Spring Cleaning Quotes:

If you want to get rid of stuff, you can always do a good spring-cleaning. Or you can do what I do. Move.

- Ellen DeGeneres

topic: Spring, Moving, Want, Spring Cleaning, Good Spring

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

- William Morris

source: Hopes and Fears for Art "The Beauty of Life" (1882)

topic: Life, Happiness, Beauty, Life Is Simple, Spring Cleaning

I look forward to spring cleaning and putting things in their place. It's therapeutic for me.

- Kimora Lee Simmons

topic: Spring, Looks, Cleaning, Spring Cleaning

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

- Phyllis Diller

source: Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints (1966)

topic: Growing Up, Children, Silly, Spring Cleaning, Chores

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?

- Phyllis Diller

source: Phyllis Diller (2006). “Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy”, p.77, Penguin

topic: Funny, Hilarious, Witty, Spring Cleaning, Housework

My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

- Erma Bombeck

topic: Ideas, Rooms, Glances, Spring Cleaning, Chores

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.

- Joan Rivers

source: Quoted in Michele Brown and Ann O'Connor, Woman Talk (1984)

topic: Funny, Hilarious, Women, Spring Cleaning, Starting All Over Again

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.

- Erma Bombeck

topic: Family, Mom, Mother, Spring Cleaning, Chores

No enthusiasm will ever stand the strain that Jesus Christ will put upon His worker, only one thing will, and that is a personal relationship to Himself which has gone through the mill of His spring-cleaning until there is only one purpose left--I am here for God to send me where He will.

- Oswald Chambers

source: Oswald Chambers (2015). “Called of God: Extracts from My Utmost for His Highest on the Missionary Call”, p.35, Discovery House

topic: Jesus, Spring, Purpose, Spring Cleaning

When you forgive, you heal your own anger and hurt and are able to let love lead again. It's like spring cleaning for your heart.

- Marci Shimoff

source: Marci Shimoff, Carol Kline (2009). “Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

topic: Inspirational, Hurt, Spring, Spring Cleaning, Empowering Love

I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.

- Roseanne Barr

topic: Mom, Mother, Clever, Spring Cleaning, Chores

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

- Agatha Christie

topic: Time, Book, Memorable, Hercule Poirot, Spring Cleaning

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.

- Doug Larson

topic: Spring, Shoes, Whistling, March Poems, Spring Cleaning

Apologizing is like spring cleaning.

- Katherine Hannigan

topic: Spring, Cleaning, Apologizing, Spring Cleaning

Fasting is like spring cleaning for your body.

- Jentezen Franklin

source: Jentezen Franklin (2014). “Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship with God”, p.38, Charisma Media

topic: Spring, Fasting, Body, Spring Cleaning

You won't forget me, Peter, will you, before spring-cleaning time comes? Of course Peter promised, and then he flew away. He took Mrs. Darling's kiss with him. The kiss that had been for no one else Peter took quite easily. Funny. But she seemd satisfied.

- James M. Barrie

topic: Spring, Kissing, Cleaning, Spring Cleaning