Quotes About Manure

#1. 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

#2. Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame the roots for not being blossoms.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#3. If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

#4. Nanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain

Zora Neale Hurston

#5. You desire the end but close your eyes to the means. You want the garden to be beautiful, provided that the smell of manure is kept well away from your fastidious nose.

P.D. James

#6. The difference between an ignorant fool shoveling manure in a bullpen, and a fool with a PhD, is that the fool with the PhD can shovel more of it, faster.

Dimitris Mita

#7. Happiness is the cure - a cheerful mind the preventive: cultivate both. No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.

Charlotte Bronte

#8. We should nourish our souls on the dew of Poesy, and manure them as well.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#9. It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat of the sun, the passage of swallows, the nearness of rats, the sameness of sheep, the love of spiders, the smell of manure, and the glory of everything.

E.B. White

#10. China's use of 'night soil,' as the Chinese rightly call a manure that is collected after dark, is probably the reason that its soils are still healthy after four millennia of intensive agriculture, while other great civilizations - the Maya, for one - floundered when their soils turned to dust.

Rose George

#11. Augustin stood there looking down at him and cursed him speaking slowly clearly bitterly and contemptuously and cursing as steadily as though he were dumping manure on a field lifting it with a dung fork out of a wagon.

Ernest Hemingway,

#12. Well, I can do certain jobs because smells don't bother me. But that means I'm usually the one at the ranch cleaning up all the manure.

Bill Pullman

#13. Hello from the gutters of New York City, which are filled with dog manure, vomit, stale wine, urine, and blood.

David Berkowitz

#14. You know when you're milking a cow and you have all that foamy white milk in the bucket and you're just about through, when all of a sudden the cow switches her tail through a pile of manure and slaps it into that foamy white milk. That's Bill Fulbright.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#15. She was like a farmer who keeps horses in order to haul away the manure that they generate.

Paula Marantz Cohen

#16. What do I really think? What do I believe in, without the horse manure?

George Segal

#17. Well, I myself find that respect is like manure. Use it where needed, and growth will flourish. Spread it on too thick, and things just start to smell.

Brandon Sanderson

#18. In other words, if your boy is a poet, horse manure can only mean flowers to him; which is, of course, what horse manure has always been about.

Ray Bradbury

#19. Relationships are blessings, but they need the manure of love, respect and devotion. A little more would raise expectations and a little less would bring remorse.

Shilpa Sandesh

#20. Jacob: I've never seen so much manure. Wade: Baggage stock horses. They pack'em in 27 a car. Jacob: how do you stand the smell? Wade: what smell?

Sara Gruen

#21. It is easy to love people when they smell good, but sometimes they slip into the manure of life and smell awful. You must love them just as much when they smell foul.

Wayne W. Dyer

#22. A man [Joyce] whose earliest stories appeared next to the manure prices in the Irish Homestead knew that columns of prose, like columns of shit, could both recultivate the earth.

Declan Kiberd

#23. Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There's shopping malls coming out of the walls, as we walk out among the manure. That's why I pay no mind.

Beck

#24. You have a manure pile of memories. Nothing you can do about that. Now, you can drown in the stink, or turn it into compost and grow a garden.

Rebecca O'Donnell

#25. Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years.

Noel Gallagher

#26. Money was the manure of politics ...

Barbara Mertz

#27. If I discover a manure which will enable me to make a piece of land produce 20 per cent more corn, I may withdraw at least a portion of my capital from the most unproductive part of my farm.

David Ricardo

#28. Soil with a lot of manure in it produces abundant crops; water that is too clear has no fish. Therefore, enlightened people should maintain the capacity to accept impurities and should not be solitary perfectionists.

Zicheng Hong

#29. You can find friends in manure, sometimes, my son.

James Clavell

#30. Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.

Alec Baldwin

#31. By raising tall trees for windbreaks, citrus underneath, and a green manure cover down on the surface, I have found a way to take it easy and let the orchard manage itself!

Masanobu Fukuoka

#32. The longer I live the greater is my respect for manure in all its forms.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#33. In California, the state's huge dairy herd produces twenty-seven million tons of manure a year, the particulates and vapors from which have helped to make air quality in the argiculturally intensive San Joaquin Valley worse than it is Los Angeles.

Paul Roberts

#34. If you're a gardener you don't need a gym. You're always carrying large sacks of manure all over.

Michael Caine

#35. Can you plant a sapling and expect it to grow into a tree overnight? You have to water it, nurture it, give it sunlight, rain, and manure, and then slowly, it will grow.

Anand Neelakantan

#36. The bushes of love are blossomed through the manure of hardship.

Kedar Joshi

#37. Is it possible that I've suffered so that I, together with my evil deeds and sufferings, should be manure for someone's future harmony? I want to see with my own eyes the hind lie down with the lion, and the murdered man rise up and embrace his murderer.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#38. I already have a plan." Celie said, raising her hand as she would with her tutor.
"Do you?" Rolf's eyes gleamed. "What is it?"
"I don't think you'll like it, Lilah." Celie apologized straightaway. "It involves manure ... a great deal of manure."
Rolf started to laugh again.

Jessica Day George

#39. They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

Ernest Hemingway,

#40. There is a limited supply of excellent songs, but I am not the only one. Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years. Rock musicians over 30 only produce unimportant material.

Noel Gallagher

#41. They think they can make fuel from horse manure - now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.

Billie Holiday

#42. A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.

Emile Zola

#43. I felt like a champion because I was figuring shit out. I was a doer and a getter-doner, and it was okay to be identified by the neighbors as the little lady who had a dump truck of manure delivered, a load that made the entire neighborhood smell like a dairy barn for weeks.

Dee Williams

#44. I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

Theodore Bikel

#45. And sweets to the sweet, I replied, then spoke the word that completed the spell, dropping a load of manure upon him.

Roger Zelazny

#46. Many cows are fed a high-protein diet, which creates a more liquid manure that is easier to spray on fields.

Charles Duhigg

#47. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Cyril Connolly

#48. You're so full of shit, you ought to be a cow manure

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#49. When will they make a tractor that can furnish the manure for farm fields and produce a baby tractor every spring?

George Erik Rupp

#50. Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.

Francis Bacon

#51. The church is like manure. Pile it up, and it stinks up the neighborhood. Spread it out, and it enriches the world.

Luis Palau

#52. Life wasn't always roses and cupcakes; sometimes it was arsenic and manure.

Melissa Pearl

#53. With an unseen inner-smile, the beetle carried on its journey, rolling manure. It had decided that stones were not to its liking. It was happy in its life and its life, quite literally, was a lump of shit.

Stephen Craig

#54. I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger.

Eartha Kitt

#55. Don't use 'tea' and 'manure' in the same sentence or I'll have to pound you into the ground." "You're such a baby," Lexi said. "It's science. You're supposed to love science." "I draw the line at foul-smelling llama-manure tea.

Christine Feehan

#56. [When her daughter suggested the President refer in his conversation with foreign dignitaries about lawn care to 'fertilizer' instead of to 'manure':] But remember, it took me almost thirty years to get him to call it manure.

Bess Truman

#57. The new wrinkle is that escalating advances in technology are nourishing the narcissistic ego the way chicken manure nourishes a rose bush, while exploding worldwide population is allowing its effects to multiply geometrically.

Tom Robbins

#58. Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Ezra Pound

#59. City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure.

Melina Marchetta

#60. Man takes great pains to heap up riches, and they are like heaps of manure in the furrows of the field, good for nothing unless they be spread.

Matthew Henry

#61. Look, Daniel, at my age either you begin to see things for what they are or you're pretty much done for. Only three or four things are worth living for; the rest is manure

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#62. You got hair like a girl," Mr. D said. "And you smell like bubble bath. At least I can get a trim." "I'm wearing Old Spice." "Next time try something stronger. Like horse manure." Mr.

J.R. Ward

#63. The corncob was the central object of my life. My father was a horse handler, first trotting and pacing horses, then coach horses, then work horses, finally saddle horses. I grew up around, on, and under horses, fed them, shoveled their manure, emptied the mangers of corncobs.

Paul Engle

#64. We're told to plug our noses
to escape the smells.
Manure.
Rot.
Poverty?
Reality.

Holly Bodger

#65. Wilbur burst into tears. "I dont want to die," he moaned. "I want to stay alive, right here in my comfortable manure pile with all my friends. I want to breathe the beautiful air and lie in the beautiful sun."

E.B. White

#66. The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.

Octave Mirbeau

#67. The more fodder, the more flesh; the more flesh, the more manure; the more manure, the more grain.

Justus Von Liebig

#68. I read in one of the gardening books that manure was very good for soil, so I had a shitload delivered.

Kaaron Warren

#69. The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.

Alan Kay

#70. Ah, stardom! They put your name on a star in the sidewalk on Hollywood Boulevard and you walk down and find a pile of dog manure on it. That tells the whole story, baby.

Lee Marvin

#71. Lily Houghton-Miller stood in the middle of my living room and surveyed me with the detached interest of a scientist gazing at a new variety of manure-based invertebrate.

Jojo Moyes

#72. I've always considered myself a physical person. I don't call myself a farm girl, but I did spend a lot of years shoveling manure and throwing hay, because I worked to pay most of my riding expenses.

Eleanor Mondale

#73. Bard eyed him like he was manure on her shoes at the same time she did things, like sharpen a wooden stake, something she knew didn't work on him, but that was not her point, even if she was making one.

Kristen Ashley

#74. Money is like manure, you don't have to spread it around, you can just sell it to Potash Corp as fertilizer.

J. Paul Getty

#75. You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.

Hank Williams

#76. Rumors and Manure both get spread around but only one is beneficial

Ed Furgol

#77. All rejection and negation indicates a deficiency in fertility: fundamentally, if only we were good plowland we would allow nothing to go unused, and in every thing, event, and person we would welcome manure, rain, or sunshine.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#78. I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.

John Chamberlain

#79. Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

Francis Bacon

#80. What are we doing down here? We prepare the blossoms of tomorrow. We all manure future humanity.

Leo Errera

#81. The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and lambs, and without the manure, which all return corn and fruit.

Robert Grosseteste

#82. My father left Ireland because he did not want to muck horse manure for the rest of his life, and he wanted to come to New York.

Denis Leary

#83. They got a manure machine in there," Keller said. He went up to the barn and peeked through a hole between tow boards. "On wheels. It's fun to ride sometimes, when you don't care how you smell.

Sandra Neil Wallace

#84. Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land, - it largely increases the product.

P.T. Barnum

#85. -compost is trucked in; some crops also receive fish emulsion along with their water and a side dressing of pelleted chicken manure. Over the winter a cover crop of legumes is planted to build up nitrogen in the soil.

Michael Pollan

#86. Oh! Old rubbish! Old letters, old clothes, old objects that one does not want to throw away. How well nature has understood that, every year, she must change her leaves, her flowers, her fruit and her vegetables, and make manure out of the mementos of her year!

Jules Renard

#87. Beauty and power was commonplace to the dragons as mud and manure to a stable boy.

Susan Scott

#88. The Avant Gardener feeds flowers to his manure and charges prices he believes are not to be sniffed at

Dean Cavanagh

#89. To embrace a woman is to embrace a sack of manure ...

Odo Of Cluny

#90. I have no great desire to play a great role. You can't make quality on TV anyway. It's always a manure pile. You're on the top, or you're on the bottom, but it's still a manure pile, and I'm not sure the movie industry isn't like that, too.

Wayne Rogers

#91. He's attracted to the smell of manure," Felicity says. "You might wallow in the stables to bring out the full flower of his love.

Libba Bray

#92. When the spring comes, we will manure the plains of Kosova with the bones of Serbs, for we Albanians have suffered too much to forget.

Isa Boletini

#93. I imbue this place with my essence, every stone and every drop. My visit will do wonders for the flowers."
Aly propped her chin on her hand. "So does manure," she observed.

Tamora Pierce

#94. The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrant. It is its natural manure.

Thomas Jefferson

#95. I went horseback riding and got a big chunk of horse manure kicked into my face. It has a way of slapping you right back into reality.

Vanessa Carlton

#96. There is a type of girl who, while incapable of cleaning her bedroom even at knife point, will fight for the privilege of being allowed to spend the day shoveling manure in a stable.

Terry Pratchett

#97. We do it because we care. We care that Vincent Van Gogh mutilated his ear. We care that behind a pile of manure in the yard he destroyed his life. We care that Scott Joplin's music lives! We care because we know this: the life we save is our own.

Alice Walker

#98. The cocoa-nut palm grows best near salt water, no matter how loose and sandy the soil is, and in these congenial circumstances needs neither manure nor care of any kind. It bends lovingly toward the sea and drops its ripe fruit into it.

Isabella Bird

#99. Tell me what you do with the food you eat, and I'll tell you who you are. Some turn their food into fat and manure, some into work and good humour, and others, I'm told, into God. So there must be three sorts of men.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#100. He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

Moliere