Jars With Sayings

#1. We play hide-and-seek, wade into her ponds to fill jam jars with writhing tadpoles, and cavort with her pack of dogs, named Brandy, Whiskey, Lager, so that just calling the pack makes one feel light-headed and drunk.

Nayomi Munaweera

#2. He seized a bucket and plunging it into one of the half jars took up three hens and a couple of geese,

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#3. Jars neither of wine nor of water shall fail in the houses of the rich.

Aeschylus

#4. Amazing tributaries feeding where the rivers will never flow....

Jars Of Clay

#5. We do not thieve the peckers of men who've spurned us and squirrel them away in glass jars.

Camille DeAngelis

#6. His love for me seemed to overflow my limits by its flood of wealth and service. But my necessity was more for giving than foe receiving; for love is a vagabond, who can make his flowers bloom in the wayside dust, better than in the crystal jars kept in the drawing-room.

Rabindranath Tagore

#7. Let every man be free to act from his own conscience; but let him remember that other people have consciences too; and let not his liberty be so expansive that in its indulgence it jars and crashes against the liberty of others.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#8. They came back
To widows,
To fatherless children,
To screams, to sobbing.
The men came back
As little clay jars
Full of sharp cinders.

Aeschylus

#9. I don't know when pepper mills in a restaurant got to be right behind frankincense and myrrh in prominence. It used to be in a little jar that sat next to the salt on the table and everyone passed it around, sneezed, and it was no big deal.

Erma Bombeck

#10. On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.

Bruce Willis

#11. When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.

Thomas Carlyle

#12. If it doesn't have siamese twins in a jar, it is not a fair.

Homer

#13. It is not the being paid money in advance that jars the sensitive artist: it is the having to work.

P.G. Wodehouse

#14. [I spent] much of my time reminding Matt Groening that I really need to be a head in a jar on Futurama.

Neil Gaiman

#15. He wants the jars that have caught the morning light; I think he believes they hold little pieces of the sun.

Lauren DeStefano

#16. If I had done everything I'm credited with, I'd be speaking to you from a laboratory jar at Harvard.

Frank Sinatra

#17. the counters and center island were crammed with mason jars and novelty saltshakers and cookie jars in the shapes of cats, blimps, pumpkins, frogs, robots, potbellied demons, and other things.

Tim Pratt

#18. A bit reluctantly, trying to leave my bruised ego behind, I was warming to the Appalachian idea.
Bourbon and branch water. Dulcimer music. Wildflowers in jelly jars. Biscuits and country ham. That did have a certain charm.

Judith Fertig

#19. Day and night my thoughts incline To the blandishments of wine, Jars were made to drain, I think; Wine, I know, was made to drink.

Richard Henry Stoddard

#20. Sometimes they just literally didn't know what we were talking about. Just as I was not familiar with the completely normal custom of pissing in jars, they had never been handed a fifteen-year-old Kotex product by the school nurse. But they

Tina Fey

#21. My husband perpetually makes fun of me about my creams and my jars and potions and lotions, but its simpler than anyone makes it: clean, tone, keep yourself moisturized. The rest is internal: Protect yourself from the sun and drink water.

Brooke Shields

#22. Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.

Wallace Stegner

#23. Men could not part us with their worldly jars,
Nor the seas change us, nor the tempests bend;
Our hands would touch for all the mountain-bars,
And, heaven being rolled between us at the end,
We should but vow the faster for the stars.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#24. If I could store lightnings in jars, I'd sell them to sick fireflies to light their way. Only they have nothing to pay for it with but life.

Will Advise

#25. Pissing in jars, they had never been handed a fifteen-year-old Kotex product by the school nurse. But they trusted me and Paula, so I'm proud to say we made

Tina Fey

#26. the next time you listen to Borodin remember his wife used his compositions to line the cat boxes with or to cover jars of sour milk;

Charles Bukowski

#27. What, Sheamus? Oh no, I can see him ... he's pretty pale ... What? oh no, he's even whiter than that. He's like a jar of mayonaisse with eyeballs and a ketchup haircut.

John Cena

#28. Some people walk with oceans in their hearts; some just with jars of water. Drink from both.

Eric Onyango Otieno

#29. ran along the stone wall. Two years ago this pantry had been full to overflowing with hams smoked in ash and jars full of duck fat set beside coils of sausage. Bottles of aged champagne

Kristin Hannah

#30. I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted.

Amory Lovins

#31. We don't just show up on stage; we bring along the oil of praise in jars of practice and rehearsal so that when the Lord shows up, our worship shines as the light with which His Church shall welcome Him!

Gangai Victor

#32. I'm collector of stuff that people make with their brain. I keep them in little jars and I take them out and play with them sometimes too. The stuff, not the people.

Frances Winkler

#33. I went to the trash pile at Tuskegee Institute and started my laboratory with bottles, old fruit jars and any other thing I found I could use ... [The early efforts were] worked out almost wholly on top of my flat topped writing desk and with teacups, glasses, bottles and reagents I made myself.

George Washington Carver

#34. I think about how Grandpa Z says the sky is blue because it's dusty and octopuses can unscrew the tops off jars and starfish have eyes at the tips of their arms. I think: No matter what happens, no matter how wretched and gloomy everything can get, at least Mrs. Sabo got to feel this.

Anthony Doerr

#35. Nashville is wicked. It's like a proper music community, but it's also quintessentially American. You bump into people there with cowboy hats that spit in jars and call you 'boy.' I just love that.

Ed Sheeran

#36. Once my jars were labeled, I felt contentedly thrilled with myself, as if I had pulled off a wonderful trick. People feel this way when they bake bread or have babies, and although they are perfectly entitled to feel that way, in fact, nature does most of the work.

Laurie Colwin

#37. We now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust's jars of preserves in a larder, but are transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and recategorized with every act of recollection.

Oliver Sacks

#38. Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.

Homer

#39. And the time to say it was days ago, perhaps weeks ago, but it was never said. Like the fireflies she used to keep in Mason jars, the promise of its telling had glowed intermittently.
"I love you," he said. And now the fireflies shone with a constant light.

Kathy Hepinstall

#40. Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.

Jane Fonda

#41. Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.

Stephen King

#42. But then what does it matter whence comes the gentle nudge that jars the soul into motion and sets it rolling, doomed never again to stop?

Vladimir Nabokov

#43. Jealousy is a kind of Civil War in the Soul, where Judgment and Imagination are at perpetual Jars.

Various

#44. Gnats drifted on the same warm summer breeze that saw colorful paper lanterns swaying on their strings. Lily of the valley filled jam jars at each table, but sweet peas had won out in the battle to fragrance the evening air.

Anouska Knight

#45. We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.

Quincy Jones

#46. Gave up Nutella in December 2011. A few years later I thought I would be able to handle the Nutella once more so I bought two jars on sale. I ate 4,000 calories of Nutella over 36 hours.

Gretchen Rubin

#47. Pickle jars are just pickle jars, and pickles are just pickles.

Regina Spektor

#48. Dancing? Not only do I have two left feet, but they're different sizes. And I don't put them in shoes - I store them in glass jars in my basement.

Jarod Kintz

#49. Conflict, which rouses up the best and highest powers in some characters, in others not only jars the whole being, but paralyzes the faculties.

Anna Brownell Jameson

#50. My daughter's tricycle said "Some Assembly Required." It came in a jar.

Ray Romano

#51. People who buy the little jars and boxes aren't staying. They only want enough to last them while they're here.
Ginger the Checkout girl from The Great Northern Coven

Bruce Jenvey

#52. Nobody sells native advertising better than BuzzFeed, with an entire staff devoted to creating its trademark listicles and quizzes just for sponsors: How To Rank Your Happiness By Jars Of Nutella

Jeff Jarvis

#53. I wish," I said. "I could save orgasms in a jar for when I need them, because I think I have a few extra.

Charlaine Harris

#54. My life will never be extravagant; it will be simple, but I promise it will be filled with love, laughter, and stars released from jars, when I catch enough fireflies. ~Elijah Dirk "Epitaphs from the Afterlife

Autumn Rosen

#55. Jimmy: You'll end up like one of those chocolate merengues my wife is so fond of [Alison starts banging jars] ... sweet and sticky on the outside, and sink your teeth in it [savouring every word]-inside, all white, messy and disgusting. [offering teapot sweetly to Helena] Milk?

John Osborne

#56. Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water. There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The 'I' is the jar.

Ramakrishna

#57. I knew then that no matter how hard you tried, no matter how many jars of honey you threw, no matter how much you thought you could leave your mother behind, she would never disappear from the tender places in you.

Sue Monk Kidd

#58. I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.

Harlan Miller

#59. You know what rumors are like-like a jar full of moths. Once they escape, they're all over the place.

Rhys Bowen

#60. My face I don't mind it,
Because I'm behind it
'Tis the folks in the front that I jar.

Anthony Euwer

#61. I was reading a magazine when I was a little kid, probably about twelve years old, and an ad said that if you sell so many jars of Noxzema skin cream, we'll sell you a ukulele. So I went out and banged on doors in the snow in Quincy, Massachusetts, where I was raised, and I sold the skin cream.

Dick Dale

#62. We can let the energy of love flow instead of placing it in a jar and leaving it aside.

Paulo Coelho

#63. I have learned about bulk shopping in my four weeks as a Mississippi River resident. Republicans go to Sam's Club, Democrats go to Costco. But everyone buys bulk because - unlike Manhattanites - they all have space to store twenty-four jars of sweet pickles.

Gillian Flynn

#64. It was a large room, heavily outfitted with the usual badly ventilated furnaces, rows of bubbling crucibles, and one stuffed alligator. Things floated in jars. The air smelled of a limited life expectancy.

Terry Pratchett

#65. Fireflies Hey, fireflies! Fly higher, guys! Fly high above this place. Till a sky rise is a wire's size. Then fly off into space. I catch stupid bugs in jars but you're not bugs you're baby stars!

Bo Burnham

#66. She walked among the stars,
The princess of the heavens,
Looking for the one who caught her crystal tears
That spilled out from liquid ice blue eyes-
Rolling down pale cheeks-
Then sealed up tenderly ...
In pearl alabaster jars ...

Kallista Pendragon

#67. I love, love, love apricot baby food. My closet in the kitchen is filled with jars of it. I love Lucky Charms and Cocoa Pebbles cereal. I love my purple couch, and I love dancing. I used to have the best stuffed animals, but Samson [her dog] ate them.

Alicia Silverstone

#68. Sometimes at drive-thrus I go into Winnie the Pooh and ask for a jar of honey.

Jim Cummings

#69. Also, Ares developed a serious fear of jars. I think I'm going to get him a nice one for Christmas.

Rick Riordan

#70. My parents had job jars because my father would say, 'Kids today have too much time, too much money and no responsibility. You're going to have no time, no money and a lot of responsibility.'

Denise Morrison

#71. When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.

Taylor Swift

#72. I have a jar at home, and I put pennies in it whenever I curse. The other day I spilled the jar. I owe it about $25.

Demetri Martin

#73. I have taxidermy pets that are very close to me. I have a little lizard with a head that comes on and off that I call Nicolas Cage because his face is long. And I have a big diamondback rattlesnake called Rufus, and I have some rats in jars and stuff.

Mackenzie Davis

#74. There are times when the mirth of others only saddens us, especially the mirth of children with high spirits, that jar on our own quiet mood.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#75. Referencing 2 Corinthians 4:6, Robert Hewitt compares jars of clay in the first century to the same value we would put on a cardboard box. Joni Eareckson Tada queries whether we would question God's right to leave some holes in the box in order to give glimpses of the treasure inside

Joni Eareckson Tada

#76. As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.

Victoria Moran

#77. My words are little jars For you to take and put upon a shelf. Their shapes are quaint and beautiful, And they have many pleasant colours and lustres To recommend them. Also the scent from them fills the room With sweetness of flowers and crushed grasses.

Amy Lowell

#78. I got confused. I thought it was a K.Y. scare, so I bought 2000 jars of personal lubricant. I still have some.

Julie Brown

#79. As we make our way around the supermarket, I load in the essentials and Jesse loads in a dozen jars of peanut butter, a few jars of chocolate spread and a several cans of squirty cream.

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#80. Entomologists trap insects in their killing jars and then pin their corpses to cards, and no one utters a single squeak of protest. For that matter, let a gentleman hunt a tiger for its skin, and everyone applauds his courage. But to shoot a dragon for science? That, for some reason, is cruel.

Marie Brennan

#81. Why does everyone think that I am a cruel and insensitive man? I mean, come on, I have kids ... on my desk in little jars!

Stephen King

#82. Treating everyone she met like family, and burying needless critism of others so deep beneath the soil of everyday living that only kindness ever saw the light.

Jason F. Wright

#83. Menacing, maniacal, like bees
Kept in glass jars
For centuries.
History wants to hurt you.

Cynthia Cruz

#84. I'm impressed." I meant it, and he nodded his head in thanks.
"Yeah, turning jars into soda.Let the world tremble before my power.

Rachel Hawkins