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  • Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.

  • You can be anything you want to be. You can be a street sweeper, if you want. Just be the best blasted street sweeper you can be . . . And, you know you can be mayor.

  • He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did his job well'

    Jobs   Greatness   Heaven  
    Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume
  • Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a seance.

    Atheism   Guinea   Made  
    Thomas Henry Huxley (1903). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”
  • If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

  • Malcolm X found the language that communicated across the board, from college professor to floor sweeper, all at the same time, without demeaning the intellect of either.

  • If you can't be a highway, then just be a trail, If you can't be the sun, be a star; It isn't by size that you win or you fail- Be the best of whatever you are.

    Stars   Winning   Sun  
    Douglas Malloch, “Be the Best of Whatever You Are”
  • Better a street-sweeper in Mexico than a filmmaker in Germany!

  • I wrote my first book in a toilet in a factory where I was a floor sweeper.

    Book   Toilets   Firsts  
    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.

  • It's a battered old suitcase and a hotel someplace and a wound that will never heal.

  • I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

    Book   Envy   Wish  
  • Cleaning up the country cannot be the sole responsibility of sweepers. Do citizens have no role in this? We have to change this mindset.

  • And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. Don't just set out to do a good job.

    Jobs   Moments   Good Job  
  • I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am lean with seeing others eat - O that there would come a famine through all the world, that all might die, and I live alone; then thou should'st see how fat I would be! But must thou sit and I stand? Come down, with a vengeance!

    Book   Oysters   Envy  
    Christopher Marlowe, David Wootton (2005). “Doctor Faustus: With The English Faust Book”, p.36, Hackett Publishing
  • Be an artist at whatever you do. Even if you are a street sweeper, be the Michelangelo of street sweepers.

  • If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets as Raphael painted pictures, sweep streets as Michelangelo carved marble, sweep streets as Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.

    Life   Fall   Raphael  
    Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”
  • If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it, rather than yourself. No man sweeps his own chimney, but employs a chimney-sweeper, who has no objection to dirty work, because it is his trade.

    Dirty   Men   Lawyer  
    Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.168
  • A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.

    Greatness   Men   Clean  
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.405
  • Fear no more the heat o' th' sun Nor the furious winters' 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.

    Girl   Death   Art  
    'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 4, sc. 2, l. 258
  • You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper.

  • 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.

    Fire   Long   House  
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.454
  • It's a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace, and a wound that will never heal. No prima donna, the perfume is on an old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey. Goodnight to the street sweepers, the night watchmen flame keepers and goodnight, Matilda, too.

    Travel   Night   Flames  
    Tom Waits (2007). “The Early Years: The Lyrics of Tom Waits 1971-1983”, Ecco
  • A legal broom's a moral chimney-sweeper, And that's the reason he himself's so dirty

    Dirty   Moral   Reason  
    Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.254, Simon and Schuster
  • Any eyes on me - a late-night street sweeper, some dude texting in his parked car, the homeless guy talking to himself - make me feel uncomfortable when I skate. Everyone expects me to do certain things.

    Eye   Night   Talking  
    "Rodney Mullen Skates Central Park" by Alec Wilkinson, www.newyorker.com. November 26, 2012.
  • The only good that I can see in the demonstration of the truth of "Spiritualism" is to furnish an additional argument against suicide. Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a séance.

    Review in the Daily News on October 17, 1871. "Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley". Book edited by Leonard Huxley, Volume 1, p. 452, 1900.
  • Golden lads and girls all must as chimney sweepers come to dust.

    Girl   Death   Dust  
    'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 4, sc. 2, l. 258
  • I am very fit and by playing sweeper I can control the speed of the game.

    Games   Fit   Speed  
  • I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man, In every Infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear. How the Chimney-sweeper's cry Every black'ning Church appalls; And the hapless Soldier's sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls. But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlot's curse Blasts the new born Infant's tear, And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.

    Running   Wall   Men  
    William Blake (2010). “Poems: Introduction by Patti Smith”, p.144, Random House
  • The national State divides its inhabitants into three classes: State citizens, State subjects, and foreigners. It must be held in greater honour to be a citizen of this Reich even if only a crossing-sweeper, than to be a king in a foreign State.

    Kings   Class   Three  
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