Sewers Quotes - Page 3

• The sewer is the conscience of the city.

  Victor Hugo

  Cities, Water, Conscience

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.857, Wordsworth Editions

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• Feeding plants to animals then eating the animals is like filtering water through a sewer then drinking it.

  Bruce Friedrich

  Drinking, Animal, Water

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• Y mi boca no es una cloaca, aunque algunos piensen que sí.

  Laura Prepon

  Pensamiento, Gente, Bocas

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• The only men who can turn my blood stream into a condition resembling heavy surf are good-looking heels with characters as intricately unpleasant as the sewers of Paris. With decent and honorable gents, I come all over Platonic. Was ever a woman so perverse and wrongheaded?

  Margaret Halsey

  Character, Men, Blood

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• So, the point I'm making is, we are not going to cut spending in Washington if we think it's the job of every congressman and senators to pave local parking lots and build local sewer plants. These parochial interests are getting in the way of the national interests.

  Jim DeMint

  Trabajo, Recorte, Pensamiento

  "Sen. Jim DeMint: 'We Are Monetizing Our Debt'". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. November 8, 2010.

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• I came out of school one day, and there was this pulp magazine. It was a rainy day, and it was floating toward the sewer in the gutter. So I pick up this pulp magazine, and it's Wonder Stories, and it's got a rocket-ship on the cover, and I'd never seen a rocket-ship.

  Jack Kirby

  School, Rainy Day, One Day

  Fuente: www.tcj.com

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• I see no real argument in Britain that is concerned that an Indian company owns our most successful car manufacturer or that the sewer system under London is being renewed in part by Chinese investment. There are the odd voices that express concern but they are very marginal and they are not being listened to by the British people.

  George Osborne

  Real, Successful, Voice

  Fuente: www.economist.com

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• Si he de ser una vía, prefiero que sea de los arroyos de la montaña, de los arroyos parnasianos, y no de las cloacas de la ciudad. Existe la inspiración, ese chisme que llega al oído de la mente atenta desde los atrios del cielo. Existe la revelación profana y rancia de la cantina y del tribunal de policía. El mismo oído está preparado para recibir ambas comunicaciones. Sólo el carácter del oyente determina a cuál estará abierto y a cuál cerrado.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Communication, Character

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.137, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Money has never been important to me. I come from garbage. I'm a sewer rat who made it here. I have no interest in money and never have.

  Dane DeHaan

  Important, Rats, Garbage

  Fuente: collider.com

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• In Koln, a town of monks and bones,
  And pavement fang'd with murderous stones,
  And rags and hags, and hideous wenches,
  I counted two-and-seventy stenches,
  All well defined, and several stinks!
  Ye nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks,
  The River Rhine, it is well known,
  Doth wash your city of Cologne;
  But tell me, nymphs! what power divine
  Shall henceforth whash the river Rhine.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Cities, Two, Rivers

  1828 'Cologne', first published in Friendship's Offering (1834), as 'Lightheartedness in Rhyme', no.4.

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• We can't leave everything to the free market. In fact, climate change is, I would argue, the greatest single free-market failure. This is what happens when you don't regulate corporations and you allow them to treat the atmosphere as an open sewer.

  Naomi Klein

  Atmosphere, Climate, Corporations

  "Naomi Klein on Capitalism and Climate Change". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. November 15, 2012.

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• Siempre me he hecho mi propia ropa, desde que era pequeña. Era una pésima costurera, pero siempre estaba cortando y personalizando.

  Geri Halliwell

  Girl, Cutting, Clothes

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• We need to put a price on carbon, and that's what cap-and-trade does and that's also what a CO2 tax does. As long as our current valuation in the marketplace tells us every minute of every day that it's perfectly all right to dump 90 million tons of global warming into the thin atmosphere surrounding the planet every 24 hours as if that atmosphere is an open sewer, then the individual actions are not going to solve the problem.

  Al Gore

  Long, Atmosphere, Doe

  "¿Qué demonios creen que lo está causando?". Entrevista con John Dickerson, www.slate.com. 8 de diciembre de 2009.

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• That conversation... was as dirty as a sewer! It is not enough for you to take no part in it. You must show your repugnance for it strongly!

  Josemaría Escrivá

  Dirty, Enough, Conversation

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• It turns out - this is a metaphor out of [Charles] Dickens - that the raw sewage emptied into the Anacostia comes from the Federal Triangle. I have a sewer map, and on it you can see the pipe from which congressional wastes empty into the river that then flows through the black neighborhoods of Washington, D.C. It is very expensive to do anything about the river, but somebody's working on it.

  Robert Hass

  Rivers, Black, Maps

  "Robert Hass", por Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. Marzo/abril de 1997.

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• Social mobility decreased under Labour and under the current government it is reversing. The differences between the poorest and richest are returning to Victorian levels. We don't have open sewers and infant mortality rates at fifty percent but in economic terms we're getting to a level of disparity we haven't seen for a couple of hundred years. And we're getting there very quickly.

  Jonathan Trigell

  Couple, Government, Years

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The sea is the universal sewer.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Sea, Conservation

  1971 Testimony before the House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 28 Jan.

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• There are 10,000 local governments in the state of New York. Ten thousand! Town, village, lighting district, water district, sewer district, a special district to count the other districts in case you missed a district.

  Andrew Cuomo

  New York, Government, Water

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• When I grew up in Seattle, by the way, in the 70's, it was a fishing village. There were loggers and fishers and my dad had a sewer company and it wasn't the way Seattle is now. Culturally, it was very different back then.

  Rainn Wilson

  Dad, Fishing, Different

  Source: mynorthwest.com

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• Other thing we need to understand is that the financial power of the fossil fuel industry has so far prevented even any minor progress. They have a sweetheart deal unlike any other business on Earth: they're allowed to dispose of their waste for free, to use the atmosphere as an open sewer. And they will do all they can to defend that special privilege.

  Bill McKibben

  Atmosphere, Special, Progress

  Fuente: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• During the whole month that negroes were being beaten by police and washed down the sewer with water hoses, Kennedy and - and King was in jail begging for the federal government to intervene, Kennedy's reply was, "No federal statutes have been violated." And it was only when the negroes erupted that Kennedy come on the television with all his old pretty words.

  Malcolm X

  Kings, Jail, Government

  Entrevista con Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. 2 de junio de 1964.

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• An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Air, Civilization, Elements

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.215, 谷月社

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• No hay lugar tan ignorado y dejado de la mano de Dios que algún imbécil no vaya allí de vacaciones. La gente podría estar viviendo en una cloaca abierta y tragando tierra para dejar de pasar hambre, y habría allí una pareja de Larchmont con zapatos cómodos para hacerles fotos.

  Thomas Perry

  Pareja, Vacaciones, Zapatos

  Thomas Perry (1989). "Island", Avon Books

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• So they caught Gadhafi in a storm sewer and shot him. Or as they call it in the Middle East, an orderly transfer of power.

  David Letterman

  Storm, Middle East, Caught

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• Hay ciertas cosas que los estadounidenses esperan que haga su gobierno. Nuestras infraestructuras son de vital importancia. Volver a poner a la gente a trabajar con la construcción es importante. Nuestras carreteras, nuestros puentes, nuestras alcantarillas, nuestras vías fluviales, nuestras presas: esto es lo que hace tan especial a nuestro país.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Country, Government, Bridges

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