30 Quotes About Garbage

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 Juan. Jay Gatsby. Rochester. Mr. Darcy. From the rigid control freak in The Sound of Music to all the bad boys some woman goes running to the airport to catch in the last minute of every romantic comedy. She should let him leave. Your time is so valuable, and look at these guys--depressive and moody and violent and immature and self-centered. And what about the big daddy of them all, Prince Charming? What was his secret life? We dont know anything about him, other then he looks good and comes to the rescue. Deb Caletti

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! Jonathan Dunne

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

The spirit gone, man is garbage. Joseph Heller

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 and protesting and trying to get rid of all pollution?. Rebecca McNutt

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 she acted extremely disrespectful toward me. When I mentioned I had done this at a dinner party, I was immediately ostracized. One guest named Marcy got so upset she broke down in tears and had to leave early. My friend Susan, the host, tried to rehabilitate me with the remaining guests. "Oh dear, it's just a misunderstanding. Amy was speaking metaphorically-right, Amy? you didn't actually call Sophie 'garbage.'""Um, yes I did. But it's all in the context, " I tried to explain. "It's a Chinese immigrant thing. Amy Chua

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

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

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 Italy every item of these thrown-out things would have been saved and used for something. This is not said in criticism of one system or the other but I do wonder whether there will come a time when we can no longer afford our wastefulness -- chemical wastes in the rivers, metal wastes everywhere, and atomic wastes buried deep in the earth or sunk in the sea. When an Indian village became too deep in its own filth, the inhabitants moved. And we have no place to which to move. John Steinbeck

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? M.F. Moonzajer

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

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 Aishabella Sheikh

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 few relics of our civilization guaranteed to be recognizable twenty thousand years from now is the potato chip bag. . Edward Humes

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. Jeanette Winterson

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

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

… 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, it can make you forget about something else. Rebecca McNutt

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. Andy Rooney

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage. Mason Cooley

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

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

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. Paula Creamer

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

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

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

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. Pat Buchanan

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