Quotes About Brooms

#1. Wait, wait, wait," Breckin says, interrupting the story. "You called her Cinderella? What the hell for?"
Daniel shrugs. "We were in a janitor's closet. I didn't know her name and there were all these mops and brooms and shit and it reminded me of Cinderella, okay? Give me a break.

Colleen Hoover

#2. I'm taking Fleur on a thestral," said Bill. "She's not that fond of brooms."
Fleur walked over to stand beside him, giving him a sloppy, slavish look that Harry hoped with all his heart would never appear on his face again.

J.K. Rowling

#3. It may be difficult, but there will be times we need to pick up our brooms and do some spiritual house cleaning. It is through this process that we find our true relationships, our true heart, our core integrity, and our life's purpose.

Molly Friedenfeld

#4. Who are you calling beef-witted?" she laughed at him. "Your mother was a hamster, and your father stank of elderberries!" And away they went, whirling and stabbing with their brooms, almost dancing as they moved about the field. She

Cynthia Hand

#5. Madam Hooch then showed them how to mount their brooms without sliding off the end, and walked up and down the rows, correcting their grips. Harry and Ron were delighted when she told Malfoy he'd been doing it wrong for years.

J.K. Rowling

#6. His first two months at Brakebills spun by, and soon red and gold leaves were scattering across the Sea, as if they were being pushed by invisible brooms - which possibly they were? - and the flanks of the slow-moving topiary beasts in the Maze showed streaks of color. Quentin

Lev Grossman

#7. I was telling stories before I could write. I like to tell stories, and I like to talk to things. If you]ve read fairy tales, you know that everything can talk,from trees to chairs to tables to brooms. So I grew up thinking that, and I turned it into stories.

J. California Cooper

#8. I'd never seen a place so well appointed.
"This is too much," I said. "Much too much. I'd be more comfortable with something less fussy. Like a broom closet."
"All the broom closets are full," he said. "Of brooms.

Devon Monk

#9. Some people are in charge of pens who shouldn't be in charge of brooms.

Graham Parker

#10. I could hear hundreds of elves sweeping out my head with their tiny brooms. They kept sweeping and sweeping. It never occurred to any of them to use a dustpan.

Haruki Murakami

#11. He began to search among the infinite series of impressions which time had laid down, leaf upon leaf, fold upon fold softly, incessantly upon his brain; among scents, sounds; voices, harsh, hollow, sweet; and lights passing, and brooms tapping; and the wash and hush of the sea.

Virginia Woolf

#12. Wouldn't the world be a cleaner place if we gave blind people brooms instead of canes?

Nick Thune

#13. Viserys could not sweep a stable with ten thousand brooms.

George R R Martin

#14. Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune.

Saint Basil

#15. The copyeditor I drew was a brachycephalic, web-footed cretin who should have been in an institution learning how to make brooms.

Florence King

#16. They climbed back into the dish with brooms and scrubbing brushes and carefully swept it clean of what they referred to in a later paper as "white dielectric material," or what is known more commonly as bird shit.

Bill Bryson

#17. Sleep in my arms. Like a baby bird. Like a broom among brooms ... in a broom closet. Like a tiny parrot. Like a whistle. Like a little song. A song sung by a forest ... within a forest ... a thousand years ago.

Milan Kundera

#18. Brooms are better for sweeping than for flying," he said. "Besides, witches these days prefer airplanes. There's an in-flight snack and you arrive at your destination looking fabulous.

Z. Riddle

#19. Only brooms
Know the devil
Still exists,
That the snow grows whiter
After a crow has flown over it

Charles Simic

#20. Too bad brooms can't really fly. Now if you miss the bus you can't just go in your room and fly to school with a nimbus two thousand!

Rupert Grint

#21. One can imagine the government's problem. This is all pretty magical stuff to them. If I were trying to terminate the operations of a witch coven, I'd probably seize everything in sight. How would I tell the ordinary household brooms from the getaway vehicles?

John Perry Barlow

#22. Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course.

John Lukacs

#23. Ere so sober Emily/ Did New England sow/ With brooms of activity/ I'd the tree-rock spoken to.

Jack Kerouac

#24. I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials ... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself.

Francis Bacon

#25. In convent, I live for 4 months in a broom closet. I do not rot.

Helena

#26. Do you want to be great? Pick up a broom and sweep the floor.

Mother Teresa

#27. A new broom can sweep the floor, but an old broom knows where the dirt is.

Paul Mooney

#28. Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street, same portraits.

Minor White

#29. Get me a broom. I'll sweep my own office.

Wernher Von Braun

#30. It's not the size of the army but the power within the army.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#31. The person who sweeps the floor should choose the broom.

Howard Behar

#32. The Blessed Virgin used me like a broom, and then put me back in my place.

Bernadette Soubirous