Scrap Heap Quotes

#1. It bothers me when I hear it in a car commercial or some such. But for the most part, it's better than seeing sacred music relegated to the scrap heap.

Richard Morris

#2. Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.

Helen Keller

#3. All the people ought to decide, but now most states are tossed on the scrap heap and ignored

John Anderson

#4. The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

Ayn Rand

#5. When my pop career was over, I was scratching my head, thinking, "God, how am I going to do something after I'm forty?" I was in my mid-thirties, thinking I was on the scrap heap.

Nick Lowe

#6. As soon as you reach a certain age, you're thrown onto a kind of mental scrap heap.

Joanna Lumley

#7. I was impossible. I don't know how anyone could have lived with me. For the first time in my life, I was on the scrap heap, an unemployed worker.

Paul McCartney

#8. Old soldiers never die - they're just thrown on the scrap heap!

Pat Mills

#9. Steinbeck wasn't the thirties and Dickens wasn't the eighteen-hundreds. They were of their times but for the ages. Their writings are not products marketed for a brief time until they're out of vogue and discarded on the scrap heap.

Elliot Perlman

#10. This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.

George Bernard Shaw

#11. There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination.

Robert Breault

#12. Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

Simone De Beauvoir

#13. The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children.

William Shakespeare

#14. Lie beside me, oh my beloved! For thy thorns are more pleasurable than the petals of the world.
Hold me in thy arms of hope, for the truth of separation can rest tonight.

Faraaz Kazi

#15. I think Charlize Theron is just as good when she is looking really pretty in a movie as when she gains 10 pounds and puts on a nose. I applaud her - good for her that she doesn't care. But she's just as good, whether she's pretty or not.

Diane Kruger

#16. There is no problem. And I'd like to keep it that way."
"Fine, ya big pussy."
"You have to know that's not an insult to me, right?

Shelly Laurenston

#17. Cyrus had once claimed that revenge was what made the world go round. Back then Evie had argued with him that it was love. But now she knew better.

Sarah Alderson

#18. The word 'Sat' [Truth, eternal] belongs to 360 degrees. The degree, at which one is at, is the degree that one believes to be true. And the 'Sat' that is the final and the eternal truth, is in the 'center'.

Dada Bhagwan

#19. When you first meet an investor, you've got to be able to say in one compelling sentence - that you should practice like crazy - what your product does, so that the investor that you are talking to can immediately picture the product in their own mind.

Ron Conway

#20. Dissent is the mark of freedom.

Jacob Bronowski

#21. 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

#22. Today, in directly harnessing the power of the Sun, we're taking the energy that God gave us, the most renewable energy that we will ever see, and using it to replace our dwindling supplies of fossil fuels.

Jimmy Carter

#23. Christ sometimes delays His help so He may test our faith and energize our prayers. Our boat may be tossed by the waves while he continues to sleep, but He will awake before it sinks.

Mrs. Charles E. Cowman

#24. It's exactly the thing that I'm reduced to doing for myself. It seems to rescue a little, you see, from the wreck of hopes and ambitions, the refuse-heap of disappointments and failures, my one presentable little scrap of an identity.

Henry James

#25. Often love is offered to you, but you do not recognize it. You discard it because you are fixed on receiving it from the same person to whom you gave it.

Henri J.M. Nouwen