Quotes About Toxic Waste

#1. Lies are the social equivalent of toxic waste: Everyone is potentially harmed by their spread.

Sam Harris

#2. 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

#3. Once a landscape is industrialized, its wild character is lost for good. You can't recreate untouched tundra, mountain meadows, crystal clear streams, and animals that have never encountered toxic waste.

Frances Beinecke

#4. One man's toxic waste is another man's potpourri.

Jim Carrey

#5. The environment is the most important, the most fundamental, civil-rights issue ... Four out of every five toxic-waste dumps in America is in a black neighborhood.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

#6. Have you been playing in toxic waste lately?

James Patterson

#7. Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.

Rachel Cusk

#8. I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to it.

Lawrence Summers

#9. I'm a toxic waste byproduct of God's creation.

Chuck Palahniuk

#10. The way I see it, living in New Jersey is a challenge, what with the toxic waste and the eighteen wheelers and the armed schizophrenics. Connie Rosolli

Janet Evanovich

#11. When fluoridated water was first introduced as a potential prevention against tooth decay, it was a natural product: calcium fluoride, to be exact. Now if there's fluoride in our water, it is sodium fluoride, which is literally a toxic waste product of the aluminum industry.

Amy Myers

#12. I will not vote for a candidate who thinks you can 'pray away the gay;' I will not vote for a candidate who thinks that he has more rights to my uterus than I do; I will not vote for a candidate who thinks that it's okay to dump toxic waste in the ocean.

Sophia Bush

#13. There is not a simple gene pool entirely free of toxic waste.

Lois Greiman

#14. My head is killing me, my throat is killing me, my stomach bubbles with toxic waste. I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid if this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#15. Look at the toxic waste that most people put into the fertile garden of their minds every single day: the worries and anxieties, the fretting about the past, the brooding over the future and those self-created fears that wreak havoc within your inner world.

Robin S. Sharma

#16. You know how gossip is. It's the toxic waste of small town

Nicholas Sparks

#17. You might live on top of the biggest toxic waste dump on the planet, but if you never dig, then all you ever know is that your grass is green and your garden is lush.

Jodi Picoult

#18. Fang: Have you guys been playing in the toxic waste again? Been bitten by a radioactive spider? Struck by lightning? Drink a super-soldier serum?

James Patterson

#19. During the Cold War, workers proudly contributed to national defense, but the carelessness and haste in handling toxic waste created a nightmare of pollution for subsequent generations.

Bobbie Ann Mason

#20. There is a fine line between compassion and a victim mentality. Compassion though is a healing force and comes from a place of kindness towards yourself. Playing the victim is a toxic waste of time that not only repels other people, but also robs the victim of ever knowing true happiness.

Bronnie Ware

#21. What these people do here is obviously not working. They sit in their commuter traffic hour after hour. They make the earth a toxic waste dump.

Frederick Lenz

#22. With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?

Yehuda Berg

#23. The U.S. population, a mere four or five percent of the world total, creates half the world's toxic waste.

Helen Caldicott

#24. The human body was designed by a civil engineer. Who else would run a toxic waste pipeline through a recreational area ?

Robin Williams

#25. Superfund was passed with the good intention of cleaning up America's toxic waste sites.

Fred Thompson

#26. Look, rodent." At least she could still talk.. "Either chop off my ears so I'm not subjected to your verbal projectiles or clench your back passage so you'd stop dumping toxic waste.

Auden Johnson

#27. There is more than one way to lose your life; quickly through violence, or fettered-away and wasted around dreadful, toxic people.

Bryant McGill

#28. Sing a song of Tar Ponds City, party full of lies! Four and twenty liars, seventeen hands caught in pies! When the pie was cut, Hugh Briss began to sing! Wasn't that a stonewall rat to set before the Fossil's ding?

Beatrice Rose Roberts

#29. I might be the hazardous waste site that polluted it, but Cape Breton Island is still my home.

Rebecca McNutt

#30. Don't waste another minute dealing with a toxic, negative, energy-draining person. Some people are wired for negativity. They love being argumentative, combative and abusive. Run for your life as quickly as possible.

Les Brown

#31. Eighty percent of global warming is the result of man's wrongful use of the resources of the planet and the dumping of millions upon millions of tons of nuclear and other waste in the world, creating great toxic areas all over our skies, our oceans, our rivers, and the earth.

Benjamin Creme

#32. The western model of growth that India and China wish to emulate is intrinsically toxic. It uses huge resources - energy and materials - and generates enormous waste ... it remains many steps behind the problems it creates. India and China have no choice but to reinvent the development trajectory

Sunita Narain