Top 100 Quotes About Buckets
#1. My advice to you, if you want to lose a bit of weight: don't eat anything that comes in a bucket. Buckets are the kitchen utensils of the farmyard.
Billy Connolly
#2. I like old fashioned things. We have these old wine buckets at the restaurant and none of them match.
Geoffrey Zakarian
#3. His eyes are two buckets of rainwater: deep, fresh, clear. Hurt.
Tahereh Mafi
#4. You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present.
William H. O'Connell
#5. Real love should draw no blood from the loved and buckets from the lover.
Emily Maguire
#6. You see, God's love is an endless ocean, and human beings strive to get as much water as they can out of it. But at the end of the day, how much water we each get depends on the size of our cups. Some people have barrels, some buckets, while some others have only got bowls.
Elif Shafak
#7. Dames. Sometimes all they got to do is let it out and a few buckets later there's no way you'd ever know.
Frank Miller
#8. The funnel-shaped devices are tremie tubes, which are apparently being used to avoid having the wet concrete free fall into the forms where the 4-cubic-yard buckets could not fit to pour directly.
Ray Bottenberg
#9. My all-time favorite match that I've ever had was against Kyle O'Reilly in 2012, the 'hybrid fighting rules match' where we were bleeding buckets all over the place. And it was really a match that took my career to the next level.
Adam Cole
#10. Bucket filling is in the eye of the bucket holder, not the bucket filler. Fill their buckets with things that are important to them ... not you.
David Cottrell
#11. I think that is the reason we are not more blessed in our ministry; we are carrying around empty buckets, and the people see that we have not anything in them, and they don't come forward.
D.L. Moody
#12. My dad was so influential in my career. It was a fulfillment of every athlete's dream. I dreamed about it as a kid. We played hockey in the backyard. We had silver buckets we carried around like the Stanley Cup. It was everything that you would hope.
Matt Cullen
#13. Soaking them in buckets of seawater, to which she'd add a handful of cornmeal and a rusty nail. She'd agitate the water several times a day, and change the water after twelve hours.
Ruth Ozeki
#14. We used to wash our hair in buckets and survive on toasted sandwiches, chocolates and soup.
Joan Greenwood
#15. we tend to put people into three buckets: people that we are sure we like, people we don't know if we like, and people we don't like.
Patrick King
#16. Skinless creatures swayed in death throes from thick, silver hooks. Beneath them, on the turquoise mosaic floor, rows of buckets overflowed with clotting blood.
Douglas Clegg
#17. Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.
Mark Hopkins
#18. Two seeds destined to grow in concert, planted together in the field of love.'" She took in a lungful of air and continued. "'The sky cast wet buckets of dreams and desires, the roots took shape, and the leaves tangled as one.
Christina Lee
#19. Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life new again.
Diane Ackerman
#20. His gaze is fixed on me: calm, unflappable; 2 buckets of river water at midnight. I'd like to cry into his eyes.
Tahereh Mafi
#21. I felt a stack of shelves, and these were filled with plastic bottles and maybe buckets, and one object that felt like the worst thing in the world but which turned out later to be a sandwich.
Adam Rex
#22. Hu's heart clanged like fifteen buckets in a single well.
Luo Guanzhong
#23. Basketball isn't a game; It's an art form. You master the fundamentals so you can forget 'em, so you can improvise and just concentrate on what really matters: getting buckets.
Kyrie Irving
#24. We've been playing ugly. Without all of our bodies, we've been kicking it all over the shop, but fortunately we've been able to make the big buckets and rely on our defense for once.
Steve Nash
#25. It was adapted to climbing apple trees and running after gazelles, not to clearing rocks and carrying water buckets.
Yuval Noah Harari
#26. I want to have babies with you. Buckets full."
"Buckets full of babies?"
"Buckets full of babies.
Adriane Leigh
#27. I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well, of the things they need to look at again, of the wells of material they have not even begun to dip their buckets into.
Tobias Wolff
#28. Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets.
Eric Maisel
#29. Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.
Percy Ross
#30. He had studied, and worked, and slaved, and eaten untold buckets of shit, to have this opportunity.
James Jones
#31. Kids are like buckets of disease that live in your house.
Louis C.K.
#32. The cold rain came down in buckets. I was shaking, shivering, and naked, and more soap was getting into my eyes. But hey. At least I was clean.
Jim Butcher
#33. Writing, for me, is a very fluid process. I sit down and wait for the words to come. They usually do - in buckets and waves. I look upon it as a blessing because the words come so easily.
Sharon Draper
#34. In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 days a year, they get buckets of food - for the birds, for the squirrels, the chipmunks and the turtles in the summer.
Barbara Mandrell
#35. The issue is not that you are wearing buckets of make up. The real problem is how does the inside look
Sahndra Fon Dufe
#36. The buckets emptied quickly, and men from different squads took turns bringing water from the gully that lay towards the city, where, in the feeble shade of emaciated mulberries, a muddy stream lived out its last days in the diabolical heat.
Mikhail Bulgakov
#37. Sound is a movement which is handed on from atom to atom in a gas through which the sound is passing, just as a chain of workers pass buckets of water to a fire. The quicker the workers move their hands and arms, the quicker the water moves.
William Henry Bragg
#38. Not only was there no traffic but the rain came down in buckets and I had no shelter. I had to run under some pines to take cover; this did no good; I began crying and swearing and socking myself on the head for being such a damn fool.
Jack Kerouac
#39. If your feet are in two buckets and the average temperature of the water is 90 degrees, you're probably fine - unless one bucket is at 35 and the other is at 145 degrees. On average, you're fine. Based on variation, though, you're miserable.
Seth Godin
#40. Defend me, therefore, common sense, say
From reveries so airy, from the toil
Of dropping buckets into empty wells,
And growing old in drawing nothing up.
William Cowper
#41. Now that's something different! I'm not bored of buckets yet!
Ann Leckie
#43. History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets.
Yuval Noah Harari
#44. What is the weight of a tear? The single tear falls when the buckets have stopped, when dry eyes and a slightly raised chin sometimes let it slip, like a prayer. It carries the weight of a lifetime.
Wendy Murray
#45. Buckets,' said Cimorene. 'Lots of buckets, and soap, and lemon juice. Where do you keep your buckets, Mendanbar?'
'Around somewhere,' Mendanbar said vaguely.
Patricia C. Wrede
#46. the only things I needed for spiritual redemption were sand and water, authentic Mexican food, and buckets of margaritas.
Camille Pagan
#47. We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
Booker T. Washington
#48. I think our souls are always being hole-punched, like old train tickets. In the end, we're all perforated. If we were buckets, we wouldn't hold water.
Gregory Sherl
#49. There was so much to do and not enough buckets.
Hugh Howey
#50. The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to work for them.
Michael Moore
#51. My life is filled with buckets of tears; thousands of people shouting in my ears; the humming and chirping of hundreds of Himalayan birds, which are irresistible to hear.
Santosh Kalwar
#52. Two buckets were easier carried than one. / I grew up in between.
Seamus Heaney
#53. Was it me? Was I too cold? Too inexperienced? Not pretty enough? Not good enough in bed? And when disloyal, seed-sowing scum buckets slept with other girls, why did women look inward to find fault in themselves?
Tarryn Fisher
#54. It turns out, teachers think of glitter as the herpes of craft world- impossible to contain or exterminate. (Beer Buckets and Baby Jesus)
Myra McEntire
#55. At the beach, college girls lay in groups on the sand around buckets of drinks, their bums curved up like fruits. Mine didn't do that.
Tamara Faith Berger
#56. Good gracious!" she exclaimed, "she's been more than an hour in there! When the priests set about cleansing her of her sins, the choir-boys have to form in line to pass the buckets of filth and empty them in the street!
Emile Zola
#57. Suddenly, as they walked with their buckets, it was not the child in each face that she sought, but the Wonder that had raised itself on to its two feet, that had learnt to walk, to run, that had spoken, that had got in touch with life under her hand.
Enid Bagnold
#58. As always, she was carrying the washing. Rudy was carrying two buckets of cold water, or as he put it, two buckets of future ice.
Markus Zusak
#59. The instant of petrified violence that sometimes foreruns a summer storm saturated the hushed yard, and in the unearthly tinseled light rusty buckets of trailing fern which were strung round the porch like party lanterns appeared illuminated by a faint green inward flame.
Truman Capote
#60. You are the chief bucket filler, and the best way to fill buckets is with excellent communication.
David Cottrell
#61. When we put setbacks into two buckets - the "business as usual" bucket and the "holy cow" bucket - and use a different mindset for each, we are signing up for trouble.
Ed Catmull
#62. I think the more aggressive I am on defense helps me to get easier buckets and get in a good grove.
Baron Davis
#63. That's all our team is about. If we stop people, we're the most athletic team in this whole tournament and we can get out and get easy buckets.
LeBron James
#64. Charity couldn't bring herself to cry on Lady Beddington's shoulder
not until after she'd mopped up a plate or two of spaghetti with buckets of cheap red wine.
Elizabeth Jane Howard
#65. Fat raindrops are starting to fall and no doubt it's only a matter of time before the sky is throwing buckets of water in my face.
Penelope Fletcher
#66. The well of Providence is deep. It's the buckets we bring to it that are small.
Mary Webb
#67. What a pure blessing it was to have a bath in a tub alone in a room where all you had to do was pump the water, not tote buckets. Then all you had to do was pull out the cork, not tote more buckets to the back porch
that kind of thing is easy to take lightly until you don't have it.
Nancy E. Turner
#68. I had the loveliest pony when I was your age. I called him Zip. He ate apples straight out of my hand. I'm deathly allergic to horse hair, of course, and wept buckets of tears every time he was near, but it was worth it. I loved him so.
Meg Cabot
#69. Maude Rainey was built like a barrel, with a bosom as big as buckets and a voice that some claimed would make hair fall out.
Larry McMurtry
#70. She claims they give her moral virtue too, but then she has buckets more of that than she needs.
Gregory Maguire
#71. We guarantee rude emptiness for ourselves; later in life, when we treat children as - "empty buckets", today.
Aniruddha Sastikar
#72. Slowly slowly O mind ...
Everything in own pace happens,
Gardner may water a hundred buckets ...
Fruit arrives only in its season.
Kabir
#73. Somewhere there is a book that says you ought to cry buckets of tears over yourself and love yourself with a passion and wrap your arms around yourself; only then will you be happy and free. That's a good book.
Joanna Russ
#74. The armies massing ... crowding thick-and-fast
as the swarms of flies seething over the shepherds' stalls
in the first spring days when the buckets flood with milk-
so many long-haired Achaeans swarmed across the plain
to confront the Trojans, fired to smash their lines
Fagles Robert
#76. I like Yorkshire terriers. They're good to wash your car with. They fit right in the bucket.
Billiam Coronel
#77. There is a fountain inside you. Don't walk around with an empty bucket.
Rumi
#80. First of all, if it's on your mind, your mind isn't clear. Anything you consider unfinished in any way must be captured in a trusted system outside your mind, or what I call a collection bucket, that you know you'll come back to regularly and sort through.
David Allen
#81. It's the good old paradox of democracy. We are individually pretty small drops in the bucket, but collectively we are all powerful.
Damian Kulash
#83. He fills heaven and earth as the ocean fills the bucket that is submerged in it, and as the ocean surrounds the bucket so does God in the universe He fills. "The heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee." God is not contained: He contains.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#84. What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech.
Vance Havner
#85. Money is like water in a leaky bucket: no sooner there, it begins to drip.
John Updike
#86. I won't make a bucket list because I'm so afraid that I'll die and then people will find my bucket list and be, like, 'Oh, she didn't get to do that.'
Emma Stone
#88. You can throw a bucket of cold water on Russians, and we can take it. But one shouldn't humiliate us!
Vladimir Yakunin
#89. Would you like me to go and stick my head in a bucket of water?
Douglas Adams
#91. Every day the bucket a-go a well, one day the bottom a-go drop out.
Bob Marley
#92. Long, long ago, before eruptions were invented, the molten lava had to be carried down the mountainside, bucket by bucket, and poured over the sleeping villagers. This took time.
Dave Barry
#94. When it's raining gold, reach for a bucket, not a thimble.
Warren Buffett
#95. It's gonna be awesome! A suspected pedophile dunks my kids head in a bucket so when she dies she can live in an invisible castle. Set the alarm!
Dana Gould
#97. Slang is a foul pool at which every dunce fills his bucket, and then sets up as a fountain.
Ambrose Bierce
#98. Most time is wasted, not in hours, but in minutes. A bucket with a small hole in the bottom gets just as empty as a bucket that is deliberately kicked over ...
Paul J. Meyer
#99. If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful.
Ramana Maharshi
#100. Every offensive lost its force as it proceeded. It was like throwing a bucket of water over the floor. It first rushed forward, then soaked forward, and finally stopped altogether until another bucket could be brought.
Winston Churchill
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