Garbage Quotes - Page 9

Often we treat certain aspects of ourselves as junk, having no value. We try to throw parts of ourselves in the garbage. But a human being is an ecosystem, and everything in that system is of value to the whole.

Stephen Schwartz

Compassion, Ecosystems, Trying

"The Prayer Of The Body". Interview by Sy Safransky, thesunmagazine.org. October 1992.

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Places matter. Their rules, their scale, their design include or exclude civil society, pedestrianism, equality, diversity (economic and otherwise), understanding of where water comes from and garbage goes, consumption or conservation. They map our lives.

Rebecca Solnit

Water, Diversity, Design

Rebecca Solnit (2008). “Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics”, p.9, Univ of California Press

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Hullie's a lot like a garbage can. You step on the pedal with your foot and the top opens up.

Wayne Gretzky

Hockey, Nhl, Garbage Cans

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Why is meditation essential? By meditating we take our garbage out.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Spiritual, Meditation, Essentials

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Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window, and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all.

Joseph Heller

Fall, Men, Fire

Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.404, Simon and Schuster

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But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated each from the other; so fierce is the world's ridicule we cannot speak or show our tenderness; for us, death is stronger than life, it pulls like a wind through the dark, all our cries burlesqued in joyless laughter; and with the garbage of loneliness stuffed down us until our guts burst bleeding green, we go screaming round the world, dying in our rented rooms, nightmare hotels, eternal homes of the transient heart.

Truman Capote

Laughter, Children, Loneliness

Truman Capote (2007). “Other Voices, Other Rooms”, p.124, Vintage

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Look, I'm just this kid from Toronto who got his start in school plays. I still live with my folks who make me mow the grass and take the garbage out. Then one day, I'm on this multimillion dollar set surrounded by R2D2 and C3PO. Every nuance was surreal. The saber. A thrill. The outfit and cloak? Mind-boggling. Meeting R2D2. An out-of-body experience.

Hayden Christensen

School, Kids, Play

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The beautiful came to this city [Hollywood] in huge pathetic herds, to suffer, to be humiliated, to see the powerful currency of their beauty devalued like the Russian ruble or Argentine peso;to work as bellhops, as bar hostesses, as garbage collectors, as maids. The city was a cliff and they were its stampeding lemmings. At the foot of the cliff was the valley of the broken dolls.

Salman Rushdie

Beautiful, Powerful, Feet

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The Pavlik fight was the first time I heard the masses put the word knockout attached to my opponent. I'm real keen on what people say. Ninety percent of it might be garbage, but something in there might be the plan. That woke me up and I knew I wanted to destroy.

Bernard Hopkins

Real, Fighting, People

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I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he's like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.

Bobby Fischer

Play, Different, Genius

Radio Interview, www.geocities.jp. July, 6 2001.

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We no longer see the world as a single entity. We've moved to cities and we think the economy is what gives us our life, that if the economy is strong we can afford garbage collection and sewage disposal and fresh food and water and electricity. We go through life thinking that money is the key to having whatever we want, without regard to what it does to the rest of the world.

David Suzuki

Life, Strong, Thinking

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These powerbrokers, which bomb innocent countries and slaughter people, and, you know, pump the food chain full of garbage and just everything else they do, it's probably something fun for them. They really get off on being bad little boys.

Alex Jones

Country, Fun, Power

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In the big city, if the man next door happens to be a slum landlord, a Mafia bag man, or a long distance runner, what does it matter, as long as he puts his garbage out on Tuesdays?

Hal Higdon

Running, Distance, Men

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If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.

Robert Sewell

Java, Execution, Computer

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Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastrophe. The garbage can still overflow, the bills arrive in the mail, telemarketers, interrupt dinner.

Jodi Picoult

Garbage Cans, Details, Goes On

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Now suzanne takes you hand And she leads you to the river She is wearing rags and feathers From salvation army counters And the sun pours down like honey On our lady of the harbour And she shows you where to look Among the garbage and the flowers There are heroes in the seaweed There are children in the morning They are leaning out for love And they will lean that way forever While suzanne holds the mirror And you want to travel with her And you want to travel blind And you know that she will trust you For shes touched your perfect body with her mind.

Leonard Cohen

Morning, Children, Hero

Leonard Cohen, “Suzanne”

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That said, I, Beck Phillips, take full responsibility for being stuck in m y school's pitch-black venting system with my friend Jason, behind me and a garbage bag full of angry bees in front of me.

Obert Skye

School, Responsibility, Black

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I will be known forever as the Puppy who chased a cutpurse and caught fish garbage instead. My descendants will pretend I'm not in their bloodline. No – no one will want to make descendants with me. [from Beka Cooper's journal of her first day as a new Dog i.e. cop]

Tamora Pierce

Dog, Forever, Want

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Sure, in a ninja's world, those who violate the rules and fail to follow orders...are lower than garbage. However...those who do not care for and support their fellows...are even lower than that!" - Obito Uchiha

Masashi Kishimoto

Order, Support, World

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One of us had loved the other more perfectly, had watched the other more closely, and one of us listened and the other hadn’t, and one of us held on to the ambition of the one idea far longer than was reasonable, whereas the other, passing a garbage can one night, had casually thrown it away.

Nicole Krauss

Love, Ambition, Night

Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.39, W. W. Norton & Company

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Maybe she thought the garbage and rocks in your head were interesting. But finally, garbage is garbage and rocks are rocks.

Haruki Murakami

Rocks, Interesting

"The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1995.

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In her glamorous quest for the darkest light and the lowest high, she now found herself wallowing on the bottom of a filthy garbage bin.

Terri Blackstock

Light, Quests, Wallowing

FaceBook post by Terri Blackstock from Jul 23, 2012

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There was nothing particularly wrong with them; they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage.

Robert Penn Warren

Garden, Ordinary, Humans

Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.458, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Love is the grand prize and the garbage heap. Love is a spiritual root canal and the only thing that makes life worth living. Love is a little taste of always and a big bite of nothing. And love is everything in between these extremes.

Robert Fulghum

Spiritual, Love Is, Roots

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she committed suicide by putting her extremities down the garbage disposal-first one arm and then, kind of miraculously if you think about it, the other arm.

David Foster Wallace

Suicide, Thinking, Garbage Disposal

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