Top 100 Wash Quotes
#1. Her tiny hand gripped mine with a surprising warmth, and in a shocking wash of emotion, I felt everything I knew shift. The scent of cinnamon and baby powder hit me, and as my eyes widened, my heart melted, making room for her.
Kim Harrison
#2. The first money memory that many of us have as children is finding a coin on the street, in the park, or while walking to school. Then when we picked up the penny or nickel and showed it to our mother or father, and they immediately told us to go wash our hands saying, That is dirty!
Celso Cukierkorn
#3. Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore.
Dorothy Bryant
#4. It's disgusting to kill, Laila. You never get rid of death's grease. It doesn't wash away.
Erri De Luca
#5. Dennis Thatcher, husband of Margaret Thatcher, when asked who wore the pants in his house, said "I do, and I also wash and iron them." I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign.
Mae West
#6. Better mankind born without mouths and stomachs than always to worry about money to buy, to shop, to fix, to cook, to wash, to clean.
Tillie Olsen
#7. Life is spectacular. Forget the dark things. Take a drink and let time wash them away to where ever time washes away to.
Tim Tharp
#8. She felt pride and shame wash through her. Mala, the woman who acted. To thrust herself forward into the world.
Marge Piercy
#9. As I ran water to wash my hands, my earbud fell out of my ear and went down the drain.
"Crap!"
I hauled my cellphone out of my bag and texted Ranger. Bad news. Your earbud just went down the drain in the ladies room.
It was only a matter of time, he textd back.
Janet Evanovich
#10. Yes, liquor is the thin white coat of paint you wash over the cracks in your foundation. Makes any rotten house livable for a few hours. Sometimes days.
Toby Barlow
#11. When it rain, think of me. I'll be your umbrella, Kate. I'll be your barrier from the storm, when life gets too heavy. Don't let the storm wash you away. Allow it to nourish new life.
Lisa De Jong
#12. During intellectual droughts one shower of good ideas can cause a flash-flood to wash away the roads your habits travel.
Bryant McGill
#13. If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our Civilization as promenading with his shirt-tail up & the rest of his regalia in the wash.
Mark Twain
#14. Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.
Julie Burchill
#15. Loss taught me the value of tears. Just as the rains come down to wash away debris and dust, tears unleashed can bring relief.
Nana Awere Damoah
#16. On Collateral Damage: "Every limb lost, every hovel burned, every wife left husbandless, and every child orphaned created ripples of anger and resentment. Create enough of them, and we'll one day wind up with a wave that will wash us off the map.
Chris Holm
#17. 1 Have mercy upon me, O God, According to Your lovingkindness; According to the multitude of Your tender mercies, Blot out my transgressions. 2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin.
Anonymous
#18. I bought salvation from a man on the street. He said, Go down to the beach and let the waves wash your feet.
Gabriel Rheaume
#19. We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#20. In addition to single-gene genetic disorders, there are just five causes of all disease: poor diet, chronic stress, microbes, toxins, and allergens, all of which wash over our DNA causing changes in our gene expression, and turning off or on different genes and messages that affect our metabolism.
Mark Hyman
#21. On the pavement near my car are the smashed skeletons of two baby birds, their flattened beaks and wings making them look reptilian. They've been there for a year. I can't resist looking at them each time I get in my car. We need a good flood, wash them away.
Gillian Flynn
#22. I try to teach my son about sanitation, especially when handling foods like chicken that could be dangerous. I remind him to wash his hands all the time. When my son cooks with me, he stands on a step stool so he can reach the stove. I teach him about safety and fire.
Emeril Lagasse
#23. I think tripe is maligned. It's wonderful stuff, but everyone goes 'urgh.' You have to wash and then cook it, very gently braise it, for eight hours. It uplifts you but steadies you at the same time.
Fergus Henderson
#24. Syn soaped and bathed his body from head to toe. "Can I wash your hair?" "Yes," was all Furi managed to say.
A.E. Via
#25. O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.
Saadi
#26. When you start thinking you're a big shot, you wash more feet.
Andy Stanley
#27. We try to be conscious of the amount of trash we have. Having a water filter allows us to be aware of not using too many water bottles. Since I am not able to hand wash due to my schedule, I use Seventh Generation laundry detergent, and I feel less guilty.
Tia Mowry
#28. When you a darker brunette and have pale skin like I do, it can wash you out a bit, so learning to contour is really helpful. I think you can be a bit more bold with eye makeup to define your eyes, and the same with lip colors - you can go for dark wine colors, which I love.
Olivia Wilde
#29. The best thing about getting a flu shot is that you never again need to wash your hands. That's how I see it.
Chuck Palahniuk
#30. I haven't been everywhere, but I've been to enough "wheres" to know that Earth has pockets of stupid popping up north, south, east, and west. From the equator to the prime meridian - dumb does not so easily wash off.
Corey Taylor
#31. My first job was working for my dad. He was a used-car dealer, and I used to wash the cars down, clean them out, and so on. I would do stuff for him pretty much every day. It was quite a good job, to be honest.
Tyson Fury
#32. South African schoolchildren set a world record this week by creating the world's longest clothesline. Hey, what do South Africans wash their clothes with? Apar-Tide!
Dennis Miller
#33. If the munchkin, whose face I used to wash, tries to explain to us what a sixty-niner is, I'm going to report myself to child protection.
Melina Marchetta
#34. I bet I could've done a week's worth of laundry on his stomach. Probably would be a heck of a lot more fun way to wash clothes.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#35. I never thought I should like to wash dishes, but I do, said Rose, as she sat in a boat after supper lazily rinsing plates in the sea, and rocking luxuriously as she wiped them.
Louisa May Alcott
#36. Tell me, Nana,
If for example we had been a love couple,
Would a hug have been enough to wash away my sadness?
Or then; does every single being carry this loneliness, like a burden?
I wans't intending to monopolizing you
I just wanted you to need me.
Ai Yazawa
#37. 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
#38. I'm very content to have great management and a great label. But for me, success started when my managers came to me and told me, 'Go ahead and quit your job.' I told them, 'As long as I don't have to wash dishes anymore, I'm good.'
Leon Bridges
#39. A young bride can put on makeup at 6 in the morning and look fabulous at midnight. I have about a 15-minute window where I actually look good, and then I have to wash my face and start over.
Cathy Guisewite
#40. That's the beauty about beauty; it's not like a tattoo. You can just wash it right off, and your skin is your canvas, so you can do something new the next day.
Michelle Phan
#41. I looked hard out the window and understood suddenly that what I saw was full of color. A watercolor wash of summer light lay on the Catalina Mountains. The end of a depression is that clear: it's as if you have been living underwater, but never realized it until you came up for air.
Barbara Kingsolver
#42. What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.
George Eliot
#43. All parents wash away their sins with their tears; you are not the only one.
Maxim Gorky
#46. If you really want your hair to look good, just don't wash it for a day. That's my secret.
Zac Efron
#47. Dreams that are as rich as cream while they unfold are skim milk when we wake, and in time they wash out of our minds, leaving as little residue as water filtered through cheesecloth.
Dean Koontz
#48. I quickly wash my hair and body, keeping my mind on each step required, so I'll stop thinking about Sawyer. Naked. In this shower. Damn it! Well Played, Imagination. Well played.
Tasha Ivey
#49. Zen is very easy! It's like touching your nose when you wash your face in the morning!
Seungsahn
#50. The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.
Lloyd Alexander
#51. It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next.
It made me tired just to think of it.
Sylvia Plath
#52. Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each time from individual bars of soap.
Howard Hughes
#53. Not all the blood of beasts On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away the stain: But Christ, the heav'nly Lamb, Takes all our sins away, A sacrifice of nobler nam' And richer blood than they.
Isaac Watts
#54. The ocean and I have many pebbles To find and wash off and roll into shape.
William Stafford
#55. The serving that we are called to requires direct contact. You cannot wash the feet of a dirty world if you refuse to touch it.
Erwin Raphael McManus
#56. Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?"
Macbeth
William Shakespeare
#57. Knock us out," Hook stated. "You got something exciting that'll trip our triggers, we'll drink it. Just as long as it's wet and cold. Got a long length of road down my throat and that always tastes good, but it's time to wash it away.
Kristen Ashley
#58. My mother taught me to wash my hair as little as possible, and to rinse it with Coke before a shoot for a sexy, tousled look.
Lou Doillon
#59. It was as though I were yelling up to Heaven and Heaven would not hear me. And if Heaven would not hear me- to wash me, to make me clean- then utter disaster was my portion.
James Baldwin
#60. Although she didn't know what to say. She was under the impression that she was going to have to go back and start again at zero, even relearn language. Maybe in the end all of them had been right to force her to socialize a bit, to force her to wash, dress, entertain. Her
David Foenkinos
#61. The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
Miguel De Unamuno
#62. Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.
John Muir
#63. We don't put gender roles on our marriage and our relationship. If I'm working a lot and Cory's home, he will put Cree to bed, and if dishes need to be washed, he will wash them. So it's not like, 'Oh, I'm going to wait until my wife gets home, and she's going to be doing all that.'
Tia Mowry
#64. shame is the voice of perfectionism. Whether we're talking about appearance, work, motherhood, health or family, it's not the quest for perfection that is so painful; it's failing to meet the unattainable expectations that lead to the painful wash of shame.
Brene Brown
#65. O Master, who didst wash the disciples' feet, be very patient with me, be very condescending to my faults, go on with me till Thy great work in me is completed. I
Anonymous
#66. I used to wash my hands every ten minutes. I couldn't step out of the house unless I had gloves on. I wouldn't smoke a cigarette unless I opened the pack myself, and I would never use another cigarette out of that pack if someone else had touched it.
Joan Crawford
#67. The Emmy will have no effect on me, from the standpoint that you've still got to wash your bowl after breakfast.
Charles Keating
#68. You buy me sheets. You paint my room. What's next? You gonna wash my balls? -Tate
Kristen Ashley
#69. All we have to do is get out and vote, while it's still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.
Hunter S. Thompson
#70. I never wash my hair the night before an event - I call it second day hair, and it holds better.
Debby Ryan
#71. That strange turbulence that rises when you begin to wash up on the island of your own little self and you don't see how you could ever sustain yourself there.
Sue Monk Kidd
#73. And he who would not languish among men, must learn to drink out of all glasses; and he who would keep clean among men, must know how to wash himself even with dirty water.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#74. They say, he whispers, his lips making the word-shapes on her shoulder, there is a river that heals all wounds. It is pure white, like snow or the blossoms of prarie-cotton. You are my white river. If I die, I will come back to wash my heart in you.
Margaret Lawrence
#75. I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
Randy Pausch
#76. The Gulphe in which truth lies is bottomless and it will wash over whatever is thrown into it.
Peter Ackroyd
#77. One might sooner wash shit from shit than cleanse a soul so wicked!
R. Scott Bakker
#78. I love cleansing my face in the mornings and at night using Bliss Foaming Facial Wash. It makes my skin feel soft, and the refreshing smell always wakes me up.
Bethany Mota
#79. I will not go on, I thought. I won't. I will throw my soul to the wind and blow into a thousand pieces. I will wash up on a shore somewhere like bleached and broken driftwood. I will dry out in the sun until I-and any gift I ever had-shrivel into the sand.
Janette Rallison
#80. I just told you to be quiet. That's one step away from asking you to wash my laundry and make me a sandwich.
Richelle Mead
#81. He has to do the heavy lifting and the windows and the wash, and also protect the president.
Alan K. Simpson
#82. Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest.
John Webster
#83. It's only when the settlement work has gone on for months that one realizes how bad things are. As our secretary said to me, your finger-nails never seem dirty until you wash your hands.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#84. waters cannot quench love,'" Wesley finished the quote. "'Rivers cannot wash it away.'" "'Nor will rivers overflow it,
Tiffany Reisz
#85. As for me, I am a watercolor.
I wash off.
Anne Sexton
#86. There is some joy in weeping. For our tears
Fill up the cup, then wash our pain away.
Ovid
#87. Learn to be one with who you are in Reality, and the waves of a thousand passing worlds cannot wash you away.
Guy Finley
#88. Charles did not know it, but in those brief poised seconds above the waiting sea, in that luminous evening silence broken only by the waves' quiet wash, the whole Victorian Age was lost. And I do not mean he had taken the wrong path.
John Fowles
#89. The reality is that we do not wash our own laundry - it just gets dirtier.
Frank Serpico
#90. On the day of the funeral he had stood behind me in the rain and let the water wash over him, the drops falling from the brim of his hat like tears
John Connolly
#91. It's settled, then," Grace said. She turned back to Nick. "Take the Jag to the car wash and for heaven's sake clean the McDonald's Happy Meal boxes out of it."
"Hey," Nick said, his face offended. "That's a low blow. Those boxes are collectibles.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#92. Loyalty's a dangerous foundation. Tends to wash away in a storm. Self-interest stands in any weather.
Joe Abercrombie
#93. If you want God's grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster. We come to God saying, "Look at all I've done," or maybe "Look at all I've suffered." God, however, wants us to look to him - to just wash.
Timothy Keller
#94. Even clingfilm - if it's gone over a salad bowl, take it off, use it again. I wash out carrier bags; I save brown paper from parcels. I save string; I save ribbons. I separate all my bits and pieces.
Joanna Lumley
#95. It comes down to this. Some one must wash the dishes. Now, would you expect man, man made in the image of God, to roll up his sleeves and wash the dishes? Why, it would be blasphemy. I know that I am but a rib and so I wash the dishes.
Marie Jenney Howe
#96. Practice good personal hygiene. Wash your hands before you eat. Be aware of good clean water and food sources.
James Wright
#97. I wash my skin with Re-Nutrive Intensive Hydrating Skin Cleanser, no toner, and follow with the range's Re-Nutrive Intensive Age-Renewal and Eye Creme.
Aerin Lauder
#98. If you can't afford organic food and are unable to grow your own, it's crucial to wash all inorganic produce very carefully to minimize the toxins you consume. Soak everything for 20 minutes in water with vinegar and salt or water with fresh lemon juice and salt.
Suzanne Somers
#99. He says he'd like to kiss the ground you walk on-reminds me, did you wash them yesterday?- and after that you're his skivvy.
Bertolt Brecht
#100. Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams,
Now I wash the gum from your eyes,
You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light
and of every moment of your life
Walt Whitman
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