Famous quotes containing the words sweep and/or picking:
“Each should sweep the snow from before his own door and not worry about the frost on his neighbor’s roof.”
—Chinese proverb.
“In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)