Clean Quotes

“Alec looked at her and shook his head. "How do you manage never to get mud on your clothes?"
Isabelle shrugged philosophically. "I'm pure at heart. It repels the dirt.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

“I am clumsy, drop glasses and get drunk on Monday afternoons. I read Seneca and can recite Shakespeare by heart, but I mess up the laundry, don’t answer my phone and blame the world when something goes wrong. I think I have a dream, but most of the days I’m still sleeping. The grass is cut. It smells like strawberries. Today I finished four books and cleaned my drawers.
Do you believe in a God? Can I tell you about Icarus? How he flew too close to the sun?

I want to make coming home your favourite part of the day. I want to leave tiny little words lingering in your mind, on nights when you’re far away and can’t sleep. I want to make everything around us beautiful; make small things mean a little more. Make you feel a little more. A little better, a little lighter. The coffee is warm, this cup is yours. I want to be someone you can’t live without.

I want to be someone you can’t live without.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, He loved me some days. I'm sure he did: 99 essays on growth through loss

“And though the coldness I have always felt leaves me, the numbness doesn't and probably never will. this relationship will probably lead to nothing... this didn't change anything. I imagine her smelling clean, like tea...”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn't like America where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time. ”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“Mist to mist, drops to drops. For water thou art, and unto water shalt thou return.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Angela had done a marvelous job, I tell you. The puke was everywhere except the toilet. The walls, the floor, the sinks - even on the ceiling, though don't ask me how she did that. So there I was, perched on all fours, cleaning up the puke at the homecoming dance in my best blue suit, which was exactly what I had wanted to avoid in the first place. And Jamie, my date, was on all fours, too, doing exactly the same thing.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

“Do you know how you get the urge to clean your room, and it’s no big deal? But when your mom tells you that you have to clean your room, you don't want to? That's me, anyway.”
― Bill Konigsberg, Openly Straight

“Fire is bright and fire is clean.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“No dirt can touch me, like an ocean, everything that comes to me becomes clean.”
― Debasish Mridha

“...it will be a world made not bright but brighter, not clean but cleaner.”
― Dean Koontz, Dead and Alive

“A good book is a good place to go.....
to dream!”
― Donna Lee Comer

“Before he had come to the town he had known about nothing but death: here he had learnt to live, to decide things for himself; he had learnt what it felt like to wash in clean water in the sunshine until he was clean himself, and what it felt like to satisfy his hunger with food that tasted good; he had learnt the sound of laughter that was free from cruelty; he had learnt the meaning of beauty”
― Anne Holm, I Am David

“Neatness and cleanliness is not a function of how rich or poor you are but that of mentality and principle.”
― Ikechukwu Izuakor, Great Reflections on Success

“Leave fears aside, clean tears away! Tell God "here I am, use me!" and he'll give you the assignments that will make your life a fulfilled one. Now dress up to work!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Environmental cleanliness begins with each individual desire to be clean.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Lead's erasing then vanishing
Banished from whatever it is they're drinking and it's cleaned
Running from the pitcher as if it's her fantasy”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

“I think there’s something very healthy about keeping your own cave clean. It is a good barometer of how your life is going, the state of your home. If it’s a complete tip, you’re taking on too much or depressed; if someone else has to keep it clean for you, it’s too big or you’re too busy.”
― Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

“The pure and clean won't be dirty, until the dirty touches it.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Using words with meanings pure
is a sign of cleanliness of mind,
yet if thoughts that shine, from sadness wouldn’t cure,
there no cleanliness you’d find…”
― Will Advise, На чист Български...: Pristine Bulgarian sayings...

“And he said...

...mold will grow on the cleanest of surfaces”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“A tidy government office leads to clearer minds and better service.”
― Dipti Dhakul

“The best poops clean wipe!”
― Steven Magee

“The pure does not become dirty unless it touches the dirty. The pure remains clean and the dirty remains dirty.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“...this process we're going through is not about trying to create a home where things are perfect; it's about creating a home where things are lighter.”
― Allie Casazza, Declutter Like a Mother: A Guilt-Free, No-Stress Way to Transform Your Home and Your Life

“To attempt to make myself clean is only to become dirtier in the cleaning.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The death and resurrection of Jesus didn’t scrub us clean. Rather, it purged us of everything filthy so that scrubbing was unnecessary.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Once Green
Always Clean!”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job

“The energy of all our objects transforms according to our use and handling of them. Cleanups are important not only in an aesthetic sense but also in an energetic sense. You will never delete unwanted karma from your life if you cannot delete the gross physical counterparts of it.”
― Donna Goddard, Love Matters

“Mind hygiene is as vital as hand hygiene; both keep our world cleaner.”
― Srinivas Mishra