Best Debris Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Don't be in temper, to leave so quickly, that I may be dying. But all too soon, the leaves and debris will gather elsewhere.”

Feelings Change Dying Quote Angry Temper Elsewhere Irrational Garbage Leave Hidden Season Debris Leaves Consider Quick Soon Gather Subdue Unknowingly Fast Reaction

Author:Anthony Liccione

“The small launch bay was littered with debris. A powerful breeze tore at his black silk shirt as Kilroy made his way across it to the waiting shuttle, evoking a feeling like the fingers of fate were caressing his body. “The Hammer” stepped over the body of one of his fallen crew without a trace of care or concern. The air was rushing past him, like a wind, out into space through the wounds in the side of his ship. Fatigued and desperate, the Hammer was running out of options. His ship was a mess, holed in a dozen places, the life support systems failing. Weakened hull sections were collapsing in pressure bursts. The vibrations that shook the deck beneath him now were not from the engines that once drove her forward, but now from the explosions down below, tearing her apart.”

Way Body Fate Failing Wind Concern Wounds Mess Fallen Desperate Places Forward Ship Debris Him Options From Without Apart Shuttle Below Collapsing Littered Bursts

Book:Dead Beckoning

Source: Dead Beckoning

“These are the attributes of Bullshit people; they will...blur your imagination, take your endowments for a piece of debris, make you ridiculous, and most importantly, you got to send them to the recycle bin.”

“Happiness attracts debris as something new sometimes.”

Love Life Care Past Happiness Return Future New Old Debris

Author:Goitsemang Mvula

“And it all seems to have meaning, even the broken machinery, The abandoned oil wells, the rowboat sunk in the ice of winter... Is this waste, this debris a necessary part of our energy?”

Poetry Energy Poem Meaning Machinery Debris Abandoned Things

Book:Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

“If you study the rhythm of life on this planet, you will find that everything moves in perfect symphony with everything else — by grand divine design. The earth has the ability to heal and regenerate itself, just as our oceans have the ability to replenish themselves by turning over their debris with the waves to wash them ashore. This perfect orchestration of the cycle of life is one of the Creator's greatest and most beautiful miracles. The earth will continue to exist with or without us. So the real concern should be, will we be able to continue to co-exist with each other?”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Every few blocks were vacant lots where victory gardens had been planted at the height of the war. By then, they were wrecked and full of debris. Once in a while, when you looked down at the sidewalk along the lots, you’d see a blade of grass growing up out of the concrete. That’s what my friend, the acting teacher Lee Strasberg, once called talent: a blade of grass growing up out of a block of concrete.”

Talent Garden Grass Concrete Sidewalk Bronx Debris Al Pacino Lee Strasberg South Bronx

Book:Sonny Boy: A Memoir

Source: Sonny Boy: A Memoir

“O capitalismo é o que sobra quando as crenças colapsam ao nível da elaboração ritual e simbólica, e tudo o que resta é o consumidor-espectador, cambaleando trôpego entre ruínas e relíquias.”

Debris Late Capitalism

Book:Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

Source: Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

“It is only a matter of time before the Space program kills a civilian with a piece of rocket or satellite debris.”

Matter Time Space Program Debris Satellite Rocket Piece Kills Civilian

Author:Steven Magee

“A spirit of practicality had come to her aid. It was only human. When the earthquake stops, when the flood recedes, when the volcanic dust settles or the guns fall silent, the survivors pick their way through the rubble and debris and wreckage. A chair leg here, a first communion certificate or a bundle of love letters there. The flotsam and jetsam of the old ways―the ways that will never return.”

War Flood Survivors Old Ways Debris Wreckage Earthquake Volcanic Eruption

Book:The Apothecary’s House

Source: The Apothecary’s House

“A God who knew the answer to that question would indeed know everything and have everything. For that reason he would be unmotivated to do anything or create anything. There would be no purpose to act in any way whatsoever. But a God who had one nagging question—what happens if I cease to exist?—might be motivated to find the answer in order to complete his knowledge. ... The fact that we exist is proof that God is motivated to act in some way. And since only the challenge of self-destruction could interest an omnipotent God, it stands to reason that we... are God's debris.”

God Omnipotence Debris Pandeism

Book:God's Debris: A Thought Experiment

Source: God's Debris: A Thought Experiment

“Peanut shells are not debris, but merely the byproduct of too much revelry...”

Peanuts Debris Bar Partying Revelry Drinking Quotes

Author:Nanette L. Avery

“Too often we only identify the crucial points in our lives in retrospect. At the time we are too absorbed in the fetid detail of the moment to spot where it is leading us. But not this time. I was experiencing one of my dad’s deafening moments. If my life could be understood as a meal of many courses (and let’s be honest, much of it actually was), then I had finished the starters and I was limbering up for the main event. So far, of course, I had made a stinking mess of it. I had spilled the wine. I had dropped my cutlery on the floor and sprayed the fine white linen with sauce. I had even spat out some of my food because I didn’t like the taste of it. “But it doesn’t matter because, look, here come the waiters. They are scraping away the debris with their little horn and steel blades, pulled with studied grace from the hidden pockets of their white aprons. They are laying new tablecloths, arranging new cutlery, placing before me great domed wine glasses, newly polished to a sparkle. There are more dishes to come, more flavors to try, and this time I will not spill or spit or drop or splash. I will not push the plate away from me, the food only half eaten. I am ready for everything they are preparing to serve me. Be in no doubt; it will all be fine.” (pp.115-6)”

Source: Eating Crow: A Novel of Apology

“What can you expect from a stupid government? Anything good? Anything useful, anything clever? Anything just? No! You can expect nothing but stupidity, nothing but mistakes, nothing but injustices and tragedies! All a stupid government can do is to produce wrecks and debris!”

“As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of their suffering, we feel deeply and profoundly that we should be there, in Haiti, with them, trying our best to prevent death.”

People Thinking Knows Feels Should Trying Suffering Waiting Buried Haiti Debris Rubble Trying Our Best

Author:Jean-Bertrand Aristide

“Don't destroy yourself by allowing negative people add gibberish and debris to your character, reputation, and aspirations. Keep all dreams alive but discreet, so that those with unhealthy tongues won't have any other option than to infest themselves with their own diseases.”

People Character Dream Alive Disease Negative Add Tongue Reputation Aspiration Allowing Unhealthy Negative People Debris Discreet

Author:Michael Bassey

“But we have not used our waters well. Our major rivers are defiled by noxious debris. Pollutants from cities and industries kill the fish in our streams. Many waterways are covered with oil slicks and contain growths of algae that destroy productive life and make the water unfit for recreation. "Polluted Water-No Swimming" has become a familiar sign on too many beaches and rivers. A lake that has served many generations of men now can be destroyed by man in less than one generation.”

“Puppies are constantly inventing new ways to be bad. It's fascinating. You come into a room they've been in and see pieces of debris and try to figure out what you had that was made from wicker or what had been stuffed with fluff.”

Way Trying Made Rooms Pieces Figures Fascinating New Ways Puppy Inventing Debris Fluff

Author:Julie Klam

“That which we call civilization is merely the accumulated debris of a chilling number of bad nights.”

Night Numbers Civilization Chill Debris Bad Night

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair. Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts. This may be the vocation of man: to say "Amen" to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.”

Men Humans Heart May Might Doubt Despair Infinite Bottom Defeat Deeper Spite Faith In God Absurdity Human Heart Abyss Vocation Anchors Defiance Futility Amen Debris

Book:Who is Man?

Source: Who is Man?

“Look here brother, who you jivin' with that cosmik debris?”

Looks Brother Debris

Author:Frank Zappa

“We're not trying to prove the character of God through science. That's a bad idea. What I'm trying to do is clear away the misunderstandings, the debris that prevent people from accepting that God who wants to accept them.”

People Want Trying Ideas Character Accepting Clear Prove Misunderstanding Bad Ideas Debris Character Of God

Author:Phillip E. Johnson

“Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so the firing has to be abandoned.”

Ifs Artist Worst Elements Stones Abandoned Splits Explosions Firing Debris

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries.”

Past History Minutes Century Mountain Gold Infinite Particles Sierra Debris Nevada

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Slowly the wasters and despoilers are impoverishing our land, our nature, and our beauty, so that there will not be one beach, one hill, one lane, one meadow, one forest free from the debris of man and the stigma of his improvidence.”

Men Environment Land Forests Hills Beach Lanes Stigma Meadows Debris

Book:More in Anger

Source: More in Anger

“I try to explain the difference to a client between cleaning and restoration.Cleaning is simply removing some light to moderate soils. Restoration is removing those hardened deposits and stains that require heavier cleaners and much more time. Or on a building that has just been built or renovated it's removing all the construction debris. Setting expectations can go a long way to having and keeping satisfied customers.”

“Out of the debris of a statue thoroughly shattered a new art work is born: a naked foot unforgettably resting on a stone; a candid hand; a bent knee which contains all the speed of the foot race; a torso which has no face to prevent us from loving it.”

Art Hands Faces Born Race Feet Stones Speed Naked Knees Bent Statues Shattered Candid Debris Torso

Author:Stephanie Crayencour

“Salinger is a master of the memorable detail, the seemingly random gesture, the debris of mundane daily operations, the stuff that is left out of any analysis.”

Left Stuff Masters Details Operations Analysis Memorable Gestures Mundane Left Out Debris Salinger

Author:Bill Vaughan

“When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart, some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand--a center of gravity.”

Source: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

“However dangerous might be the shock of a comet, it might be so slight, that it would only do damage at the part of the Earth where it actually struck; perhaps even we might cry quits if while one kingdom were devastated, the rest of the Earth were to enjoy the rarities which a body which came from so far might bring it. Perhaps we should be very surprised to find that the debris of these masses that we despised were formed of gold and diamonds; but who would be the most astonished, we, or the comet-dwellers, who would be cast on our Earth? What strange being each would find the other!”

“I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, And the white skeletons of young men-I saw them; I saw the debris and debris of all the dead soldiers of the war; But I saw they were not as was thought; They themselves were fully at rest-they suffer'd not; The living remain'd and suffer'd-the mother suffer'd, And the wife and the child, and the musing comrade suffer'd, And the armies that remain'd suffer'd.”

Men Children War Young Mother Suffering White Saws Wife Battle Army Soldier Young Man Veteran Corpses Comrade Skeletons Veterans Day Musings Debris Dead Soldiers

Book:Passage to India

Source: Passage to India

“The debris of civilization litters the landscapes and spoils the beaches. Conservation's concerns now is not only for man's enjoyment-but for man's survival.”

Men Civilization Survival Concern Environmental Landscape Beach Enjoyment Pollution Conservation Spoil Debris

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969

“Most of the pollution in the water already is dead animal and plant matter and building debris, ... good stagnant nursery for mosquitoes.”

Matter Water Animal Building Plant Pollution Nursery Stagnant Mosquitoes Debris

Author:James Wright

“The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history. Only the strong, only the industrious, only the determined, only the courageous, only the visionary who determine the real nature of our struggle can possibly survive.”

Real Self Strong Struggle Determine Determined Courageous Visionaries Complacent Industrious Swept Away Debris Self Indulgent

Author:John F. Kennedy

“I have no policy for my collection. For example, there's a bunch of meteorite [on the windowsill in my studio]. I touch it and I feel the energy from the universe. I have a 1/1,000th of a fragment of stone-age tools and pottery and debris. I can learn many things from my collection. Actually, the 1,000 Buddha, I wanted to buy it, but it's a National Treasure, so I couldn't. If you cannot buy it, just photograph it!”

Ifs Feels I Can Age Wanted Universe Energy Policy Example Tools Stones Photograph Studios Treasure Bunch Collections Fragments Pottery Debris Stone Age National Treasure

Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto

“I don't go to church all that regularly, and one reason I don't is very often when I go I am bored out of my wits. I find myself being addressed by preachers who, I assume, were led by some initial passion for Christ, for the truth, for God, for "the More." That's what got them there. But that has gotten buried under all the debris of having to run a church, of concerns.”

Reason Running Passion Christ Church Concern Assuming Wit Bored Buried Preacher Initials Debris

Author:Frederick Buechner

“The number one issue that Ocean Mysteries has opened my eyes to is, no matter where you are, whether you're on a beach in Hawaii, you're diving in the Pacific, you're in a remote archipelago, or you're in the middle of nowhere - I am blown away and sobered and crushed, emotionally crushed, by the amount of marine debris, of garbage, that is now in our ocean.”

Matter Eye Numbers Issues Mystery Middle Amount Ocean Beach Where You Are Hawaii Marine Garbage Crushed Pacific Diving Blown Away Debris Middle Of Nowhere

Author:Jeff Corwin

“I'm less influenced by any of [Karl] Marx's ideas today than I've ever been in my life, and most significantly Marx's theory of historical materialism, which I think is virtually a debris of despotism.”

Thinking Ideas Today Theory Historical Materialism Despotism Debris

Author:Murray Bookchin

“To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!”

Moving Hope Change Cry Possibility Embrace Instinct Uplifting This Life Glorious Hopeful Tides Debris Tilt

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.”

Courses Politician Debris

Author:Madeleine M. Kunin

“We are Jesus Christ's; we belong to him. But even more, we are increasingly him. He moves in and commandeers our hands and feet, requisitions our minds and tongues. We sense his rearranging: debris into the divine, pig's ear into silk purse. He repurposes bad decisions and squalid choices. Little by little, a new image emerges.”

Source: Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine

“Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.”

Purpose Literature Copies Anticipate Mould Debris Studying Literature

Author:Oscar Wilde

“For every bourgeois, in the heat of youth, if only for a day, for a minute, has believed himself capable of immense passions, of heroic enterprises. The most mediocre libertine has dreamed of oriental princesses; every rotary carries about inside him the debris of a poet.”

Ifs Passion Minutes Youth Poet Capable Heat Enterprise Carrie Heroic Princess Immense Mediocre Bourgeois Debris Libertine Rotary

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“We can tell much by what we have already willing discarded along the pathway of discipleship. It is the only pathway where littering is permissible, even encouraged. In the early stages, the debris left behind includes the grosser sins of commission. Later debris differs; things begin to be discarded which have caused the misuse or underuse of our time and talent.”

Left Sin Behinds Stage Talent Willing Our Time Discipleship Left Behind Pathways Discarded Misuse Debris Littering

Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“On the off chance that you have children, don't clean up at all. As children, my brother and sister and I loved waking up early and playing cocktail party with the leftover debris”

Children Women Chance Party Brother Wake Up Clean My Brother Waking Brothers And Sisters Cocktails Up Early Debris Cocktail Parties Waking Up Early

Author:Amy Sedaris

“Shooting stars are not stars at all. They re just rocks that enter the atmosphere and catch fire under friction. What we wish on when we see one is only a trail of debris.”

Wish Stars Fire Rocks Shooting Atmosphere Trails Friction Debris Shooting Star

Book:My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel

Source: My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel

“Every one of us is called upon, perhaps many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a job...And onward full-tilt we go, pitched and wrecked and absurdly resolute, driven in spite of everything to make good on a new shore. To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct...Crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is.”

Jobs Moving Loss Cry Possibility Embrace Instinct Driven This Life Glorious Spite Hopeful Shore Tides Frightening New Life Diagnosis Resolute Debris Tilt

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.”

Source: De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings

“Love is like a tide. When it's in, everything looks beautiful and inviting. Only when love recedes can you see the debris beneath the surface - the old bottles, the rusty prams, the sewage pipes, the bloated cats and dogs weighted down to drown. The man I had once loved so passionately I now saw as weak, gutted like a fish.”

Men Love Looks Age Beautiful Love Is Saws Dog Cat Weak Fishes Surface Bottles Tides Pipe Inviting Love Is Like Cat And Dog Beneath The Surface Debris Sewage Prams

Author:Kathy Lette

“I had it together on Sunday. By Monday at noon it had cracked. On Tuesday debris Was descending on me. And by Wednesday no part was intact. On Thursday I picked up some pieces. On Friday I picked up the rest. By Saturday, late, It was almost set straight. And on Sunday the world was impressed With how well I had got it together.”

World Wells Together Pieces Late Sunday Impressed Saturday Monday Friday Noon Cracked Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Descending Debris

Book:Suddenly Sixty and Other Shocks of Later Life

Source: Suddenly Sixty and Other Shocks of Later Life

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