#cleaning

The cleaning is something I use as a reward if I get some work done. I go into a very happy state of mind when I'm vacuuming. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#done #get #go #happy #i

Some of us are like a shovel brigade that follow a parade down Main Street cleaning up. ↗

— Donald T. Regan

#cleaning #down #follow #like #main

The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output. ↗

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

#by the time #cleaning #i #out #output

Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#ethnic #help #immigrants #more #our

Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now. ↗

— Rick Perry

#big government #champions #cleaning #conservatives #desks

I'm always happy when I'm cleaning, and besides, I had just found out that I was going to have a baby. ↗

— Peggy Lee

#baby #besides #cleaning #found #going

Give me the benefit of your assistance during those ablutions that neccessarily, though unfortunatly, invariably follow the excercise of the culinary art. ↗

— Elizabeth Goudge

#culinary #art

I can't make Pa change and be neat, so I'll have to change and be dirty. Been peace in this house ever since. ↗

— Ma Kettle

#humor #change

As I would soon learn myself, cleaning up what a parent leaves behind stirs up dust, both literal and metaphorical. It dredges up memories. You feel like you’re a kid again, poking around in your parents’ closet, only this time there’s no chance of getting in trouble, so you don’t have to be so sure that everything gets put back exactly where it was before you did your poking around. Still, you hope to find something, or maybe you fear finding something, that will completely change your conception of the parent you thought you knew. ↗

— Roz Chast

#cleaning #death #mourning #parents #perception

Instead of communicating "I love you, so let me make life easy for you," I decided that my message needed to be something more along these lines: "I love you. I believe in you. I know what you're capable of. So I'm going to make you work. ↗

— Kay Wills Wyma

#entitlement #kids #parenting #work #communication