Garbage Dump Quotes

#1. I make mistakes. That's what I do. I
speak without thinking, I act without
knowing. I drink so much that I can
barely walk ... I'm a fantastic lover
though, and an amazing friend. God
knows I mean well.

Candace Bushnell

#2. Imagine if we were capable of a form of empathy that lets us know one another by savoring the aura we leave on the things we have touched. We would go to a dump to get drunk on one another's souls.

Robin Nagle

#3. The dump was kind of like a department store for Ray, but even more like a holy cementery where he could organize abandoned dreams and wrecked things into families, in a way, that stayed together.

Miriam Toews

#4. We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.

Napoleon Hill

#5. I was going to be a musician, no matter what it took. I supported myself with blue-collared jobs so I could write music and be in a band and play shows. I even got into an underground art scene. I was going to do whatever.

Chris Cornell

#6. I have been a stranger in a foreign land.

Moses

#7. He imagined that in his estate of eternal night he might somehow have already halved the distance to death. That the transition for him could not be so great for the world was already at some certain distance and if it were not death's terrain he encroached upon in his darkness then whose?

Cormac McCarthy

#8. Don't just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

Joyce Meyer

#9. Metaphorically, the body becomes a machine to be driven or a garbage dump to be avoided. At the same time, the magnificent Mother in whose womb we live is mindlessly poisoned and raped. Surely, our insane denial has to be perceived and acted upon.

Marion Woodman

#10. We're all a garbage dump of dysfunction, but if you get in there and churn the problems, they turn to mulch faster so new things can grow out of them.

Felicia Day

#11. Rocky Marciano stood out in boxing like a rose in a garbage dump.

Rocky Marciano

#12. Incidentally, I only have one cavity, and as much as my dentist asks me to, I just can't bring myself to floss.

Stephen Chbosky

#13. It is a fearful mistake to believe that because our wishes are not accomplished they can do no harm.

Gertrude The Great

#14. And now the game is over, and a single pawn stands on that scorched board and its face is human after all.

Peter Watts

#15. There is no hell. The Witnesses believe hell is a mistranslation of Gehenna, which was an ancient garbage dump. They say that nonbelievers simply die at Armageddon, rather than being thrown into an inferno. "How can you have a kind and loving God who also roasts people?" he asks. I

A. J. Jacobs

#16. When I am in the city I have the impression that I am in a living room with crystal chandeliers, rugs of velvet, and satin cushions. And when I'm in the favela I have the impression that I'm a useless object, destined to be forever in a garbage dump.

Carolina Maria De Jesus

#17. I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got to go to the dump.

Tom Perrotta

#18. There is nothing more noble than putting yourself in the line of fire to save a life.

Monica Raymund

#19. The putrid carnal waste dump my skin and hair had become. An irate woman beating me with her placenta would have been more welcome than the copious amount of ... snot gluing my fingers together.

Cecy Robson

#20. Our favorite: a former garbage dump converted into a riverside park. I first ran there more than 30 years ago when a marathon passed through this park that later became home to Pre's Trail.

Joe Henderson

#21. Maybe they'd be interested in joining our bridge club." The last bridge my parents had anything to do with involved the Gansu Province, dynamite, and a really ticked-off yak, but I just smiled and said, "Thanks.

Ally Carter

#22. Beautiful things are durable things. Beautiful things you just do not deposit at a garbage dump.

Jan Kriekels

#23. I can never join Calvin in addressing his god. He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be; or rather his religion was Daemonism. If ever man worshipped a false god, he did.

Thomas Jefferson

#24. It's funny because 'West Wing' is similar to 'Game of Thrones' in some ways, as it was very hard to pull off back then.

Alex Graves

#25. Someday son all this will be yours. Father and son atop a garbage dump.

Kurt Vonnegut

#26. I suspect that a huge amount of the anxiety and suffering that we see around can be closely traced to our wanton misuse of our resources. Just look at any garbage dump and see what is wasted. In a sense, we've wasted our souls.

Jay Parini

#27. Life is just like a book. Only after you've read it do you know how it ends. It is when we are at the end of life that we know how our life ran. Mine, until now, has been black. As black as my skin. Black as the garbage dump where I live.

Carolina Maria De Jesus

#28. It's strange, isn't it? How humans can protect their own with such fierceness and loyalty, yet not blink an eye when it comes to destroying someone else.

Caroline Fyffe

#29. Don't you go and dump reality on us like a garbage truck.

Etgar Keret

#30. Life loves to take your perfect plans and dump a bucket of paint on them. It's your choice to call it garbage or make something beautiful of it.

Stephanie Erickson

#31. Death comes to us all, that is the only thing we can be certain of. It makes no difference whether it is a thief in a garbage dump or a policeman in the line of duty. When someone dies at the hands of another, the pain for the survivors is the same.

Kjell Eriksson