Rotting Quotes

• You are either green and growing, or ripe and rotting.

  Frosty Westering

  Mcdonalds, Growing, Green

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• From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

  Edvard Munch

  Death, Flower, I Hate You

  "Sustainable Landscape Construction: A Guide to Green Building Outdoors". Book by William Thompson and Kim Sorvig, p. 30, 2007.

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• He who shall teach the child to doubtThe rotting grave shall ne'er get out.

  William Blake

  Children, Graves, Teach

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.96, Routledge

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• When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.

  Ray Kroc

  Motivational, Growing Up, Green

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing of it, but lie rotting in the earth - dead.

  Philip Gibbs

  Lying, World, Earth

  Philip Gibbs (1946). “The Pageant of the Years: An Autobiography”

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• The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere.

  Kim Novak

  People, Special, Reputation

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• My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?

  Bruce Sterling

  Ideas, Environmental, Parks

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• Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?

  Ray Kroc

  Inspirational, Mcdonalds, Growing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Truth, Cells, Hunters

  1973 'Fear and Loathing at the Superbowl', in Rolling Stone, 15 Feb.

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• If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Past, Cells, Years

  1973 'Fear and Loathing at the Superbowl', in Rolling Stone, 15 Feb.

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• It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.

  Bono

  Sweet, Cynical, Teeth

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• The moment passes. There is no point in regretting irreversible decisions—one has to live with them, and we try.

  Ekaterina Sedia

  Regret, Decision, Trying

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• Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Disease And Death, Political

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 4, l. 90

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• Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Roots, Intellectual, Odor

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.70, LSU Press

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• I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

  Jack London

  Inspirational, Life, Ambition

  Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.

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• Mama, Mama, help me get home I'm out in the woods, I am out on my own. I found me a werewolf, a nasty old mutt It showed me its teeth and went straight for my gut. Mama, Mama, help me get home I'm out in the woods, I am out on my own. I was stopped by a vampire, a rotting old wreck It showed me its teeth and went straight for my neck. Mama, Mama, put me to bed I won't make it home, I'm already half-dead. I met an Invalid, and fell for his art He showed me his smile, and went straight for my heart. -From "A Child's Walk Home," Nursery Rhymes and Folk Tales

  Lauren Oliver

  Art, Children, Home

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.39, Harper Collins

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• Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.

  Michael Pollan

  Real Food, Incapable

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.101, Penguin

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• To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the mark of the waning year, Yellow leaves carpeted the lanes and fluttered down upon us as we passed, The rattle of our wheels died away as we drove through drifts of rotting vegetation--sad gifts, as it seemed to me, for Nature to throw before the carriage of the returning heir of the Baskervilles.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Beautiful, Eye, Years

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection With illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories and 120+ illustrations”, p.790, Ageless Reads

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• Everybody's always asking me about my blood pressure. They did an interview once where they hooked me up to a blood pressure machine and they'd rile me. I'd yell and scream, and then it would just go back to normal in a few minutes. Everything else is probably rotting, but the blood pressure is spectacular.

  Lewis Black

  Blood, Machines, Asking

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• Nature, in her blind thirst for life has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Nature, Earth, Blind

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1980). “A Krutch omnibus: forty years of social and literary criticism”, William Morrow &Company

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• For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years or so, has been crazy enough to put a bomb up the asshole of creation and set it off. The world is rotting away, dying piecemeal. But it needs the coup de grace, it needs to be blown to smithereens. Not one of us is intact, and yet we have in us all the continents and the seas between the continents and the birds of the air. We are going to put it down ― the evolution of this world which has died but which has not been buried.

  Henry Miller

  Crazy, Men, Our World

  Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

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• As I look around, I get this sinking feeling that we're off track, that there's something sick in the soul of our country. I examine the fruit that's hanging on the tree of America, and I can see that it's rotting. And that concerns me deeply.

  Kirk Cameron

  Country, Sinking Feeling, America

  "Kirk Cameron speaks at CPAC" by Caitlin MvDevitt, www.politico.com. February 9, 2012.

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• Fruit often ends up rotting in the crisper drawer. Well, that's the wrong place to put it. Out of sight, out of mind. The kids all know where the junk-food shelf is. Make the fruit that easy to get to. Put a big huge bowl of fruit on the counter.

  Tyler Florence

  Kids, Sight, Mind

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• I'm a phallus in pigtails, and there's blood on my nose, and my tissue is rotting where the rats chew my bones. And my eye sockets empty, see nothing but pain, I keep having this brainstorm about twelve times a day.

  David Bowie

  Pain, Eye, Blood

  Song: Unwashed And Somewhat Slightly Dazed, Album: Space Oddity

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• I got dead bodies rotting in my Benz trunk. Trunk of funk, I call it.

  Bushwick Bill

  Order, Law, Body

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