Quotes About Cardboard Boxes

#1. I do not want to heap coals of fire on anyone's head, but I would like to advise those who keep the living thought of the dead hidden away in cardboard boxes, to pass on as quickly as possibly such explosive material, whose only legitimate heir is the whole world, that is to say, my neighbor.

Pierre Schaeffer

#2. Old tires and large clay conduit pipes make excellent, safe obstacles and tunnels for the pups to explore. They will play for hours with big cardboard boxes; clean, used, large gallon plastic bottles; old tennis balls; and squeak toys.

Monks Of New Skete

#3. I carry a knife with me so I can cut images out of cardboard boxes. I'm always cutting cardboard. Especially every Thursday, which is recycling day.

Micah Lexier

#4. We regarded each other sitting around the breakfast table with its big cardboard boxes of "Fear," "Chix," and "Rats.

Donald Barthelme

#5. As movers and the moved both know, books are heavy freight, the weight of refrigerators and sofas broken up into cardboard boxes. They make us think twice about changing addresses.

John Updike

#6. It wasn't until we dropped him at his university dormitory and left him there looking touchingly lost and bewildered amid an assortment of cardboard boxes and suitcases in a spartan room not unlike a prison cell that it really hit home that he was vanishing out of our lives and into his own.

Bill Bryson

#7. My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts, plays and books.

William Nicholson

#8. Rose worked and played so hard that kids all across the country - not just in Cincinnati - were emulating him on sandlots everywhere, proud to dirty their jerseys doing a headfirst "Pete Rose" dive into cardboard boxes used for bases ... whether they needed to slide or not.

Tucker Elliot

#9. The very concept of home has become tarnished, misty, elusive. As never before, we are living in a rootless age. So many of us are refugees, living out of suitcases, car trunks, cardboard boxes, desperate to go back to a home that no longer exists.

Chris Atack

#10. Wallace and Gromit's contraptions are created purely for gags, but we all have the urge to invent - especially children. If they're bored, kids will make something from cardboard boxes, yoghurt pots, tape and elastic bands. Often, those constructions are the best.

Nick Park

#11. It's incredibly exciting to know people are using and living with the things I create.

Greg Lynn

#12. I have loved, cried, been mad with happiness. I have won and I have lost.

Anita Ekberg

#13. I do what I've trained my whole life to do. I watch the ball. I keep my eye on the ball. I never stop watching.
I watch it as it sails past me and lands in the catcher's mitt, a perfect and glorious strike three.

Barry Lyga

#14. When you find things that are tried and true for millennia, you can bet that it's going to happen tomorrow.

Will Smith

#15. That is perhaps what we seek throughout life, that and nothing more, the greatest possible sorrow so as to become fully ourselves before dying.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#16. I could find David Beckham naked in a cardboard box on my doorstep and I would drop him off at the pound.

Olivia Wilde

#17. People are terrified. A lot of them are in relationships that aren't satisfying, and if you tell them they can change their life, they get really scared.

Erica Jong

#18. On a cloudy day, be the sun in someone's sky.

Debasish Mridha

#19. Most of the matchbooks and little boxes were made of paper, and even if the matches dried out, the containers were split, torn, and shriveled. The damp cardboard dripped with water, discolored and broken.

Penelope Douglas

#20. I would say I have a bit of a nerd vibe.

Kelly McCreary

#21. Any good business person applies financial discipline to everything they do. The movie business is and should be no different; I don't believe you have to sacrifice creativity to have business success. To the contrary, great art requires discipline.

Paula Wagner

#22. In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#23. Boxes
We built walls of cardboard
thinking they would keep us safe.
And they did.
Until the flames
came.

Carolee Dean

#24. I have little bones.

Dolly Parton

#25. The bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women's emancipation.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#26. Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.

Erma Bombeck

#27. Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid?

Theodore Dalrymple