Sweep

Famous quotes containing the word sweep:

“Each should sweep the snow from before his own door and not worry about the frost on his neighbor’s roof.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course.”
—John Lukacs (b.1924)

“I who take here
my bread and life
and sweep the temple,
still I swear
that I would save you,
birds or spirits.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)