.

Where is the culture of cleanliness?

We must experience Heaven on earth; May your homes, surroundings and work places portray a safe clean environment.

We ought to live heaven on earth, clean environment, the beauty of blissful realms.

When we reconnect with nature, we will be restore ourselves.

Americans deserve both clean air and clean water and never one at the expense of the other.

You wash your hands, don't you?" Bayley's eyes dropped to his hands. They were as clean as need be. "Yes," he said. "All right. I suppose it's a measure of instability to feel such revulsion at dirty hands as to be unable to clean an oily mechanism by hand even in a emergency. Still, in the ordinary course of living, the revulsion keeps you clean, which is good.

A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean.

You have a responsibility to keep your homes, surroundings and city clean.

All will come out in the washing.

Cleanliness drive is something that has touched every Indian.

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

Cleanliness is a state of purity, clarity, and precision

Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind.

Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood.

But I never cleaned thoroughly enough, my reorganization proved to be haphazard, the disgraces came unfailingly to light, and it was clear how we failed, how disastrously we fell short of that ideal of order and cleanliness, household decency which I as much as anybody else believed in.

Cleanliness is the Hallmark of perfect standards and the best quality inspector is the conscience

Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.

Fantasies have to remain dirty. Cleanliness, scrupulousness and rationality are poison for eroticism.

Feverishly we cleared away the remaining last scraps of rubbish on the floor of the passage before the doorway, until we had only the clean sealed doorway before us.

He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.

I'd like to do a television show that is encouraging, useful, and clean, and I'd like to go up against Entertainment Tonight and beat it.

If truth were told, most of us spend longer each day on personal cleanliness than on practical godliness.

I get strangely obsessed about the cleanliness of my house.

I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.

I'm known clean around the Earth.

I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.

For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

God loveth the clean.

I take pride in whatever I do. If you told me to clean the room up, I'd clean it up real good.

It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness.

I would like to sit still for a while but I'm restless you know and sitting still is only an ideal like celibacy and complete cleanliness.

Krishna insisted on outer cleanliness and inner cleansing. Clean clothes and clean minds are an ideal combination.

Let's clean up the Senate and return to politics of common ground.

Man and other civilized animals are the only creatures that ever become dirty.

Morality, like physical cleanliness, is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of constant watchfulness and discipline.

Our Quakers love us. We're big with the Quakers. It's all about cleanliness.

In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.

Markets always change, and as soon as there's downturn, cleanliness becomes a major value.

No one really likes Switzerland, except those who prefer cleanliness to life.

So, I gained a little..weight, .. Big deal. Clean and sober.

The Clean Michigan Initiative has been and continues to be a success.

The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.

There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery, and vice. They are regarded as more authentic, and certainly more exciting, than cleanliness, happiness, and virtue.

Those who feel they are clean, go ahead and throw the first rock. If you're clean, if you have not done anything wrong or been accused of anything wrong, go ahead and start the show.