Quotes About Tin Cans

#1. here he dug in his pockets and produced a thimble, a root, two empty tin cans, three Indian arrowheads, an apple peeler, a dried-up boll weevil, and a bent pocketknife.

James McBride

#2. For here, I'm sitting in a tin can, far above the world. Planet earth is blue, and there is nothing I can do.

David Bowie

#3. I'm wearing a dress the color of dead forests and old tin cans.

Tahereh Mafi

#4. Why does a salmon rise? Why does a small boy cross the street just to kick a tin can?

Lee Wulff

#5. Scientology , how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion ?

Frank Zappa

#6. The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

Elbert Hubbard

#7. I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work.

Jack Kerouac

#8. Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.

Jonathan Edwards

#9. My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

Dolly Parton

#10. Not only did I win the fight, but I won something that's more than a fight could ever give me and that is gaining back a family.

Nonito Donaire

#11. The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.

Mary Antin

#12. The help we give to others creates the ripple of good feeling we give to ourselves.

Gina Greenlee

#13. Every single record I make is an act of faith in a sense, and somewhere I also have faith that the people who need to hear my music somehow will.

Thalia Zedek

#14. I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold.

Charlie Sheen

#15. If you have not failed yet in your life then you haven't tried anything meaningful.

Debasish Mridha

#16. Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent ... this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.

Alan Watts

#17. Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go.

Carew Papritz

#18. We picked some pea pods, opened them and ate the peas inside. Peas baffled me. I could not understand why grown-ups would take things that tasted so good when they were freshly-picked and raw, and put them in tin cans, and make them revolting.

Neil Gaiman

#19. I drove to Oxford with my van full of petrol and tin cans, as I didn't know there were service stations on the motorway. I pulled up on the hard shoulder and got my cans out. Then I filled up and set off again. That's how naive I was - so much not a cosmopolitan girl.

Jeanette Winterson

#20. A right election can only be made by those who have knowledge;

Aristotle.

#21. I dug through my purse for the Glock. There is was, and I realized I'd never set the safety. I decided to consider this a great example of forethought rather than my being the stupidest gun handler on the planet.

Gini Koch

#22. The instruments of war can be manufactured ... human blood cannot be; and the lack of just one pint could mean the life of an American serviceman.

George C. Marshall

#23. My grandma used to plant tomato seedlings in tin cans from tomato sauce & puree & crushed tomatoes she got from the Italian restaurant by her house, but she always soaked the labels off first. I don't want them to be anxious about the future, she said. It's not healthy.

Brian Andreas

#24. There is already enough chattering nonsense on the ground. Do we really need aviaries in pressurised tin cans at 30,000 feet as well ?

Alex Morritt

#25. I dropped a word from the string of negative adjectives that had trailed behind me like tin cans behind the village idiot. Unappreciated, unloved, unmarried. But no longer unpublished.

Francine Prose

#26. You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.

Josephine Tey

#27. Images have their way of dissolving and then abruptly returning, pulling along the joy and pain attached to them like tin cans rattling from the back of an old-fashioned wedding vehicle.

Patti Smith

#28. The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks.

Fanny Kemble

#29. The definition of a Dark Age is that we no longer remember what we once could do.

Jerry Pournelle

#30. He's just jealous. You know what they say. Empty tin cans make the most noise, and he's an empty tin can. This game is between the Bears and the Eagles, not Ditka and Ryan. We all know who would win that one. Ditka, hands down.

Mike Ditka

#31. Mobiles, land lines, tin cans with tiny bits of string, everything absolutely everything no phones phones all broken. Hello any one there NO cuz the phone aren't working

Gareth David-Lloyd