37 Quotes About Washing Your Hands

The simple act of hand washing can change your risk of disease and sickness. These quotes about washing your hands will encourage you to prioritize your hygiene and health.

“After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.”

“At the end of the day, I have to wash my face. I hate going to bed after a long day not washing my face. It’s something I’ve grown into. When I was younger, I didn’t care.”

“Drinking water is like washing out your insides. The water will cleanse the system, fill you up, decrease your caloric load and improve the function of all your tissues.”

“Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in the early morning, and all the sprinklers have turned off, the scents that wash over me are just heavenly. Being House is like flying, too. You’re free of the gravity of what people think.”

“English women would rather go out and buy a washing machine than shop for clothes.”

“Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.”

“I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.”

“I fell asleep once while washing dishes. I hallucinated prolifically – like, squirrels knitting whole sweaters! It was like my dreams inserted themselves in my waking life.”

“I grew up during the war years in a tiny cottage with no electricity. Water for washing was pumped from a pond. My brother and I had to fetch drinking water from a tap at the end of the lane, and light was from candles, paraffin lamps, and our nightly log fire.”

“I was more ashamed that I couldn’t work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.”

“If I wasn’t writing poems I’d be washing my hands all the time.”

“I’m going to be a happy housewife. I’m going to be washing boxers and cooking and doing all those sorts of housewife duties. I just want to be happy and proud of every single day.”

“I’m made to ride a bike, not do washing.”

“In a way it was like washing your laundry in public and, yep, there you go, you’ve seen my underwear. And now I feel like there’s nothing left, you’ve seen it all and I can get on.”

“Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”

“Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.”

“Most days it feels as if the world is whirling around me and I am standing still. In slow motion, I watch the colors blur; people and faces all become a massive wash.”

“My creative process is quite slow. I hear melodies in my head while I’m washing the dishes and I allow my subconscious to do the work.”

“My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing.”

“My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.”

“My writing process is a mix of research, personal experiences, washing the dishes, raising kids while thinking – then writing.”

“Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.”

“Respectability in this country was a bad word because people did things who were in respected professions that let down the entire nation, and we’re washing away their sins yet.”

“Sex is like washing your face – just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it.”

“Sometimes, writing songs is like waiting in for deliveries. They give you a window, and your washing machine is going to show up, whether the window is the album or something you’re thinking, like, ‘This thing is going to come to me.'”

“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”

“The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.”

“These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I’m washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles. The ones that you sing when you’re driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.”

“Things we write down are the fragments shored against our ruins. They outlast us, these scraps of words on paper. Like the detritus from the tsunami washing up on the other side of the ocean, writing is what can be salvaged.”

“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”

“Vacuuming is great. I do the laundry. I love washing machines. I’m the maid in my house.”

“Washing dishes gave me the sense of empowerment and feeling that I control my destiny.”

“Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.”

“We are washed both on coming into the world and on going out of it, and we take no pleasure from the first washing nor any profit from the last.”

“When I was in primary school, my best friend was a boy and we always goofed around, climbed trees, got holes in my trousers and muddied all my tops and things like that; a complete nightmare for the washing, but great fun.”

“When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself.”

“Women basically want the same thing – a good passionate story, a great fantasy – and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.”

Establishing a positive routine can positively affect your behavior and health.