Top 39 A Sweeper Quotes
#1. Bangladesh is a world of metaphor, of high and low theater, of great poetry and music. You talk to a rice farmer and you find a poet. You get to know a sweeper of the streets and you find a remarkable singer.
Jean Houston
#2. If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it, rather than yourself. No man sweeps his own chimney, but employs a chimney-sweeper, who has no objection to dirty work, because it is his trade.
Charles Caleb Colton
#3. For sure Tupac [Shakur]. Without a doubt. I have to have Pac at the party doing it!
Nate Burleson
#4. I'm lucky. 'Thor' has kicked off everything I'm doing, and it's been the greatest thing for me, but I am aware that I need to mix it up a bit.
Chris Hemsworth
#7. It takes more than a wise man to keep track of a foolish woman.
Minna Antrim
#8. Give the American people a good cause, and there's nothing they can't lick.
John Wayne
#9. 'The Chimney Sweeper's Boy' began differently from any previous book I'd written. It actually derives from a story a friend - the novel's dedicatee, Patrick Maher - told me.
Ruth Rendell
#10. Life is not a gift to be received, but rather, infinite gifts that we can give.
Benjamin F Sullivan
#11. Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.
Mahatma Gandhi
#12. The one ring road around the airfield is paved, but heavily rutted and potholed. Every few days a street-sweeper makes its way around, polishing the rutted surface with brushes and water.
Glenn Dean
#14. Of the paperbacks that you see at the airport, I am the most violent woman writer.
Chelsea Cain
#15. You can be anything you want to be. You can be a street sweeper, if you want. Just be the best blasted street sweeper you can be ... And, you know you can be mayor.
David Dinkins
#16. Be an artist at whatever you do. Even if you are a street sweeper, be the Michelangelo of street sweepers.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#17. Islamic terrorists are new examples of an old problem with fascism.
Bernard-Henri Levy
#18. To the lazy man the world appears bereft of all blessings; if poor, he has no friends; if rich, he has no ambition; he aims at nothing, and generally hits his mark.
James Ellis
#19. Any eyes on me - a late-night street sweeper, some dude texting in his parked car, the homeless guy talking to himself - make me feel uncomfortable when I skate. Everyone expects me to do certain things.
Rodney Mullen
#20. Handy Hint! When your friend talks about having 'a sweep', do not then visualise Dick van Dyke in his cheeky chappy chimney sweeper outfit heading up into her uterus to do a rendition of 'Step in Time'. Laughter is the inappropriate response to your friend's news.
Hadley Freeman
#21. Raptors are smart. Very smart. Believe me, all the problems we have so far are nothing compared with what we'd have if the raptors ever got out of their holding pen.
Robert Muldoon
#22. Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.
Swami Vivekananda
#23. Hello from the gutters of NYC, which is filled with dog manure, vomit, stale wine, urine,and blood. Hello from the sewers of NYC which swallow up these delicacies when they are washed away by the sweeper trucks.
David Berkowitz
#24. Eight, the number of perfection for every tetragon; four, the number of the Gospels; five, the number of the zones of the world; seven, the number of the gifts of the Holy Ghost.
Umberto Eco
#25. We take life so seriously. But at the end, the billionaire gets buried next to the street sweeper.
Robin S. Sharma
#26. A legal broom's a moral chimney-sweeper, And that's the reason he himself's so dirty
Lord Byron
#27. Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a seance.
Thomas Huxley
#28. Right preconceptions about people bring success in working with them.
Sunday Adelaja
#29. It has become more important than ever that we teach students how to do research, and how to evaluate different sources of information. (Jimmy Wales, IB World, 68, Sept. 2013, p.10. )
Jimmy Wales
#30. Malcolm X found the language that communicated across the board, from college professor to floor sweeper, all at the same time, without demeaning the intellect of either.
John Henrik Clarke
#31. The national State divides its inhabitants into three classes: State citizens, State subjects, and foreigners. It must be held in greater honour to be a citizen of this Reich even if only a crossing-sweeper, than to be a king in a foreign State.
Adolf Hitler
#32. I am very fit and by playing sweeper I can control the speed of the game.
Ruud Gullit
#33. will, when he gets here. But, boy! - I'd work for him as a cinder sweeper. He'd blast through this valley like a rocket. He'd triple everybody's production." "Who's that?" "Hank Rearden.
Ayn Rand
#34. It was a very big principle in my upbringing that you should respect everybody's work. The street sweeper. Everybody. You should never look down on anybody for their work.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#35. You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper.
Robert Alton Harris
#37. I wrote my first book in a toilet in a factory where I was a floor sweeper.
Geoff Thompson
#38. It's hard to save the world when you can't save yourself
Carrie Jones
#39. The fundamental reality for every worker, from sweeper to executive vice-president, is the eight hours or so that he spends on the job . In our society of organizations, it is the job through which the great majority has access to achievement, to fulfillment, and to community.
Peter Drucker
