Quotes about Sweeping

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo 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 and say, 'Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.'

Martin Luther King Jr.

The ball tends to sweep into the pins at Augusta. Here, it's always running away from them. This is very tough.

Padraig Harrington

I could sweep up a dustpan of dirt an hour, and it still wouldn't be clean.

Carl Archey

We got to move kids around and some played well, like Alex Garneau sweeping. In these type of games if you don't go into four touch or whatever, you're kids don't look good and they don't play well.

Doug Kilby

There is a tiny chance that we will have a second round, but I fear Preval has made a clean sweep of the votes.

Leslie Manigat

We live under one sky -- and the sweep of a past painted from the palette of a bruise.

Red Constantino

You have this massive problem within the Catholic Church and the Church's response to it, in one sweeping gesture, seems to be 'we're going to travel around the country and ask people if they are gay'.

Joe Solmonese

Clearly, you don't want to sweep this under the rug and say it's insignificant, because it's not, ... Obviously, it puts on a spotlight to ensure discipline around compliance with processes and systems in place, and certainly, we'll continue to put our best foot forward for hiring.

Sean Mchugh

I think we're doing a lot of things well, and I think it's been received well on the street, ... Street Sweep.

Richard Mcginn

This law seems to me to be very sweeping.

Justice Anthony Kennedy

The information gleaned when we picked up Saddam Hussein led to a better understanding of the structure [of the insurgency], ... We think there are some of the leadership of this insurgency [that have been caught up in the sweep].

Richard Myers

With only 12 players on a team and to have lost six of those players - that leaves some big shoes to fill. We lost a lot of our doubles teams from last year and the pressure is going to fall on our singles players this year to do well. We won't be able to count on our doubles teams to sweep.

Mike Blake

Francesca's productions are always beautifully balanced between the intimacy of the characters and the sweep of the epic, and I think that she will use the symbols of America brilliantly.

Placido Domingo

For us to get a sweep heading into exams is obviously a good thing. I thought our guys did a good job of playing hard all weekend, despite the weather related issues. I am glad that we were able to finish off the sweep to head into the week.

Brian Cleary

Each time a man stands for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Robert Francis Kennedy

In the second half with those off-tackle sweep plays, we had no answer for him. He's a great football player.

Brian Glesing

The coaches got us thinking about it. We're ready to come out and try to get the sweep.

Robbie Grinestaff

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Shirley Conran

Timothy Dwight, grandson of Jonathan Edwards, leader of the 'First Great Awakening,' was president of Yale when God brought a deep, broad, sweeping move of the Holy Spirit to the campus during the 'Second Great Awakening.' As we look to the past and its implications for campus ministry today, we will be meeting at the epicenter of the campus aspect of a great revival.

Dave Warn

Deals were a key driver in Asia-Pacific, where companies formed partnerships to position themselves in an environment characterized by brisk growth, increasing competition, and sweeping regulatory changes. There was unprecedented consolidation among Japan's largest pharmaceutical companies, as well as noteworthy deals across the region.

Donn Szaro

Our defense did a pretty good job, especially considering that we were missing a couple of defenders. (Jordan) Webb was sweeping for me, and she did a good job for us.

Glenn Griffin

Typically, this league is not that way. We know we've got to keep improving, and we know teams aren't likely to keep sweeping.

Jim Gantt

Sweeping change is needed to remove any pre-9/11 confusion about information sharing that, regrettably, still exists in some departments and agencies.

Jim Barksdale

The situation has deteriorated so much by the king of Nepal sweeping away democracy and suppressing democratic rights. And now that has become one of the most serious problems because the people of Nepal do not have democratic space to discuss and decide their future and to resolve the conflict peacefully.

Nicholas Howen

I made sweeping changes.

Tony Lewis

The whole racial thing has been downplayed, but that is what it was. It seems that everyone wants to sweep the thing under the rug.

Forrest Pearson

The traveller must, of course, always be cautious of the overly broad generalisation. But I am an American, and a paucity of data does not stop me from making sweeping, vague, conceptual statements and, if necessary, following these statements up with troops.

George Saunders

It's sweeping, in terms of its impact, and we hope this is the start of better practices on Microsoft's part.

Marc Rotenberg

We weren't as thorough [Saturday] as we'd like to be because of some of the mental breakdowns we had on the [penalty kill]. But we had a lot of pretty plays and we showed a lot of offensive firepower, which is good to see. Tonight was a good win for us, so we're just happy to get out of here with four points and a sweep of Maine.

Brad Zancanaro

The scars on a female soldier's face, which someone engraved yesterday with broken glass, may heal. The ugly national scars that opened will no longer be possible to sweep under the rug.

Alex Fishman

It's a sweeping change in current law, ... They probably think it will go under the radar screen because of these disasters.

Tom Udall

Clean-sweep whole neighborhoods, in the name of 'health' and 'safety' and 'a great future' and all that, and end up doing what Ceausescu did to Bucharest. And then it will be gone.

Frederick Starr

I'm not surprised both of these guys were up on the podium, and Mason was in fourth. We had hoped to sweep the podium, I won't lie. We ended up with first, second and fourth, and that's still pretty darn good. I'm really psyched.

Bud Keene

We do know that there's a lot of season left. But if you keep saying that there's a lot of games left, before you know it, you're not going to be in good position. So it kind of is an urgency. We do need to win two out of three and hopefully even sweep.

Chris Coghlan

Probably her most complete game she's played in her four years. The only thing she didn't do tonight was sweep the floor at halftime.

Matt Thissen

Banning cargo sweeping would be catastrophic to the shipping industry. It would shut down power production, steel production and all kinds of construction activities in the region.

James Weakley

It's like a giant arm just swept across the earth like sweeping things off a tabletop.

Donnie Kennair

It's not too late, ... We've got a chance. We are facing the teams in our division. I'd say we have to win the series. I wouldn't say we have to sweep, but we have to win the series.

Ray Durham

We believe she would have caught it from fresh chicken droppings while she was sweeping.

Thawat Suntrajarn

We would really like to be able to sweep (the first series). That would put some confidence in our team.

Alena Nardinger

They are going to be a completely different team than we saw in the first half of the season. We had a good sweep out there earlier this year, but it's going to be a whole new team we face this weekend.

Nate Guenin

These guys can sweep somebody with these three pitchers.

Don Sutton

You want to have a layered look. You need a fairly wide, sweeping bed to allow for a low front row, a medium-height middle and a third row that is taller.

Lee Quillen

It is made of 18 panels, so we could disassemble it and work on parts of it in our individual areas, but no one person could really make sweeping changes to the whole painting, so it developed in a group setting.

Shea Little

We talked about the importance of collecting wins at home. We need to get wins right now. If you have an opportunity to sweep an opponent at home you need to do it.

Walt Kyle

This was big. We're on a roll right now after sweeping the weekend and we wanted to keep a winning streak going. I'm happy I was able to help out.

Greg Harmon

He is the new broom, and he can sweep clean.

Peter Ward

It (a sweep) would have made things easier. But I was pleased with the effort our guys gave today. We bounced back after a couple tough losses down there.

Brian Holgate

We have to go to their place, which I've heard the atmosphere there is just amazing. If we go in there and take two out of three or sweep them, that would be huge for our club.

Brett Bordes

YTI is showing the way for all of the Port of Los Angeles' terminal operators. We applaud YTI's leadership and expect that this is but the first of a wave of cleaner air conversion projects that will sweep the port.

David Freeman

It was amazing just the scope and how sweeping the whole thing is. It's a big epic - tons of actors, tons of extras, explosions. They move a lot slower obviously than they do [on TV] so you're just doing a couple of pages a day, so that was interesting to get used to.

Mark Consuelos

If you answer phones, do that better. If you tape ankles or sweep the floor, you do that better. If your job is to get to the quarterback, you do that better. Everybody does their job better than they've ever done it before, and we'll be fine.

Tyoka Jackson

If you learn a sweep stroke in a whitewater kayak, that sweep stroke's going to do the same thing in a sea kayak.

Bill Merrick

It's a total Cinderella story because it's still gay cowboys. Try that at a pitch meeting. Try predicting to anyone (before the movie's release) that it would sweep all the nominations. One of the reasons the movie's surprising everyone is that they put it in a box, and it doesn't belong there.

Ray Price

They had to write why they designed their logo and what they think of Clean Sweep, and some of the responses are just heartwarming.

Dan Kubit

We were trying to make sure the arrangement was good, because the song has a very dynamic and sweeping melody line.

Butch Vig

A strategic shift to value-added products and the past sweeping restructuring efforts have helped improve the profit-generating capacity at Japanese firms, allowing them to easily absorb such negative factors as rises in crude oil prices and increases in personnel cost.

Osamu Katano

So far they haven't been able to see a strong sense of urgency. It's a little here and a little there. It's not the sweeping kind of change that this company needs.

Shelly Lombard

It's more sweeping than you would see in a bankruptcy environment. He's going to look at it objectively, more so than a typical insider would. It's a guy like Steve Miller that really asks the tough, penetrating questions that force organizations to face the brutal facts. He probably opened up the eyes of the management team.

Craig Fitzgerald

I didn't just want to sit in an office anymore. I saw myself as a therapist with a broom sweeping up the neighborhood.

Neil Stone

It was nice to have a winning streak heading into (today). One of our goals was to sweep April vacation and we accomplished that.

Chuck Becker

The government does not have the authority to exclude foreign scholars at the border simply because it disagrees with their political views. To invest the government with that authority would be to invest it with sweeping power to manipulate and censor debate inside the United States.

Jameel Jaffer

We know teams are gunning for us. Especially after we swept South Alabama. We're a hot team right now, but we've got to go up there with the mindset that we're going to get a sweep or win the series.

Mike Felix

One area of the floor will be just black. We kill them and sweep them up and throw them out.

Terry Clark

I think this is really an effort by Nortel to sort of sweep the decks (and) move forward.

Richard Powers

We set some high goals. We wanted to sweep everything. We came really close. If Kelly had landed on her feet on that last run we would have swept.

Bud Keene

For too long the voice of Mr. Kennard has cried, but no one has listened. In order for the state to clear its past, we must lift up the rug and sweep the dust.

Lakeisha Bryant

Most of the mess was on the plastic, ... The rest we would just sweep up and get rid of.

Jeff Long

It would have been great to have an all-American sweep, ... but I think that this shows how strong the Americans are.

Kristin Armstrong

I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears.

James Herriot

The problem is in this day and age we can't just sweep them under the carpet like that. We have to take them seriously.

Tom Scheben

We don't know how wide this electronic vacuum cleaner is sweeping.

Alan Morrison

Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?

Fanny Crosby

The potential for this play is to sweep the audience into this world that they're not familiar with. Our general consensus about that hillbilly lifestyle is that they're inbred and ignorant, but they're not that type of people. They believe what they believe, and they believe it very strongly.

Brian Peccia

I saw this vision with a beautiful plastic bag in Kensington High Street, ... and then you didn't see the face because he had this blond thing [indicating a sweeping fringe across his face] that was, you know, too much!

Manolo Blahnik

The appeal was that they were big, sweeping escapist stories full of glamour and excitement. Most teenagers are dissatisfied with their lives and dream of bigger and better things out there. These books were pure indulgence then, and I still enjoy them now.

Tilly Bagshawe

They are sweeping up now. Everything is capped and plugged and cemented all the way up. It just went a lot slower than they thought it would.

Greg Flores

A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers.

Patrick Kavanagh

I like the energy, the sweep of the wings.

Gordon Kray

It was kind of like a sweep, ... I took the ball. The defense thought it was a sweep. I threw it down the field.

Kevin Johnson

We ought to have some resolution of this matter. Instead, there just seems to be a sweeping -- there seems to be a policy of sweeping it under the rug.

Gary Milhollin

Our list of charities is quite long. In terms of just making a sweeping comment that we're a bad corporate citizen, it's really not true.

Philip Serghini

There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.

Will Durst

Now, when you walk in the house, you have a pretty sweeping view of the marsh.

Patricia O'brien

There is Outside ownership, no doubt, but it's all managed locally, ... Al has been here ever since he was sweeping the floors as a kid.

John Tracy

We hit the mid-line a lot with Jared Kimmel up the middle and then we started hitting the rocket on the outside. We took advantage; the defensive ends were playing a little tight. We tried to get outside on them. We ran our rocket play - our quick sweep - and that really got us back into the game.

Mike Curtis

We'd told the guys we'd like to sweep, but if we can get a split, we've done a very good job. It should be another battle.

Bob Atwell

For (the players) to sweep them is probably the best feeling in the world. We're focused on the bigger picture, on winning a league title.

Dave Legg

My grandparents, I'm sure, were nervous sitting on the couch watching. And I hear that my dad had some friends over to his house. My sister's in Winnipeg and I'm sure they were all glued to the TV and cheering and sweeping on that last shot.

Sasha Carter

I don't think it's a model that's going to sweep the industry, but you might see it pop up in places like Boulder, Palo Alto or San Francisco, where you have a large body of high-end enthusiasts.

Marc Sani

It's always great to get a sweep on the road, especially this road trip. For the first time all year everyone had a chance to play and that will be important for those players later in the year.

Krista Mikesch

I give them one year to realize their initial reforms weren't radical enough to get Germany back up and running, and then a year after that to implement sweeping change. If they don't get immediate results after that, the only thing holding them together will be a mutual fear of the radical politics preparing to take power from them.

Frank Umbach

Four years ago, while the nation's eyes were fixed on the devastation in New York City, California's Democrat-controlled Legislature attacked marriage by enacting a sweeping domestic partner bill one day after September 11.

Robert Knight

South Dakota's ban is the most sweeping abortion ban passed by any state in more than a decade.

Eve Gartner

I've got to savor this a little bit -- my last regular-season game against Arizona. Finishing it off with a nice win. I'm savoring this for sure, whenever we can come out and sweep that team it feels pretty good. We got it done today.

Emily Zaplatosch

I have full confidence that everyone who is going will represent really well. Everyone who is going is a really good representation of U.S. snowboarders and snowboarders anywhere. I think everyone has full potential to sweep (all the medals). The Olympics is the biggest event in the world, so I'm really looking forward to going there and having a lot of fun.

Elena Hight

It's an exciting time, but he's been focused on not only winning re-election but also on governing, ... Other than what he's laid out in his campaign speeches, he hasn't shared other more sweeping ideas he may have.

Edward Skyler