Quotes About Scrap Metal

#1. Science has salvaged scrap metal and even found vitamins and valuable oils in refuse, but old people are extravagantly wasted.

Anzia Yezierska

#2. Suddenly your whole life is like a car crash, no brakes, gaining momentum, piling up behind you. Your mistakes, missed opportunities, all the time you've wasted, a twisted, rusting heap of scrap metal that can't be salvaged. Overwhelming you. Crushing you.

Debbie Howells

#3. Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others - the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison.

Eduardo Galeano

#4. If I'm in this war, too, then I should be upset. You know I'm not the type to think collecting bacon grease and scrap metal will keep anyone from dying. How about you give me the words so you don't have to hold them in? It's the least I can do.

Suzanne Hayes

#5. My first official consulting job, therefore, was for a scrap metal dealer (he resented the term "junk dealer") in East Edmonton named Benny Sugarman.

Preston Manning

#6. It had changed to hate. The hate that she prayed for Jesus to take away. But it was also part of what had kept her going so how could she do without it now? That kind of hate is a species of animated scrap metal. Rusting,
corroding inside, leaching into the vital organs.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#7. That's where I live, a junkyard in a neighborhood of junkyards. We have three tractors from the 1940s and '50s, several old pickup trucks, and a pile of scrap metal.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#8. Pay attention, my young friends: to go against the current; this is good for the heart, but we need courage to swim against the tide ... We Christians were not chosen by the Lord for little things; push onwards toward the highest principles. Stake your lives on noble ideals, my dear young people!

Pope Francis

#9. The bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more. you're all good.

Sarah Dessen

#10. Gay rights are human rights.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#11. To create an extraordinary quality of life, you must create a vision that's not only obtainable, but that is sustainable.

Tony Robbins

#12. I've never had a 12-year-old try to explain to me about groove.

Anderson Cooper

#13. A family unity which is only bound together with a table-cloth is of questionable value.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#14. Our squalid society rushed, Narcissus to a man, to gaze on its trivial image on a scrap of metal.

Charles Baudelaire

#15. Domestically challenged? No problem. "Sacrifice" - that's what joyfully serving entails.

Darlene Schacht

#16. Seeing the sky darken & the fields
turn brown & the lake lead-grey
as some enormous scrap of sheet metal
& wind grabs the world around the equator
I am most thankful then for knowing about
the little gold hairs on your belly

Al Purdy

#17. I'm dead, right? I did drown. Crap, crap, crap! This is gonna kill Charlie.

Stephenie Meyer

#18. Advertising and marketing philosophies that thrive on emphasizing 'natural' differences don't stay in the realm of advertising and marketing
they spill into how we justify sexism and racism at every life stage.

Andi Zeisler

#19. The evening sun catches every bolt and scrap of metal on the train, and for an instant we are suspended in an atmosphere of stars.

Lauren DeStefano

#20. The euphoric lust cloud is gone and once the smoke begins to clear, like in all good fairytales, the princess turns into nothing more than a common farm girl while the prince goes back to being a regular frog.

Tali Alexander

#21. I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying
the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I
now enjoy.

Anthony Robbins

#22. I don't smack him around. I don't yell at him. And if he wants to go to the park in his pajamas, I don't care.

Peter Krause

#23. Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries.

Albert Bushnell Hart

#24. Let's give discredit where discredit is due.

Karl Lehenbauer

#25. Last summer I picked up a yellow scrap of newspaper and read of a Biloxi election in 1948, and in it I caught the smell of history more pungently than from the metal marker telling of the French and Spanish two hundred years ago and the Yankees one hundred years ago. 1948. What a faroff time.

Walker Percy