Top 14 Chimney Sweepers Quotes
#1. Fear no more the heat o' the sun
Nor the furious winter's rages,
Thou thy worldly task hast done,
Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages;
Golden lads and girls all must
As chimney sweepers come to dust
Pierce Brown
#2. Some critics are like chimney-sweepers; they put out the fire below, and frighten the swallows from their nests above; they scrape a long time in the chimney, cover themselves with soot, and bring nothing away but a bag of cinders, and then sing from the top of the house as if they had built it.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#3. In 1788, the Chimney Sweepers Act was passed in Parliament, preventing master sweeps from employing children under eight (children over eight were allowed to be apprenticed).
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#4. The idea that He would take his attention away from the universe in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds is just so unlikely I can't go along with it.
Quentin Crisp
#5. But for the poor of a country where corruption thieved a great deal of opportunity, corruption was one of the genuine opportunities that remained. As
Katherine Boo
#7. I am a cemetery abhorred by the moon, In which long worms crawl like remorse.
Charles Baudelaire
#8. There's only one music video that had an emotional impact on me, and that's 'Hurt' by Johnny Cash. That's exceptional. There is no music video I can think of apart from that one that really reaches you inside.
Anton Corbijn
#9. The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.
Celia Green
#10. Babies, babies, babies. Why did God make so many babies? But no, God didn't make them. Stupid people made them.
Margaret Mitchell
#11. I got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn't ready. I just knew if I committed, I would've wound up doing something wrong, messing it up. I still felt like I had some living to do.
Queen Latifah
#12. But round your image
there is no fog, and the Earth
can still astonish.
W. H. Auden
#13. It's the same as Keith Richards. People still ask him the same questions they asked him 30 years ago, even though he's a completely different person. And I'm a completely different person than I was 15 years ago.
Scott Weiland
