Top 248 Chimney Sweeps Quotes & Sayings

Smell and taste are in fact but a single composite sense, whose laboratory is the mouth and its chimney the nose.

What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney?

Silkes and Satins put out the fire in the chimney.

How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away

Art sweeps the everyday dust from your soul.

My gardening apprenticeship was similar to the way a chimney sweep is pushed up a chimney. It was enforced by my parents, non-negotiable - it would be weeding the strawberries, mowing the grass.

If you fall in love, it's because it captures you and sweeps you off your feet.

You can't build a chimney from the top, you know.

A musical sweeps you along, like you're on a magic carpet ride of sorts. But you have to keep up.

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

If SANTA CLAUS came down the chimney in a f**king jogging suit, you wouldn't even know it was him.

Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions.

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.

Fame sweeps you away. I had to go home every six months to remember who I am.

Disney is a delight, someone who ... sweeps those around him along on his dream.

The person who sweeps the floor should choose the broom.

When fashion sweeps in, artists follow suit. I think this is the malady of contemporary art.

Life sweeps you up. Some people resist a lot. I probably haven't resisted very much.

Two bones fell down my chimney and into the bedroom this morning. Hysterical thing to happen to a thriller writer. Murderous ravens perhaps?

I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.

The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.

Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.

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.

And so there would always be more to remember that could no longer be seen...our history is always returning to a little patch of weeds and saplings with an old chimney sticking up by itself...and here I look ahead to the resting of my case: I love the house that belonged to the chimney, holding it bright in memory, and love the saplings and the weeds.

She'd become a governess. It was one of the few jobs a known lady could do. And she'd taken to it well. She'd sworn that if she did indeed ever find herself dancing on rooftops with chimney sweeps she'd beat herself to death with her own umbrella.

I always say one of the great scenes from 'The Dirty Dozen' is where Jim Brown has to get grenades in the chimney.

It's understandable that people are keeping one eye on the pot and another up the chimney.

Golden lads and girls all must as chimney sweepers come to dust.

Accurately recalling an entire day of fishing is like trying to push smoke back down a chimney, so you settle on these specific moments.

The telescope sweeps the sky without finding God.

I'd like to start with the chimney jokes - I've got a stack of them. The first one is on the house.

Having a Mary Poppins-themed birthday party when I was 5 - all my friends went in dresses, and I went as a chimney sweep. I was a real tomboy.

Prayer sweeps the battlefield, slays the enemy, and buries the bones.

The thing to remember about love affairs," says Simone, "is that they are all like having raccoons in your chimney." ... We have raccoons sometimes in our chimney," explains Simone. And once we tried to smoke them out. We lit a fire, knowing they were there, but we hoped the smoke would cause them to scurry out the top and never come back. Instead, they caught on fire and came crashing down into our living room, all charred and in flames and running madly around until they dropped dead." Simone swallows some wine. "Love affairs are like that," she says. "They are all like that.

Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.

If everyone sweeps before his own front door, then the street is clean.

When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.

Every soul has a landscape that changes with the wind that sweeps the sky, with the clouds that return after its rain.

He describes it as a large apartment, with a red brick floor and a capacious chimney; the ceiling garnished with hams, sides of bacon, and ropes of onions.

Fate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought.

Every head turned to see two more security guards appear, each holding a Bagshaw by the back of the neck (which might have been considerably less conspicuous had the Bagshaws not been dressed as chimney sweeps). Kat turned back to Hale. 'The Mary Poppins?' 'Seemed like a good idea at the time.

Morality has in the past made progress when we broadened the category of things we weren't permitted to harm (animals, 'infidels'); saw through some delusions and rationalisations about what harms are good for people themselves (prison punishment, hysterectomies for unhappy 1950s wives); and readjusted our for-the-good of others criteria so as to demand only reasonable sacrifices (ceasing to use children as handy chimney sweeps).

The linden, in the fervors of July, Hums with a louder concert. When the wind Sweeps the broad forest in its summer prime, As when some master-hand exulting sweeps The keys of some great organ, ye give forth The music of the woodland depths, a hymn Of gladness and of thanks.

Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, makes that and the action fine.

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

The seasons, like greater tides, ebb and flow across the continents. Spring advances up the United States at the average rate of about fifteen miles a day. It ascends mountainsides at the rate of about a hundred feet a day. It sweeps ahead like a flood of water, racing down the long valleys, creeping up hillsides in a rising tide. Most of us, like the man who lives on the bank of a river and watches the stream flow by, see only one phase of the movement of spring. Each year the season advances toward us out of the south, sweeps around us, goes flooding away to the north.

A legal broom's a moral chimney-sweeper, And that's the reason he himself's so dirty

No amount of rationalisation, reform, or Freudian analysis can quite annul the thrill of the chimney-corner whisper or the lonely wood.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.

Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.

Praise the invisible sun burning beyond the white cold sky, giving us light and the chimney's shadow.

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.

I got a flue shot and now my chimney works perfectly.

A power of Butterfly must be - The Aptitude to fly Meadows of Majesty concedes And easy Sweeps of Sky -

There's no way the new chimney will fall down, Lu. Not with you in charge. It wouldn't dare.

Death, like an overflowing stream, Sweeps us away: our life's a dream.