Quotes about garbage

Betsey Johnson -

Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.

Felix Wantang - God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible

Everything Satan has to offer you is a collection of what Jesus rejected it is the garbage bin of Jesus Christ. Matthew 4:1-17.

Jodi Picoult - Handle with Care

I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.

Pat Buchanan -

Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.

David R. Brower -

There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!

Rebecca McNutt - Smog City

People never like pollution, it has become very wrong to like pollution at all. But just like there are good and bad things about people, there are good and bad things about pollution. If people were pollution we would get rid of anyone who was different, anyone who was considered an inconvenience… but we’d be getting rid of a life, a lot of lives… because we didn’t like them. If pollution was a person would we still be trying to get rid of it? Would we have environmentalists still complaining a

Amy Chua - Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

Once when I was young-maybe more than once-when I was extremely disrespectful to my mother, my father angrily called me "garbage" in our native Hokkien dialect. It worked really well. I felt terrible and deeply ashamed of what I had done. But it didn't damage my self esteem or anything like that. I knew exactly how highly he thought of me. I didn't actually think I was worthless or feel like a piece of garbage. As an adult, I once did the same thing to Sophie, calling her garbage in English when

Michael Caine -

January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.

Lake Bell -

I'm vegan on home base, but when I travel to other countries, I throw it all into the garbage.

R. L. Stine -

A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.

Tom Douglas -

I'm just sick of food going in the garbage.

Paula Creamer -

Someone has to take the garbage out, someone has to cook the food, and someone has to clean the dishes. I want to do all of that.

Rebecca McNutt - Hermione

… MOM!” Martha finally screamed. “Mom, you’ve got to see these!”“Is it about Hermione?” She exclaimed, rushing into the middle of the room. Her mouth dropped open in horror when she noticed Hermione’s walls.“I can’t find any… polite… photos of her, mom.”“Why are there ones of her eating out of dumpsters and giving seniors the finger?”“No idea,” Martha replied.“Oh god… I’ll get one out of my wallet,” Her mom decided, hurrying out of the room frantically. ...It’s funny how when one thing happens,

Mason Cooley -

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

Andy Rooney -

Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.

James C. Scott - The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

The larger the pile of rubble you leave behind, the larger your place in the historical record!

Jeanette Winterson - The World and Other Places: Stories

Look at all that rubbish," she said, watching the electric van slowly whirr from bin to bin, little men in gloves removing it all."They're taking it away," I said. "Where to?" she said. "It just gets moved around dearie, that's all.

John Brunner - The Sheep Look Up

The killers are the people who are ruining the world to line their pockets, poisoning us, burying us under garbage!

Edward Humes - Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash

Americans make more trash than anyone else on the planet, throwing away about 7.1 pounds per person per day, 365 days a year. Across a lifetime that rate means, on average, we are each on track to generate 102 tons of trash. Each of our bodies may occupy only one cemetery plot when we’re done with this world, but a single person’s 102-ton trash legacy will require the equivalent of 1,100 graves. Much of that refuse will outlast any grave marker, pharaoh’s pyramid or modern skyscraper: One of the

Yusuf A. Leinge -

Garbage, in its "worthless" state, is the primary fuel for creativity.

Aishabella Sheikh - Lavinia

I caught him by the collar and dumped him into the nearest bin."That's where people like YOU belong!" I spat at him as his legs wiggled in the air. "In the garbage!" - Chapter 2: Miserable Torture

Ken Poirot -

Take out the garbage...true happiness comes from within not from without!

M.F. Moonzajer - HATRED AND MADNESS

Your water is in the bottles, and my water is in the bucket, but we are brothers? I am collecting garbage, and you are in the bed, but we are sisters? My fingers are broken, and your hands are so soft, but we are family? Your God is like an angel, and my God is like an evil, but we are equal? My stomach is empty, and your stomach is so big, but we are humans?

John Steinbeck - Travels with Charley: In Search of America

American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash -- all of them -- surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered with rubbish. Everything we use comes in boxes, cartons, bins, the so-called packaging we love so much. The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if no other way, we can see the wild an reckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index. Driving along I thought how in France or Ita

J.R. Rim -

The garbage can is for things that have no importance. If it did have some value, it no longer has any.

Osayi Emokpae Lasisi - Impossible Is Stupid

Don't think you can watch all the romantic movies, soap operas, TV shows and read all the romantic books out there and not be affected. Ninety-nine percent of the romantic stuff out there is garbage... and what you put in always comes out... UGLIER!

Nick Krampus -

Reading the bible is like dumpster diving. You sift through the garbage hoping to find anything of value.

Jane Avrich - The Winter Without Milk: Stories

To know our refuse is to know ourselves. We mark our own trail from past to present with what we've used and consumed, fondled, rejected, outgrown.

Joseph Heller - Catch-22

The spirit gone, man is garbage.

Deb Caletti - The Secret Life of Prince Charming

It starts so young, and I'm angry about that. The garbage we're taught. About love, about what's "romantic." Look at so many of the so-called romantic figures in books and movies. Do we ever stop and think how many of them would cause serious and drastic unhappiness after The End? Why are sick and dangerous personality types so often shown a passionate and tragic and something to be longed for when those are the very ones you should run for your life from? Think about it. Heathcliff. Romeo. Don

Andy Warhol -

Just because people throw it out and don't have any use for it, doesn't mean it's garbage.

Jonathan Dunne - Hearts Anonymous

What do you mean? In Old Castle? I still live with my parents in case you haven’t noticed, Jack. Those two strangers – that man and woman sitting on my sofa – are actually my parents. Oh, you mean your place? Yes, let’s evict your parents…let’s place them neatly in a cardboard box and leave it by the rubbish bins!

Anthony Liccione -

Don't be in temper, to leave so quickly, that I may be dying. But all too soon, the leaves and debris will gather elsewhere.