Washing Quotes

The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold

Washing dishes is the anecdote to confusion. I know that for a fact.

The fact that I am standing there and washing bowls is a wondrous reality. I'm being completely myself, following my breath, conscious of my presence, and conscious of my thoughts and actions.

But, o, photography! as no art is,Faithful and disappointing! That recordsDull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds,And will not censor blemishes,Like washing-lines, and Hall's-Distemper boards

My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts.

Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are altogether forgiven.

I find myself dreaming of doing normal things - like staying home and washing dishes.

I used to get bummed out when it rained; then I realized that it's God's way of washing off hippies.

I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.

Harry, guess what?" said Tonks from her perch on top of the washing machine, and she wiggled her left hand at him; a ring glittered there.

I wear [socks and underwear] once and throw them out. Even when I'm home...I wouldn't think of washing them.

I don't recommend washing your face. Because you might drown.

I'm going to be a happy housewife. I'm going to be washing boxers and cooking and doing all those sorts of housewife duties. I just want to be happy and proud of every single day.

When I think of the future, I think of doing my washing so I've something to wear tomorrow.

Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.

If you've got red hair, try washing it in cranberry juice. And, if you're blonde, a champagne rinse can work wonders.

My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.

Emotions weren't like washing. There was no call to peg them out for all the world to view.

You talk about 'Obama is going to herd us into FEMA brainwashing camps.' Maybe your brain needs a little washing.

What's the point of washing off your ball when teeing off on a water hole?

Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.

Sign at a Kentucky appliance store: Don't kill your wife. Let our washing machine do the dirty work.

Vacuuming is great. I do the laundry. I love washing machines. I'm the maid in my house.

Nothing grows in our garden, only washing. And babies.

The hair department is always on my case about washing my hair. I am incredibly lazy, and a brat about washing my hair.

The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things in life. We have almost lost track of them.

No matter how you have searched, there will always be one teaspoon left at the bottom of the washing-up water.

Writing is like washing windows in the sun. With every attempt to perfect clarity, you make a new smear.

I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut

I've had a lot of luck. If I didn't I'd be washing bottles in Russia.

Baking is like washing--the results are equally temporary.

While washing dishes one should be washing the dishes, which means that while washing the dishes one should be completely aware of the fact that one is washing dishes.

No matter what you do for a living you should get paid for your work, whether you're washing dishes or recording songs.

Remember that you can pray any time, anywhere. Washing dishes, digging ditches, working in the office, in the shop, on the athletic field, even in prison - you can pray and know God hears!

There won't be any revolution in America ... the people are too clean. They spend all their time changing their shirts and washing themselves. You can't feel fierce and revolutionary in a bathroom.

Women are part of the reason for washing and keeping clean, aren't they?

When people, women included, hear that you are writing, they assume that it is simply a hobby to fill in the time between doing the washing-up and the ironing. It couldn't possibly be a profession.

I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce scenes symbolized by the very slow washing of dishes.

Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.

Vibration is always good. Sitting on top of the washing machine thats going.

The washing-up was so dismally real that Bilbo was forced to believe the party of the night before had not been part of his bad dreams, as he had rather hoped.

Everyone has a need to do penance. It's a basic need, like washing. It's about harmony, an absolutely essential inner balance. It's the balance we call morality.

Truth. It feels cool, like water washing over my sticky-hot body. Cooling a heat that's been burning me up all my life. Truth, I say inside my head again, just for that feeling.

Let's not forget how beautiful simply washing dishes can be.

Jesus specialized in menial tasks that everyone else tried to avoid: washing feet, helping children, fixing breakfast, and serving lepers. Nothing was beneath him, because he came to serve.

Normal is a cycle on the washing machine. There is no such thing when it comes to human beings.

It's not nothing when you're abroad and you don't have a washing machine.

A lot of what I do in my work is taking a thing and either washing it off, scraping it, covering it, scraping it and then washing it, turning it upside down. Making it somehow blind.

We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.

When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet.