Bathwater Quotes

#1. My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan's life. It is for the most part sweetish, with a tart edge of rebuke, but disappointingly free of dirt or particulate matter of any kind.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#2. And he'd said nothing or something that amounted to nothing, and I tongued this memory like a burn in my mouth until the bathwater cooled and shook me back into my body where my fingerprints were ruffled.

Catherine Lacey

#3. In recent years, even as the court has become an increasingly political body, the Senate is not focused on preserving any perceived ideological balance when Democrat presidents have appointed people to the court.

Sam Brownback

#4. You don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, but you want to get rid of the bathwater so the baby can swim the next couple of days and be OK.

Greg Norman

#5. If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the market sense of the word so the language to me is most intimate, most important, most sublime and most satisfying when it gets done.

Thomas Lynch

#6. And you've got a boy right there who looks at you like he would drink your bathwater if you'd ask him!

Abbi Glines

#7. Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.

Karl Kraus

#8. We can't keep living with what other people want for us, or don't want for us," Yena said. "We have to live for what we want. But everything that's in your head, the things you've been told to believe and do, you can't just throw it all out like bathwater, even when you know it's hurting you. So

Foz Meadows

#9. Don't drink your bathwater and don't pee on your feet.

James Gary Vineyard

#10. Our eyes captures thousands of beautiful pictures everyday.

Pradeepa Pandiyan

#11. I'm learning to say 'y'all' and I like grits. Strange things are happening to me.

Mitt Romney

#12. Decision-making is a skill. Wisdom is a leadership trait.

Mark Miller

#13. We [women] have earned the right to forget about stupefying household busywork. But kitchens where food is cooked and eaten - those were really a good idea. We threw that baby out with the bathwater.

Barbara Kingsolver

#14. One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.

Val McDermid

#15. And humanism - that transcendent vision that spans centuries and religions in its celebration of reason, responsibility, art, and examined lives - has been tossed out like old bathwater, leaving humanity naked and shivering on the dirty ground. He

Jean Hegland

#16. Chesterton had an incorrigible and persistent tendency to throw-the-baby-out-with-the-bathwater.

R. Alan Woods

#17. It's funny. That feeling of home. It's so temporary, like bathwater: the warmth eventually grows cold.

K.M. Alexander

#18. I've spent my whole life pushing sugar. People aren't going to stop eating sugar-we shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater. When you're with a group of people and you take a bite of a really great dessert, the conversation just stops. We don't want to get rid of those moments.

Emily Luchetti

#19. Fred shook his head again, this time giving Holden the vaguely frightened look of a man who wanted to back slowly out of the room.

James S.A. Corey

#20. I fail to see how somebody can hate me for 'what I do' and what I am without actually hating me as a person. That makes about as much sense as throwing the baby out with the bathwater - or gay man out the church door with his homosexuality.

Christina Engela

#21. Yet, we must never 'throw the baby out with the bathwater'".

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods