Top 59 Quotes About Gutters
#1. I want a guy who can clean my gutters and kill my spiders - who's simple yet layered.
Kelli Garner
#2. Did you ever notice all the items on a honey do list are dangerous. Clean gutters, put light in shower, patch roof. It's a honey die list.
Bill Engvall
#3. And when all the world came back And the light crept up between the shutters, And you heard the sparrows in the gutters, You had such a vision of the street As the street hardly understands;
T. S. Eliot
#4. I felt that the decrepit state of these once magnificent buildings, with their broken gutters, walls blackened by rainwater, crumbling plaster revealing the coarse masonry beneath it, windows boarded up or clad with corrugated iron, precisely reflected my own state of mind ...
W.G. Sebald
#5. Rumor ran in the slum streets of Trelayne like sewage in the gutters, mingled and colorful in its contents, but mostly shit.
Richard K. Morgan
#6. Apparently the town, a triumph of post-war socialist planning was a sewer, full of tattooed beasts and violent zombies, with vomit and blood frothing in the gutters. I couldn't wait to see it.
Hanif Kureishi
#7. Twelve-point Caslon," Jamie said, giving the text a professional glance. "I will say the leading's terrible," he added critically. "And the gutters are half what they should be.
Diana Gabaldon
#8. We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.
Buzz Aldrin
#9. Birds nested among the gutters and eaves of Unseen University, although it was noticeable that however great the pressure on the nesting sites they never, ever, made nests in the invitingly open mouths of the gargoyles that lined the rooftops, much to the gargoyles' disappointment.
Terry Pratchett
#10. The rain was still crashing down, angrily machine-gunning the large windows; it poured through the gutters up in the tower and funneled along the flat roof, sounding like footsteps on the ceiling.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#11. People who are excited by posthumous fame forget that the people who remember them will soon die too. And those after them in turn. Until their memory, passed from one to another like a candle flame, gutters and goes out.
Marcus Aurelius
#12. Hello from the gutters of NYC, which is filled with dog manure, vomit, stale wine, urine,and blood. Hello from the sewers of NYC which swallow up these delicacies when they are washed away by the sweeper trucks.
David Berkowitz
#13. Although it wasn't raining anymore, the air was still heavy with water, and rain gutters were ringing all over Point Breeze.
Michael Chabon
#14. along a cobbled street, the stones sheened with a soft, early spring rain. On either side the gutters ran with an infant chuckle and gurgle, baby streams being amused with themselves. The
Sheri S. Tepper
#15. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#16. I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
Waka Flocka Flame
#17. Yes I speak a different language - the dark fire of poetry - it flutters and gutters in tune with the mood
...
John Geddes
#18. It was like the imminent arrival of Gargantuan preparations had to be made to widen the gutters of Denver and foreshorten certain laws to fit his suffering bulk and bursting ecstasies.
Jack Kerouac
#19. The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground
Haruki Murakami
#20. There are no ghettos in Heaven,
no suburbs in Hell,
no gutters in Heaven,
but you'll find repentant gangsters.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#21. I wear a necklace of hope with pearly beads. When I met you, it broke, and the beads spilled all over the floor, into the gutters.
Karen Quan
#22. Well, there are all kinds of gutters. Life will supply you with gutters.
Jeff Bridges
#23. Cum gutters are pretty high up there too," I smiled sleepily. "Cum gutters?" he asked with a short laugh,
Lola Stark
#24. We fill too many gutters while we argue unimportant points and confuse issues.
John Howard Griffin
#25. There's more to me, more to the universe, than I suspected. Room for all the dreams I ever had, and all the nightmares ... heroes in the gutters and in the mirror; saints in the frozen wasteland; fools and liars on the throne of wisdom, and hands reaching out in hunger that will never be filled.
Joan D. Vinge
#26. Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.
Horace Greeley
#27. Hello from the gutters of New York City, which are filled with dog manure, vomit, stale wine, urine, and blood.
David Berkowitz
#28. It is the sexual frenzy of a closed society, and the women of Golpitha are the gutters for these men's emissions.
Suketu Mehta
#29. You are beyond mad," said Locke after several moments of silent, furious thought. "Full-on barking madness is a state of rational bliss to which you may not aspire. Men living in gutters and drinking their own piss would shun your company. You are a prancing lunatic.
Scott Lynch
#30. Everywhere she looked, she saw bright colors: on the drab, gray concrete apartments, on the tin-roofed, open-fronted stores, in the muddy water flowing in the gutters. It was as though a rainbow had melted into her eyes. Rasheed
Khaled Hosseini
#31. Sand choked the stainless steel gutters of concentric streets below dark skies full of stars like beds of cold jewels. And through it all, a dying wind of change blew, bringing with it the cinnamon smell of late October.
Stephen King
#32. Do you know what sorrow the rain can inspire?
.
Do you know how gutters weep when it pours down?
.
Do you know how lost a solitary person feels in the rain?
Badr Shakir Sayyab
#33. I am a hair-lock; I am floating in the gutters to meet the rubber-band.
Amaan Ahmad
#34. Nodded to the birds, a dozen of them in a black line, wise-eyed and watching. The town-square ran red. Blood in the gutters, blood on the flagstones, blood in the fountain. The corpses posed as corpses do. Some comical, reaching
Mark Lawrence
#35. I'm not such a saint as all that," Rohyr demurred. "But I don't care to descend into the gutters with him. It's already crowded enough down there.
Eresse
#36. All I know is it feels good to cry that hard. It's like cleaning the leaves out from the gutters. If the leaves sit there too long, they weigh on the metal and hurt the house.
Natalie Taylor
#37. Those who are coming from the gutters know that from time to time a piece of us will break off and float back to the floor from whence it came. Wealth can gray your eyes at the edges, money does not make you hover above human qualities, you are only a flawed being with much material gain.
Crystal Evans
#38. I was writing fiction in my 20s but in a pretty undisciplined way - late at night, maybe, after I'd peeled myself from the walls of a nightclub and crawled home along the gutters. But I slowly became more serious and more devout in my work, and I fell seriously in love with the short story form.
Kevin Barry
#39. Silence is the fruit of the occupation; it hangs in branches, seeps from gutters.
Anthony Doerr
#40. The darkest day of my life was the day I heard of Lincoln's assassination. I did not know what it meant. Here was the rebellion put down in the field, and starting up in the gutters...
Ulysses S. Grant
#41. The palimpsests of molecules need not be overwritten, for machines make once-ephemeral words persist: they collect in gutters; they pile up and require sweeping; they hang in air like morning fog.
Dexter Palmer
#42. If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#43. No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets.
Henry Ward Beecher
#44. He's earned a lifetime of peace and happiness, but some people never get what they deserve. That's why there are saints in gutters and sadists in palaces.
Ann Aguirre
#45. Of course I'm going to say "I'm a thug" that's because I came from the GUTTER and I'm still HERE!
Tupac Shakur
#46. In opposition to sex education: Let the kids today learn it where we did - in the gutter.
Pat Paulsen
#47. If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter
Anton Chekhov
#48. I'd go and get really drunk somewhere ... in the street. Pass out somewhere and sleep in the gutter.
Robert Pattinson
#49. About five years ago I saw a mockingbird make a straight vertical descent from the roof gutter of a four-story building. It was an act as careless and spontaneous as the curl of a stem or the kindling of a star.
Annie Dillard
#51. The alleycats manipulate the blocks with gutter magic
Aesop Rock
#52. The distance between the limousine and the gutter is a short one.
Kinky Friedman
#53. Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.
Gerald Priestland
#54. God often goes to the gutter to find the recipient for His grace. He lifts him out, washes him and transforms him - making him into a child of God fit for His kingdom. That is God's grace.
Chuck Smith
#55. The spirit is often most free when the body is satiated with pleasure; indeed, sometimes the stars shine more brightly seen from the gutter than from the hilltop.
W. Somerset Maugham
#57. We dragged English guitar music out of the gutter.
Noel Gallagher
#58. I'm a moron because I don't want to lie in a gutter puking over myself ... yeah right
Davey Havok
#59. I have a huge need for financial security; the emigrant in me has a fear of ending up homeless and in the gutter.
Ruth Behar
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