#cleaning

TIME WENT ON, life with the children unfolding in its own ecosystem, small plastic toys seeming to grow up from the carpet like mushrooms, clothes falling to the floor like autumn leaves. Every once in a while she would blaze through the house and clean everything--at which point, the process would start all over. ↗

— Erica Bauermeister

#cleaning #nature-of-things #toys #life

The house was clean, scrubbed and immaculate, curtains washed, windows polished, but all as a man does it - the ironed curtains did not hang quite straight and there were streaks on the windows and a square showed on the table when a book was moved. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#house #men #men

When you make something, cleaning it out of structural debris is one of the most vital things you do. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#debris #make #most #out #something

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

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

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