Suddenly we have a baby who poops and cries, and we are trying to calm, clean up, and pin things together all at once. Then as fas...t as we learn to cope--so soon--it is hard to recall why diapers ever seemed so important. The frontiers change, and now perhaps we have a teenager we can't reach.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Perhaps the fact that I am not a Radical or a believer in the all powerful ballot for women to right her wrongs and that I do not ...scorn womanly duties, but claim it as a privilege to clean up and sort of supervise the room and sew things, etc., is winning me stronger allies than anything else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Going down for the last time, the last breath lying, I grapple with eels like ropes--it's ether, it's queer... and then, at last, it's done. Now the scavengers arrive, the hard crawlers who come to clean up the ocean floor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Continued traveling is far from productive. It begins with wearing away the soles of the shoes, and making the feet sore, and ere ...long it will wear a man clean up, after making his heart sore into the bargain. I have observed that the afterlife of those who have traveled much is very pathetic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.... He shall receive the blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That's why I quit and took up writing poetry instead. It's clean, it's relaxing, it doesn't squirt juice all over... Something you were certain of a minute ago and now your own face Is a stranger and no one can tell you it's true. Hey, stupid!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let us not deny it up and down. Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end, and it is of no use to try to whitewas...h its huge, mixed instrumentalities, or to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student of divinity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Kelly: I washed my face clean the morning I woke up in your bedroom. Griff: You got morals in my bedroom?... Kelly: You had nothing to do with it. Nothing! It was your mirror. Griff: You must have taken a long look. Kelly: It was the longest look of my life. I saw a broken-down piece of machinery. Nothing but the buck, the bed, and the bottle for the rest of my life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »