Quotes About Sewage

#1. Sewage works that serve big cities run into trouble when the cities grow up around them.

Rose George

#2. Anyone who objects to any government whatsoever as a form of socialism ought not to pull that socialist lever in their home, the one that makes their waste disappear in a whirlpool into the socialized sewage treatment plant.

John Medaille

#3. And the charming little cottage he'd taken as a symbol of the good life of a farmer was as irrelevant as a statue of Venus at the gate of a sewage-disposal plant.

Kurt Vonnegut

#4. Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things.

Jack Hannah

#5. Those are some of the most powerful people in the world, and you swamped them in sewage! If you had real friends, they'd have told you that you're an idiot for even thinking about doing that!"

Tom bristled, indignant. "My friends do tell me I'm an idiot. All the time!

S.J. Kincaid

#6. Why do they bother saying "raw sewage"? Do some people actually cook that stuff?

George Carlin

#7. I didn't bring you up to speak as if your mouth were filled with sewage.

Diane Samuels

#8. The lessons in measurement of cloacal forces. Time as a flow of sewage. The excrement of space, scatology of creation. The voiding of the self. The whole filthy integration of things and the nocturnal product . . . drowning in the pools of night.

Thomas Ligotti

#9. The cottages are full of life. It's incredible to think they are filled with people who know nothing of computerised technology, nor even running water, sewage systems or electricity. And yet here they live. Surviving.

Marianne Curley

#10. With my biology degree, I got this job at an environmental lab. We tested sewage runoff, we tested chemical warfare waste runoff. It's a job I'll never do again and I would never wish upon anybody.

Dustin Lynch

#11. Though his invention worked superbly [ ... ] his theory was a crock of sewage from beginning to end.

Vernor Vinge

#12. Things like water and sewage systems require states in a large-scale society, but states are also a good mechanism for dealing with health care, education, public transportation, and infrastructure.

Cynthia Kauffman

#13. We can make most, if not all, of America's fuel from alcohol, from bits of plants leftover after they are harvested, from the hundreds of millions of tons of municipal waste we produce, and the over 1 trillion gallons of sewage we produce.

Josh Tickell

#14. Besides, this was the gentle-going hour in which he hated Annawadi least. The pale sun lent the sewage lake a sparkling silver cast, and the parrots nesting at the far side of the lake could still be heard over the jets.

Katherine Boo

#15. But Ava, you are probably saying, he looks like Brad Pitt? You could dunk Brad Pitt in raw sewage and I'd still ride him like a roller coaster.

T.W. Brown

#16. Then this other guy, the thirteenth guy, comes crashing right into me. Even with all that was going on I thought, Drug addict. He was pale and sweaty, stank like raw sewage, and had a glazed bug-eyed stare. Sick bastard even tried to bite me, but

Jonathan Maberry

#17. Particular nuisances (are) smoke, sewage odours, dust and similar aerosols, and vibrations.

Yehuda Levi

#18. She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

George Meredith

#19. They opened the bilge, slopping out all the plane's sewage in a midnight

Adam Johnson

#20. As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything we did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life.

Sylvia Earle

#21. Mr. Incandenza, this is the Enfield Raw Sewage Commission, and quite frankly we've had enough shit out of you.

David Foster Wallace

#22. Inside, I gagged. The floor was awash with excrement. Blocked toilet bowls brimmed with sewage. The place looked as if it hadn't been cleaned in weeks. Nobody had noticed, because nobody who mattered ever went in there.

Geraldine Brooks

#23. We may not have sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, but we do have democracy.

Aravind Adiga

#24. God displayed a sense of humor when he configured the region between our legs an entertainment complex built around a sewage system.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#25. Too many cars, too many factories, too much detergent, too much pesticides, multiplying contrails, inadequate sewage treatment plants, too little water, too much carbon dioxide - all can be traced easily to too many people.

Paul R. Ehrlich

#26. There is no excuse-and we should call a spade a spade-for chemical companies and oil refineries using our major rivers as pipelines for toxic waste. There is no excuse for communities to use other people's rivers as a dump for their raw sewage.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#27. I consider myself a D.I.Y. home improvement guy. In a prior life, I completely gutted a house - redid the plumbing, wiring, moved sewage pipes, knocked down walls, everything.

Gary Locke

#28. Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.

Glen Duncan

#29. In Ghazalia, Mr. Hussein showed his contempt for the majority Shiites in ways large and small. He refused to allow them even one mosque, while the Sunnis had nearly a dozen. To worship, the Shiites had to cross an inconveniently located bridge over the sewage canal to Shula.

Alex Berenson

#30. Well, you see how big he was. Apparently he broke through a latrine seat and drowned in the sewage below." A shitty way to go,

Nicholas Eames

#31. He didn't think it possible to sign sewage-sucking-excuse-of-a-baseborn-bilge-rat but somehow Gurn managed.

Grace Draven

#32. To say accounting for derivatives is Americais a sewer is an insult to sewage.

Charlie Munger

#33. Her gaze settling on Bush International Airport. What is it with politicians anyway, always rushing to put their name on everything? She couldn't think of a single politician who deserved his name on a sewage treatment facility, much less an airport where everyone had to look at it all the time.

D.B. Reynolds

#34. Technically speaking, the pond should be full of carp, but Hiro is American enough to think of carp as inedible dinosaurs that sit on the bottom and eat sewage.

Neal Stephenson

#35. One of the great virtues of Confucianism was its suppleness. Western political thought tended to be rather brittle; as soon as the state became corrupt, everything ceased to make sense. Confucianism always retained its equilibrium, like a cork that could float as well in spring water or raw sewage.

Neal Stephenson

#36. Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

Stephen Fry

#37. After two weeks of feeling dead numb, I decided the sewage system needed the pills more than I did, so I flushed them all down the toilet.

Kate Ellison

#38. reeking of sewage and rotting corpses, burned-out shells of houses, feral dogs

Rick Yancey

#39. Move your lymph system. Lymph is like a sewage system that carries all of the toxins out of your body.

Valentina Zelyaeva

#40. I can't kill myself, I thought. I'm too insignificant. I'm nothing. I'm a thumbprint on the first-floor window of a skyscraper, a smudge of excrement on a tissue surging out to sea along with millions of tons of raw sewage, a squirrel eating a nut as a car bore down on him.

Rex Pickett

#41. I worry about Zimbabweans. They bend, they bend, they bend, they bend - where do the people break? How long can they go on scrounging for food in garbage dumps and using the moisture from sewage drains to plant vegetables?

Samantha Power

#42. Lake Powell: storage pond, silt trap, evaporation tank and garbage dispose-all, a 180-mile-long incipient sewage lagoon.

Edward Abbey

#43. That would be a first. I'm the son of Hades, Jason. I might as well be covered in blood or sewage, the way people treat me. I don't belong anywhere. I'm not even from this century. But even that's not enough to set me apart. I've got to be - to be -

Rick Riordan

#44. Down there between our legs, it's like an entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system. Who designed that?

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#45. Green roofs, roadside plantings, porous pavement, and sidewalk gardens have been proven to reduce flooding. They absorb rainwater before it swamps the streets and sewage systems.

Frances Beinecke

#46. Really? That would be a first. I'm the son of Hades, Jason. I might as well be covered in blood or sewage, the way people treat me. I don't belong anywhere. I'm not even from this century. But that's not enough to set me apart.

Rick Riordan

#47. The bridges were quite popular as building sites,because they had a very convenient sewage system and, of course, a source of fresh water.

Terry Pratchett

#48. My favourite place in the world - the south beach at Aberystwyth -has a sewage outfall pipe on it

Caitlin Moran

#49. Then, there are the places you would rather not go-a tax collectors' convention, a sewage treatment plant, or maybe the home of someone who keeps spiders as pets and insists on taking them out of their cages and making you hold them.

Obert Skye

#50. Evil smelled like nothing else, worse than a rotting corpse, worse than sewage and disease, more vile than the fumes that billowed from modern machinery, more cloying than the shame of drunken whores.

India Drummond

#51. I did stuff for three years in Kabul that I found exciting, and a lot of that was fixing roofs, talking about sewage installation.

Rory Stewart

#52. I went down to the sewers in London and looked at a campaigning group in London called RATS, Rowers Against Thames Sewage, and I went to Sewage School and hung out with kids learning to make sewage soup and how to clean sewage. And it was great - really good fun.

Rose George

#53. They eat the sewage that floats on the surface of the mass culture, digest it, and then get creative diarrhea
all at once. The turd look and smell exactly alike, and we call them this year's fashions, hit shows, books, and movies.

John Varley

#54. The world's sewage system threatens to contaminate the stream of Christian thought. Satan will contest every hour you spend in Bible reading or prayer.

Billy Graham

#55. 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

#56. And our nation, though it has no drinking water, electricity, sewage system, public transportation, sense of hygiene, discipline, courtesy, or punctuality, does have entrepreneurs.

Aravind Adiga

#57. Excuse me," Helen interrupted. "Did you say sewage tunnels?"
Darius grinned. "That I did, Princess.

Michelle Zink

#58. Peak sewage usage was routinely measured at halftime of the Super Bowl.

Chris Anderson

#59. She was playing with semantics. I felt certain that she understood the word "tip" in English. She enjoyed pretending that she thought I wanted the Duchess to be upside down with her face buried in the sewage of some manhole while her beautifully shod feet waved desperate high-heels in the air.

Caroline Blackwood