Gutter Quotes

#1. He had been drunk over in town, and laid in the gutter all night, and he was a sight to look at. A body would a thought he was Adam, he was just all mud.

Mark Twain

#2. If the garden of Eden really exists it does so moment by moment, fragmented and tough, cropping up like a fan of buddleia high up in the gutter of a deserted warehouse, or in a heap of frozen cabbages becoming luminous in the reflected light of roadside snow.

Helen Dunmore

#3. Some of us are looking at the stars, but all of us are living in the gutter.

Vann Chow

#4. But this wasn't a safe, controlled environment I was learning in. There were no bumper lanes to keep my ball out of the gutter.

Ransom Riggs

#5. Heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening. Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing. Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter.

Bob Dylan

#6. You threw a stone into a gutter it would only spurt filth in your face.

R.K. Narayan

#7. Every time you strip my sword, I owe you a kiss. How's that sound?" I bit my lip to keep from giggling.
"That sounds really dirty."
Patch waggled his brows. "Look whose mind just rolled into the gutter.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#8. I need to know that wherever I end up, in the stars or in the gutter, you're along for the ride.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#9. That's not the only thing love means. You just got your mind in the gutter.

Bryn Greenwood

#10. I control your funds. I don't control you. And I think, Mr. Harte, that had you all the money in the world, or sat penniless in a gutter, I still would not find you very likable.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#11. In any case I would cut myself a path to the throne even if some bastard-born herder had fathered me on a gutter-whore - genealogy can work for me or I can cut down the family tree and make a battering ram. Either way is good.

Mark Lawrence

#12. The greatest issue is to raise the question of birth control out of the gutter of obscenity ... into the light of intelligence and human understanding.

Margaret Sanger

#13. It is about being born downtrodden and staying that way. Hard work makes no difference, he is saying. My lot, the lots of those around me, were cast the moment we were born into the gutter to parents who never managed to step outside the gutter themselves.

Cathy Marie Buchanan

#14. Vomiting isn't bad either, take note. It is, in certain more obvious respects, a show of force. I have always liked this story 'A man holding with one hand to a one-way sign is vomiting into the gutter, another man goes past near him and tells him: "If you only knew how much I agree with you.

Jean Fremon

#15. A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny.

Michel Faber

#16. They choose to burn before the darkness, rather than gutter out like a dim flame.

Alison Croggon

#17. A white linen tablecloth
edged with pink roses --
Mama's favorite pattern --
flowed like a bride's train
from sidewalk to curb to gutter.
Papa stared at black boot marks
crossing it like sins.

Paul B. Janeczko

#18. I feel that I had been rescued from the gutter by America. One day I was under the gutter, chased by police, thinking dogs were going to get me. I laid there listening to the dogs and the gutter. The next day, there I am standing on the Olympic platform, and you hear the anthem. I was proud.

George Foreman

#19. I have a huge need for financial security; the emigrant in me has a fear of ending up homeless and in the gutter.

Ruth Behar

#20. Gut it is will move us from the gutter .. to the rebirth of real men.

Keorapetse Kgositsile

#21. England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

Daniel Day-Lewis

#22. I think the mirror should be tilted slightly upward when it's reflecting life
toward the cheerful, the tender, the compassionate, the brave, the funny, the encouraging, all those things
and not tilted down to the gutter part of the time, into the troubled vistas of conflict.

Greer Garson

#23. I just kept eating my hot dogs and bowling by myself. Bailey sometimes rolled a ball into a gutter. When I had them put up the bumpers for her, she managed to roll the ball into another alley and land in that gutter. The girl had a talent.

Bijou Hunter

#24. In a world where people are too languid to make something of themselves out of effort, I sell them hope. What they do with it is up to them. Invariably they drink it and then hurl it down a gutter, but that's their choice and their freedom. I won't judge them.

E.A.A. Wilson

#25. And the Top spoke no more of his old love; for that dies away when the beloved objects has lain for five years in a roof gutter and got wet through; yes, one does not know her again when one meets her in the dust box.

Hans Christian Andersen

#26. Have you dared to eat my son?
I laughed. Actually, it started out as more of a giggle that grew. Because my mind went straight to the gutter.

Jennifer Rardin

#27. Get your deprived, samall-town, romance-novel reading mind out of of the gutter, Becky.

Maureen A. Miller

#28. I look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand.

Winston Churchill

#29. I swear I'm not going to lose it, or drop it in the gutter, or give it to a homeless guy.

Julie Kagawa

#30. Just give hime five more minutes and he would surely fall into the German gutter and die. They would all let him, and they would all watch.

Then, one human.
Hans Hubermann.

Markus Zusak

#31. Then you start to see things, Lloydy-my-boy. Things you missed from the gutter. Like how the floor of the Wagon is nothing but straight pine boards, so fresh they're still bleeding sap, and if you took your shoes off you'd be sure to get a splinter.

Stephen King

#32. My mind may be in gutter, Abigail, but at least I'm looking at an angel!

Tom Conrad

#33. Mind out of the gutter, Suze. Eros is only one kind of love, eh? Ancient Greeks recognised four.

Peter Watts

#34. Bulges of fat appear around rump, deep gutter along back bone and over rump, breast bone covered in fat, thick fat roll on neck.

Bonnie R. Gross

#35. Either way, I have no wish to disturb a man sleeping in a gutter; I assume until proved otherwise that he belongs there.

Robert A. Heinlein

#36. When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#37. Get your head out of the gutter, baby. You Catholic girls and your filthy minds.

Tessa Bailey

#38. I've never been in this part of Trenton before. I don't feel comfortable driving around buildings that haven't got gang slogans sprayed on them. Look at this place. No boarded-up windows. No garbage in the gutter. No brothers selling goods on the street. Don't know how people can live like this.

Janet Evanovich

#39. Oh no, Trace Corbin. If you think for one second that we're going to - " "Going to what, Kylie Lou?" His face was the picture of innocence. She knew hers was likely glowing with embarrassment. "I see you have your mind in the gutter. Nice. I approve.

Caisey Quinn

#40. I'm a moron because I don't want to lie in a gutter puking over myself ... yeah right

Davey Havok

#41. I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#42. I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.

Anthony Kiedis

#43. Although the fact that someone was lying face-down in the street gutter and leaking blood into it did detract somewhat from the otherwise pleasant scene of life flowing through the less salubrious arteries of Crath City.

Mark Lawrence

#44. I have a recurring nightmare that I wake up in a gutter with nothing. I've had it all my life. That's why I work, I think.

Kevin McCloud

#45. [The] BBC was known as Auntie suggesting someone prudish and Victorian and that she still is on some days. On others she's a champagne-soaked floozie, her skirts in disarray, her mind in the gutter, and the mixture can be quite wonderful.

Morley Safer

#46. We dragged English guitar music out of the gutter.

Noel Gallagher

#47. I'm a weak character, without guts or ambition. I caught the brass ring and it shocked me to find out it wasn't gold. A guy like me has one big moment in his life, one perfect swing on the high trapeze. Then he spends the rest of his time trying not to fall off the sidewalk into the gutter.

Raymond Chandler

#48. I came from the gutter and i rose into a flower

Rayvon L. Browne

#49. Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it's work. Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighbourhood can stand for everything.

Stephen King

#50. I can't believe he didn't have the dignity and presence of mind just to get drunk and pass out in some gutter," said Jace. "I must say, I'm disappointed in the little fellow.

Cassandra Clare

#51. Charming hour of the day, particularly when, as sometimes happens, it is also that of the setting sun whose last rays, raking the street from end to end, lend to my cenotaph an interminable shadow, astraddle of the gutter and the sidewalk.

Samuel Beckett

#52. Watching me play, Stormy had once said that if I were to become a regular bowler, I would spend far more time in the gutter than would the average alcoholic hobo.

Dean Koontz

#53. Every last souvenir of the love we had, the prizes & the debris of this relationship, like the glitter in the gutter when the parade has passed, all the everything & whatnot kicked to the curb.

Daniel Handler

#54. In front of her the cat Greebo, glad to be home again, lay on his back with all four paws in the air, doing his celebrated something-found-in-the-gutter impersonation.

Terry Pratchett

#55. Free grace can go into the gutter, and bring up a jewel!

Charles Spurgeon

#56. As for himself, however hateful life was, it was hateful in a home and not in the gutter. Many Americans hated their homes. The number of homeless in America couldn't touch the number of Americans who had homes and families and hated the whole thing.

Philip Roth

#57. As an actor, you always have to reinvent yourself or you end up in the gutter somewhere. It's my job to always change people's minds. I've known that for a long time and I've had to do it.

Dylan McDermott

#58. Cab drivers are night-riding denizens of the first order. They view wretched foibles from a gutter perspective.

James Ellroy

#59. A rough should have high grass. When you go bowling they don't give you anything for landing in the gutter, do they?

Lee Trevino

#60. Your relationships will either make you or break you and there is no such thing as a neutral relationship. People either inspire you to greatness or pull you down in the gutter, it's that simple. No one fails alone, and no one succeeds alone.

Eric Thomas

#61. I surprise myself that I'm not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven't given up.

Miguel Syjuco

#62. The spirit is often most free when the body is satiated with pleasure; indeed, sometimes the stars shine more brightly seen from the gutter than from the hilltop.

W. Somerset Maugham

#63. I'm happy because - I'm not doing anything deceitful, I think, to my family. I'm successful because I don't have to sleep with one of my friends' girlfriends or wife or something. That's why I'm successful, that's success to me. I'm not dead, I'm not in the gutter - that's success to me.

Mike Tyson

#64. I offered you the world," she said. "When you're dying in a gutter, you remember that." "I'll make a point of it," he said.

Neil Gaiman

#65. A mate owned a Bryan Robson top. We were kicking about, and I asked if I could be Robbo for a while. My dad looked out and went ballistic. He wasn't having his kid dragging the Gerrard name through the gutter. I thought we'd have to move!

Steven Gerrard

#66. they won't help a hurt man up from the gutter due to the obligation it imposes.

Philip K. Dick

#67. Dearest Annie, Roses are red. Violets are blue. I'm using my hand But I'm thinking of you. - Ronan P.S. Just to clarify, I'm using my hand to write this note ... get your mind out of the gutter.

L. H. Cosway

#68. The terror, which would not end for another 28 years-if it ever did end-began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.

Stephen King

#69. All the words he used in the beginning were gutter words. He heard them and stored them in his brain. Now, as I walk in the street, I look at dogs with secret horror. WHo knows what is hidden in their heads?

Mikhail Bulgakov

#70. God often goes to the gutter to find the recipient for His grace. He lifts him out, washes him and transforms him - making him into a child of God fit for His kingdom. That is God's grace.

Chuck Smith

#71. The top of el Raton's head lay forgotten in the gutter across the street.

Anson Scott

#72. Better a king in the gutter,' he said, 'than a slave in an emperor's place

Joanne Harris

#73. He shrugged. "Who is John Galt?" "Oh, don't use gutter language!

Anonymous

#74. Any ballplayers that played for me on either the Cardinals or the Yankees could come to me if he were in need and I would give him a helping hand. I made only two exceptions, Carl Mays and Joe Bush. If they were in a gutter, I'd kick them.

Miller Huggins

#75. Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.

Gerald Priestland

#76. The distance between the limousine and the gutter is a short one.

Kinky Friedman

#77. I'm going to drink his blood, I'm going to chew up his heart and spit it into the gutter for the dogs to raise a leg at. I'm going to peel the skin off him and rip out his veins and hang him with them.

Richard Stark

#78. To the delight of the poetic little gutter boys in the little grey streets.

G.K. Chesterton

#79. The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were a boon and a path out of poverty.

Diane Ravitch

#80. The alleycats manipulate the blocks with gutter magic

Aesop Rock

#81. Stay out of the gutter in your conversation. Foul talk defiles the man who speaks it ... Don't swear. Don't profane. Avoid so-called dirty jokes. Stay away from conversation that is sprinkled with foul and filthy words. You will be happier if you do so, and your example will give strength to others.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#82. Homesickness for the gutter.

Emile Augier

#83. Nanny Piggins lost the Vegetable Peeling, Gutter Cleaning, and Long Division Explaining tests as well. She got caught telling Michael, 'Don't bother to learn that. Long division is a waste of brain space, when you can just buy a calculator.' Which is only the truth.

R.A. Spratt

#84. My preferences range from the gutter-like to the idyllically sublime, ideally with you roaming the range beside me...

Virginia Alison

#85. About five years ago I saw a mockingbird make a straight vertical descent from the roof gutter of a four-story building. It was an act as careless and spontaneous as the curl of a stem or the kindling of a star.

Annie Dillard

#86. I kept my head; I mean, I've never been one of those people who ended up in the gutter with sick in my hair.

Kate Winslet

#87. Each molecule of the gutter bore away a molecule of heat radiating from Gringoire's loins, and the equilibrium between the temperature of his body and the temperature of the brook, began to be established in rough fashion.

Anonymous

#88. The sluices of the grog-shop are fed from the wine-glasses in the parlor, and there is a lineal descent from the gentleman who hiccoughs at his elegant dinner-table to the sot who makes a bed of the gutter.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#89. I got one foot in the golden life, one foot in the gutter. So close to the other side, so far from the wonder. I got one foot in the golden life, one foot in the gutter. So sick of the tug of war, that keeps pulling me under

5 Seconds Of Summer

#90. I didn't mind being a goof if only he loved me. I felt when we were together that I walked in the gutter and he on the sidewalk. All I did was keep looking up to see if there was love in his eyes

Marilyn Monroe

#91. I have investigated the dust-heaps of humanity, and found a treasure in all of them. I have found that humanity is not incidentally engaged, but eternally and systematically engaged, in throwing gold into the gutter and diamonds into the sea.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#92. Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.

Patti Smith

#93. Apparently Burgess shares the gutter press assumption that those who achieve fame should be made to suffer from it.

Clive James

#94. This emperor was arbiter of the whole world at nineteen, and yet would have a man to be thirty before he could be fit to determine a dispute about a gutter.

Michel De Montaigne

#95. from his grasp. It bounced a few times, rebounded from the curb and then somersaulted after the ring into the gutter.

Matador

#96. So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept away into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days you can hear their chorus rushing kkpast.

Nicola Kraus

#97. I hesitate to get into the gutter with this guy.

Chet Huntley

#98. So there I was lying in the gutter. A man stopped and asked '"What's the matter? Did you fall over?" So I said "No. I've a bar of toffee in my back pocket and I was just trying to break it."

Chic Murray

#99. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

#100. Every man shall reap what he has sown, from the highest lord to the lowest gutter rat.

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