Dumping Ground Quotes

#1. When I was in college, I worked at a state hospital that was a dumping ground for all manner of the criminally insane and 'mental defectives' as they called them back then. It was a horrible place, like Arkham, mostly in terms of total neglect of the inmates, so I wanted to write an Arkham story.

Ann Nocenti

#2. OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground.

Ambrose Bierce

#3. I saw 28 Days. I don't remember rehab being like a day camp or being that funny. Rehab is a dumping ground. It's a big landfill.

Charlie Sheen

#4. If he had listened to some of his advisors and had tried to make the Marshall Plan a political dumping ground for unqualified politicians, it couldn't have been a success.

Paul Hoffman

#5. Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.

Flannery O'Connor

#6. God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Jean Rostand

#7. We have to immediately stop using the oceans as a dumping ground for our urban and industrial waste.

Serge Dedina

#8. Drawing the desperate and the adrift, Los Angeles has long been the dumping ground of dreams both real and cinematic.

Steve Erickson

#9. American colonies were as much a dumping ground as an escape, a forgetting place.

Neil Gaiman

#10. The cosmetic industry seems to be a wholesale dumping ground for just about every single type of chemical that exists.

David Wolfe

#11. My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either.

Christopher Hitchens

#12. The world wants India to remain an import-based economy. Then India can be a dumping ground where gold can be dumped and other commodities such as oil and gas. They look at India as a huge market.

Anil Agarwal

#13. But his eyes, dimmed by many paintless days under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#14. We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.

Cecil Rhodes

#15. The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else's problems.

Donald Trump

#16. Do not make your mind a dumping ground for other people's garbage.

Ezra Taft Benson

#17. History is biology's dumping ground

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#18. ... for it is a very solemn thing to be arrested in the midst of busy life by the possibility of the great change.

Louisa May Alcott

#19. Fall is falling fast enough, there's no need to help it.

George R R Martin

#20. Anger bubbled up inside him so strong that he clenched his fist and silently promised his brother that he would pay for his boorish behavior.

Melanie Dickerson

#21. I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Thomas A. Edison

#22. You're a stalker with hooves."
"I am not! I followed her to the Big House and hid in a bush and watched the whole thing.

Rick Riordan

#23. The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one.

Robert Musil

#24. Talented people without discipline don't go anywhere.

Royce Gracie

#25. When you want knowledge and understanding as badly as you wanted air, you won't have to ask anyone to give it to you.

Sterling W. Sill

#26. Zen- Dojo Tozan was not in Sarnen or Thu but somewhere between the two, not in a village but in the tall grass and blue flowers.

Ann Patchett

#27. There are a lot of people walking around with long hair now and some trendy middle class kids in pretty clothes. But nothing changed except that we all dressed up a bit, leaving the same bastards running everything.

John Lennon

#28. I don't know who moves first, but suddenly we're kissing, like we've never kissed before. it's desperate. No tenderness. This is hard, starved-for-each-other kissing.

Samantha Towle

#29. Instead of setting goals, seek defining moments. Those are the real tests, because you have to be willing to fail in a pressure situation in front of other people.

Hugh Jackman

#30. Dumping the tent onto the ground, I studied it fiercely.
All right, I can do this. How hard can it be, really?
Kneeling, I picked up a long metal spike, frowning.
What in the world? Are you supposed to stab someone with these? Do tents come with vampire-slaying kits?

Julie Kagawa

#31. All camps are hard, that's what they're intended to be. They make you focus when you're tired, when you don't feel like doing things, and to see how long you can retain and pay attention.

Michael Strahan

#32. I'm not evil, I'm just very creative

Anonymous

#33. If acting doesn't work out, I plan to do food photography and just eat my way through the entire world. I'm a big foodie, and if I could make some career out of it, that would be fantastic.

Jamie Chung