#cleaning

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

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

Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#inspirational #perfection #writing #inspirational

When someone hands you a broom, get a few buckets of paint. That is how a janitor becomes an impressionist. If the 19th century French style could improve upon nature, it can make your floor look clean. ↗

— Bauvard

#brooms #cleaning #custodians #funny #humor

I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#else #even #house #i #someone

I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps... It just feels right. ↗

— David Hobson

#cleaning #down #enjoy #feels #garden

Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#cleaning #his #income #lady #pays

My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people. ↗

— David Dinkins

#cleaning #cooking #grandmother #here #mother