Pail Quotes

#1. Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. - W. B. Yeats

Daniel Coyle

#2. I like to go to art museums and name the untitled paintings ... Boy With Pail ... Kitten On Fire.

Steven Wright

#3. night. A pretty figure you'd cut if you had your way! And after I've gone and bought you this nice new pail and filled it especial to start on!" Elnora came

Gene Stratton-Porter

#4. Love is not like the echo, which returneth only what is given; but, rather, like the pump, which returneth by the pail what it received by the pint.

Ivan Panin

#5. As the sky faded to night, her anger dissipated - but not in a healing way, just dulled, like forged iron sizzling in a cold pail of water.

Katherine McIntyre

#6. Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps full the dinner pail is valuable.

George Washington Carver

#7. The God of Thunder has fallen into the milk pail!

Lois Lowry

#8. What would you do if you were President, and, on the first day of May, the Russian Ambassador presented you with a beautiful cake which emitted a curious ticking noise? Would you plunge it into a pail of water - thus insulting Soviet cuisine in general?

W.C. Fields

#9. Jack and Jill went up that hill, for a supposed pail of water," Mother Goose said. "Jack fell down, broke his crown, 'cause Jill pushed him-but no one caught her.

Chris Colfer

#10. There is hope.
There is hope everywhere.
Today God give milk
and I have the pail.

Anne Sexton

#11. One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

Robert Moog

#12. I hope you don't have friends who recommend Ayn Rand to you. The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.

Flannery O'Connor

#13. The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.

Herbert Hoover

#14. You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail.

Hank Aaron

#15. It is the woman who sheaths her claws and waits for the perfect opportunity who ends up with the cream from the top of the pail.

Vivienne Lorret

#16. Today God gives milk / and I have the pail.

Anne Sexton

#17. Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up for work despite rain or snow or dark of night and slugs it out day after day.

Steven Pressfield

#18. Strangers have crossed the sound, but not the sound of the dark oarsmen Or the golden-haired sons of kings, Strangers whose thought is not formed to the cadence of waves, Rhythm of the sickle, oar and milking pail

Kathleen Raine

#19. The upperclassman hands over a third pail. "Throw it," commands Bastian. The night steams, the stars burn, the prisoner sways, the boys watch, the commandant tilts his head. Frederick pours the water onto the ground. "I will not.

Anthony Doerr

#20. I eyed her like a thirsty traveler in the desert looks at a pail of water.

Faraaz Kazi

#21. I liked baseball and sports and Garbage Pail Kids and comic books. I know what it's like to really adore something.

Todd Lowe

#22. I consulted a therapist at Mass. General. After about 20 minutes, he stopped me and said, 'You're just a big existential garbage pail. Go home and relax.'

Spalding Gray

#23. At last the bottom fell out.
No more water in the pail.
No more moon in the water.

John Gould

#24. Summer nights, washing my neck and back in the yard. The rope of cold water you pumped into the metal pail, scattering into brilliant jewels as you splashed it over my sweat-gummed skin. Remember how you laughed, watching me shudder and oooh.

Han Kang

#25. In another moment he was flying down the street with his pail and a tingling rear, Tom was whitewashing with vigor, and Aunt Polly was retiring from the field with a slipper in her hand and triumph in her eye.

Mark Twain

#26. Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.

William Butler Yeats

#27. I guess in all of the obvious ways. I can afford more diapers for my children. If I want to buy a complete set of Garbage Pail Kids on Ebay I don't have to ask my wife so hard. For the most part, it's mostly the same. I keep my head down and I just work on comics for most of the time.

Robert Kirkman

#28. I would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail.

Margaret Halsey

#29. To lift up the hands in prayer gives God glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a woman with a slop pail, give Him glory, too. God is so great that all things give Him glory if you mean that they should.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#30. She had listened to the phone conversation and following discussion with great interest. Helen very much enjoyed climbing down into other people's lives and muddling around there with a pail and a shovel and possibly one of those old-fashioned striped bathing suits with the legs and arms.

Maggie Stiefvater

#31. I know you engineer types are excellent with mathematics, much better than I ever will be, but I do know the difference between a tiny pail of coins and big bucket of dollars. How can I take the pail when I am worth the bucket?

Ken Goldstein

#32. Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity.

William Petersen

#33. I washed walls, polished door knobs and the tiny window. The scales and stench of defeat floated into the pail's dirty water. The

Maya Angelou

#34. The very substance which last week was grazing in the field, waving in the milk pail, or growing in the garden, is now become part of the man.

Isaac Watts

#35. But in the end, he's just another dead rat in a garbage pail behind a Chinese restaurant.

Wes Anderson

#36. We ran hunched along a subterranean corridor, discarded animal bones underfoot, the ceiling brushing our heads, past things I tried not to see - a slumped figure in a corner, sleepers shivering on miserable mats of straw, a boy in rags lying on the ground with a beggar's pail bangled around one arm.

Ransom Riggs

#37. Education is not about filling a pail, it's about lighting a fire.

William Butler Yeats

#38. But when I told her they didn't cost one penny and were very nutritious (I made that part up, but I'm sure it must be true), she ate them up. She packed them into her lunch pail this morning, and when I looked

Ruth Reichl