Quotes About Bulldozers

#1. Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers
obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

Edward Abbey

#2. I grew up in central Florida in the nineteen-sixties, barefoot half the time and running around the orange groves where my father worked. I remember flocks of white birds that would lift from the backs of cattle, disturbed by the jackhammers and bulldozers clearing land for Walt Disney World.

Anne Hull

#3. Privacy. Someday, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

Jodie Foster

#4. Once you leave Sundance suddenly you run into bulldozers and concrete and cranes, and all that heritage that the Mormon culture used to be so proud of is turned into out of control develpoment.

Robert Redford

#5. It's time to press the Reset button! Reset the vibration. Change your words to change the vibration.

Michael Losier

#6. Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.

Peter F. Drucker

#7. He could never go back to that place, it had been sealed off to him for ever, blown to the sky with explosives then flattened to the ground with bulldozers, built over with tarmac, lived on top of by other people.

Selma Dabbagh

#8. They wrongly believe that good intentions move mountains. Bulldozers move mountains. But there are exceptions.

Peter Drucker

#9. They say that faith can move mountains, so can bulldozers, so can nuclear weapons. I'm not really sure if that's what faith is intended for. I guess if there is a mountain that has to be moved, and you've got nothing else to do it with, you could probably do it with faith.

Frederick Lenz

#10. There are artists with palettes and easels selling the kind of modern art that Soviet art critics used to critique with bulldozers. Judging by the paintings I saw, the Soviets were right the first time.

P. J. O'Rourke

#11. You see I'm against hunting, in fact I'm a hunt saboteur. I go out the night before and shoot the fox.

Tim Vine

#12. Empathy plays a crucial role in the reduction of stress from the moment of birth.

Arthur P. Ciaramicoli

#13. Arthur didn't notice that the men were running from the bulldozers; he didn't notice that Mr Prosser was staring hectically into the sky. What Mr Prosser had noticed was that huge yellow somethings were screaming through the cluds, impossibly huge somethings.

Douglas Adams

#14. The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.

Edward Abbey

#15. Given the consumer-pleasing politics of today's universities, I have, in effect, seventy new bosses each semester; they're sitting at the desk in front of me.

Maureen Corrigan

#16. You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#17. If the radical right had its way we'd all be church-going polyester heterosexuals driving around in white Cadillacs eating meatloaf and wax beans while mammoth bulldozers leveled all our forests and even hummingbirds were extinct.
Charley, The Voice of the Butterfly

John Nichols

#18. The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field." They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by bulldozers.

George Will

#19. Take risks in your life in the pursuit of your dreams, and support the ones you love when they take risks.

Adrian Ballinger

#20. She was already moving down the hall in the opposite direction from Deke, and so once again any protest I might have made was largely irrelevant. I sighed and followed, wondering if Deborah had learned this kind of behavior, perhaps from a book called The Management Style of Bulldozers. I

Jeff Lindsay

#21. Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity

Vance Havner

#22. What passes for education, culture or maturity in most minds is merely how individuals want to think of themselves, a contrived egocentric self-concept, not actual and effective principles and values. This is what is known in the cliche as the "veneer" of civilization.

Kenny Smith

#23. We are all born bonded to nature; that's why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls.

Bob Brown

#24. Not that I was ever an asshole but I used to be much more of a bulldozer.

Janeane Garofalo

#25. I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.

Ayelet Waldman

#26. He wondered if this was the bulldozers' graveyard, where the bulldozers went to die.

Neil Gaiman

#27. In technological development, in production of material goods and creature comforts, we've challenged the very gods, but psychologically, emotionally, we're scarcely more than chimpanzees with bulldozers, baboons with big bombs.

Tom Robbins

#28. People can snap. People have a limit. And some people are just plain nuts.

Ilona Andrews

#29. There's the continuing challenges of racism, of sexism, of discrimination against the LGBT community, of the way that we treat people as opposed to how we want to be treated.

Hillary Clinton

#30. Rashid was crushed in his wheelchair when one of Israel's huge US-supplied bulldozers demolished his home with the family inside. Thanks to prevailing moral standards, such acts are also excluded from the canon of terrorism (or worse, war crimes), by virtue of wrong agency.3

Noam Chomsky

#31. It is not the men who are in command of the bulldozers. It is the bulldozer who invented men, and then, since they failed to interest it, obliterated them with its muscular arm.

Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio

#32. He would much rather hear a piano being demolished by illegal bulldozers than a Mozart concerto

Andy Stanton

#33. Elizabeth was not playing for the sake of exhibiting her virtuosity: she played for joy.

Mary Street

#34. In the story, I think as an actor you're just trying to fit into the world.

Charlize Theron