Cardboard Boxes Quotes

• Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mom, Mother, Years

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• I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

  Ellen Goodman

  Social Values, Recycling, Boxes

  "Saigon Swap". www.nytimes.com. June 10, 1990.

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• I could party in a cardboard box with people who are funny and don't care. For me, it's really about who I surround myself with, so I just try to always be with hilarious people.

  Kesha

  Funny, Party, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Secure web servers are the equivalent of heavy armoured cars. The problem is, they are being used to transfer rolls of coins and cheques written in crayon by people on park benches to merchants doing business in cardboard boxes from beneath highway bridges. Further, the roads are subject to random detours, anyone with a screwdriver can control the traffic lights, and there are no police.

  Gene Spafford

  Light, Bridges, People

  Simson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford (1997). “Web Security & Commerce”, O'Reilly Media

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• My first playpen was a cardboard box.

  Michael Lee-Chin

  Firsts, Boxes

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• Once upon a time there were three little foxes
  Who didn't wear stockings, and they didn't wear sockses,
  But they all had handkerchiefs to blow their noses,
  And they kept their handkerchiefs in cardboard boxes.

  A. A. Milne

  Blow, Once Upon A Time, Foxes

  A. A. Milne (2011). “When We Were Very Young”, p.48, Egmont UK

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• I feel as though the cardboard box of my own reality has been flattened and blown open. Now I can see the edge of the world.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Reality, World, Boxes

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• God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.

  Bono

  Inspirational, Mother, Children

  Keynote Address at the 54th National Prayer Breakfast, delivered 2 February 2006, The Hilton Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C.

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• I think that one of the visions that is closest to reality is the cardboard city in the subway station in Tokyo, which is based very closely on a series of documentary photographs of people living like that and of the contents of the boxes. Those are quite haunting because Tokyo homeless people reiterate the whole nature of living in Tokyo in these cardboard boxes, they're only slightly smaller than Tokyo apartments, and they have almost as many consumer goods. It's a nightmare of boxes within boxes.

  William Gibson

  Reality, Thinking, Cities

  Source: craphound.com

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• I don't live for stuff and things, and if I had to live in a cardboard box, I would put curtains on it.

  Carmen Dell'Orefice

  Stuff, Boxes, Curtains

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• I could find David Beckham naked in a cardboard box on my doorstep and I would drop him off at the pound.

  Olivia Wilde

  Naked, Pounds, Boxes

  "Olivia Wilde, Rashida Jones, Zosia Mamet Talk Sex & Why ‘You Can’t Lie To Your Vagina’" by Emma Gray, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 9, 2012.

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• I carry a knife with me so I can cut images out of cardboard boxes. I'm always cutting cardboard. Especially every Thursday, which is recycling day.

  Micah Lexier

  Cutting, Knives, Thursday

  "A Believer Excerpt From Sheila Heti’s Interview With Artist Micah Lexier". Interview with Sheila Heti, www.mcsweeneys.net. October 11, 2013.

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• So sweep away the sand an' dry the ocean, an' just pack the moon an' stars up in a cardboard box. And stop the clouds from chimin', block the sun from shinin',an' paint the sky a deeper shade of blue, 'cause my world's over without you.

  Kenny Rogers

  Sweet, Stars, Block

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• My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts, plays and books.

  William Nicholson

  Book, Play, Scripts

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• I don't come from a rich family - it's not like we lived in a cardboard box, but we didn't have a ton of money.

  Jessica Lynch

  Rich Family, Rich, Boxes

  "I'm Jessica Lynch and Here's My Real Story" by Abigail Pesta, www.glamour.com. June 3, 2007.

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• Trying to explain or define grace is like catching the wind in a cardboard box or describing the color green.

  Cathleen Falsani

  Color, Wind, Grace

  Cathleen Falsani (2008). “Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covered in tinfoil, but I was so shy I refused to go on stage.

  Jessica Raine

  Acting, Goes On, Firsts

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm very crafty! One time I made a television set out of a cardboard box - Everybody thought it was a lark! This was the beginning of a love affair with the arts.

  Emma Watson

  Art, Larks, Television

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Now I got a time machine at home. It only goes foreword at regular speed. It's essentially a cardboard box and on the outside I wrote time machine in sharpie.

  Demetri Martin

  Home, Machines, Speed

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• Cryptography [without system integrity] is like investing in an armored car to carry money between a customer living in a cardboard box and a person doing business on a park bench.

  Gene Spafford

  Integrity, Car, Investing

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• I do not share the general view that market forces are the basis for political liberty. Every time I see a homeless person living in a cardboard box in London, I see that person as a victim of market forces. Everytime I see a pensioner who cannot manage, I know that he is a victim of market forces

  Tony Benn

  Views, Political, Liberty

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• Then, finally, the third year, begging the parents, I got the Superman Halloween costume. Cardboard box, self-made top, mask included. Remember the rubber band on the back of that mask? That was a quality item there, wasn't it? That was good for about 10 seconds before it snapped out of that cheap little staple they put it in there with.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Halloween, Self, Years

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• Nudge threw her arms around my neck. 'I love you Max! I love all of us too!' Yeah, me too,' Said the Gasman. 'I don't care if we have our house, or a cliff ledge, or a cardboard box. Home is wherever we all are, together.

  James Patterson

  Love You, Home, House

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• I do not want to heap coals of fire on anyone's head, but I would like to advise those who keep the living thought of the dead hidden away in cardboard boxes, to pass on as quickly as possibly such explosive material, whose only legitimate heir is the whole world, that is to say, my neighbor.

  Pierre Schaeffer

  Fire, Coal, World

  "The Old Man and His Movements" by Pierre Schaeffer, 1964.

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• Using encryption on the Internet is the equivalent of arranging an armored car to deliver credit card information from someone living in a cardboard box to someone living on a park bench.

  Gene Spafford

  Car, Encryption, Credit

  "Rants & Raves", www.wired.com. November 25, 2002.

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