I say we have not even had the decency to maintain the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us - our roads, our bridges, our wastewater systems, our sewer systems; by the way, those weren't Bolsheviks, those weren't socialists that built those things for us - much less build the infrastructure we need for the 21st century.
Quotes about sewer (16 Quotes)
And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
It isn't just a bridge project, it's a sewer project. We have known from the outset that it would be awhile before we could work out an agreement with Central San. Whenever there is more than one agency involved, it adds to the complexity of the project.
The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.
As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts.
The great physician, Dr. Henry G. Armitage, Jr., states, 'Not without comment shall it come to pass that a state (so fretful for the preservation of the praying mantis but holding an unborn baby to be of no account) can send a spark of immortality swinging out into limbo and conspire with citizen and physician to turn a fragile, living object of simple innocence and complex wonder into a pathetic pulp and consign it by rude and peremptory passage to the furnace or sewer unknown, unwanted and undefended.' He further questions how a woman as 'the fertile adornment of our race can be deluded into the notion that she is a mere poetress of unwanted luggage or be by blandishment seduced into believing that she has dominion over life not her own.' He says, 'An abortion is never commonplace, for the world holds no heartbreak like the death of innocence.'
Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy.
We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet. In my view we have nothing to show for it. We haven't invested in our roads, our bridges, our waste-water systems, our sewer systems. We haven't even maintained the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us.
Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton.
Rigging a loudspeaker and a microphone at both ends of a sewer pipe.
The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
SYLPH, n. 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.
Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
The sea is the universal sewer.
We want to focus a lot of attention on this neighborhood. We want to upgrade the water lines, public sewer system and pave the streets.