Tin Cans Quotes

• Nunca tuvimos bañera. Mamá me bañaba en la bañera de madera o de hojalata de la cocina, o en una gran lata de manteca.

  Ethel Waters

  Mom, Kitchen, Bigs

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• For here
  Am I sitting in a tin can,
  Far above the world.
  Planet Earth is blue,
  And there's nothing I can do.

  David Bowie

  Blue, Sitting, World

  "Song: 'Space Oddity'". 1969.

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• My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

  Dolly Parton

  Two, Phones, Together

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• The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Civilization, Tin, Path

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1904). "El Filisteo"

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• You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.

  Josephine Tey

  Tails, Denial, Pretending

  Josephine Tey (1998). “The Franchise Affair”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• He's just jealous. You know what they say. Empty tin cans make the most noise, and he's an empty tin can. This game is between the Bears and the Eagles, not Ditka and Ryan. We all know who would win that one. Ditka, hands down.

  Mike Ditka

  Jealous, Winning, Eagles

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• To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Tails, News, Publicity

  April 01, 1935 letter. "The Letters of T.E. Lawrence". Book edited by Malcolm Brown, 1938.

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• I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold.

  Charlie Sheen

  Thinking, Gold, Lasts

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• Why does a salmon rise? Why does a small boy cross the street just to kick a tin can?

  Lee Wulff

  Boys, Fishing, Salmon

  Lee Wulff (1958). “The Atlantic Salmon”

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• My grandma used to plant tomato seedlings in tin cans from tomato sauce & puree & crushed tomatoes she got from the Italian restaurant by her house, but she always soaked the labels off first. I don't want them to be anxious about the future, she said. It's not healthy.

  Brian Andreas

  Grandma, Italian, House

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• Pues aquí estoy, sentado en una lata, muy por encima del mundo. El planeta Tierra es azul, y no hay nada que pueda hacer... Aunque estoy a más de cien mil millas, me siento muy quieto - y creo que mi nave espacial sabe qué camino tomar. Dile a mi mujer que la quiero mucho.

  David Bowie

  Travel, Thinking, Past

  Song: Space Oddity

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• I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work.

  Jack Kerouac

  Country, Home, Fire

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.118, Penguin

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• La primera comida fue una lección objetiva de mucha variedad. Mi padre preparó varios tipos de comida, lista para comer, sin cocinar, en pequeñas latas de conserva que tenían impresiones por todas partes.

  Mary Antin

  Father, Cooking, Meals

  Mary Antin (2013). "La tierra prometida", p.127, Courier Corporation.

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• Hasta que cayó el primer golpe, nadie estaba convencido de que la Penn Station fuera realmente demolida, ni de que New York permitiera este monumental acto de vandalismo contra uno de los mayores y más bellos hitos de su época de elegancia romana. Cualquier ciudad obtiene lo que admira, lo que paga y, en última instancia, lo que merece. Incluso cuando teníamos la Penn Station, no podíamos permitirnos mantenerla limpia. Queremos y merecemos una arquitectura de hojalata en una cultura de hojalata. Y probablemente seremos juzgados no por los monumentos que construyamos, sino por los que hayamos destruido.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  New York, Golpe, Ciudades

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• A summer breeze can be very refreshing; but if we try to put it in a tin can so we can have it entirely to ourselves, the breeze will die. Our beloved is the same. He is like a breeze, a cloud, a flower. If you imprison him in a tin can, he will die. Yet many people do just that. They rob their loved one of his liberty, until he can no longer be himself. They live to satisfy themselves and use their loved one to help them fulfill that. That is not loving; it is destroying.

  Nhat Hanh

  Amor, Verano, Flor

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• Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise. ... The cunningest hunger is hunted in turn, and what he leaves of his kill is meat for some other. That is the economy of nature, but with it all there is not sufficient account taken of the works of man. There is no scavenger that eats tin cans, and no wild thing leaves a like disfigurement on the forest floor.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Naturaleza, Tomado, Hombres

  Mary Hunter Austin (2006). “Essential Mary Austin: A Selection of Mary Austin's Best Writing”, Heyday Books

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• Una flor es una cadena de margaritas, una graduación, una tarjeta de San Valentín; una flor es Nochevieja y una orquídea en el pelo; una flor es un solo geranio que florece en una lata en una oscura escalera de incendios de la ciudad; un acre de rosas en el Jardín Botánico; ¡y el primer azafrán dorado de la primavera! ... una flor es un nacimiento, una boda, una partida de esta vida.

  Jean Hersey

  New Year, Primavera, San Valentín

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• I drove to Oxford with my van full of petrol and tin cans, as I didn't know there were service stations on the motorway. I pulled up on the hard shoulder and got my cans out. Then I filled up and set off again. That's how naive I was - so much not a cosmopolitan girl.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Girl, Oxford, Filled Up

  Source: www.newstatesman.com

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• There is cruelty in divorce. There is cruelty in forced or unfortunate marriage. We will continue to cry at weddings because we know how bittersweet, how fragile is the truth. We will always need legal divorce just as an emergency escape hatch is crucial in every submarine. No sense, however, in denying that after every divorce someone will be running like a cat, tin cans tied to its tail: spooked and slowed down.

  Anne Roiphe

  Running, Cat, Divorce

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• Under the ground seep the toxins of the population that lives above. If you have to, you will eat roots and earthworms. It is always night. Candles burn in lanterns made from tin cans. When it is nighttime up above, you can crawl out, but only for a little while. You feel ashamed of your matted hair, your torn clothes, the dirt on your face. Who would want to speak to you? They are all shiny and pretty. They have parents and house with gardens. What do you have? The earth. Whole handfuls of it. The lizard people with their slit eyes and scaly skin. Your loneliness. Your longing.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Loneliness, Eye, Night

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• Cienciología, ¿qué te parece? Te aferras a las latas y luego este tipo te hace un montón de preguntas, y si pagas suficiente dinero consigues unirte a la raza superior. ¿Qué tal eso para una religión?

  Frank Zappa

  Race, Guy, Atheism

  Concert address to audience at the Rockpile, Toronto, May 1969.

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• Cuando un ser humano tiene en sus manos un objeto que hace mucho ruido, que tiene piezas móviles, que gira rápidamente o que tiene un botón que puede apretar (que atornilla o clava algo), se convierte en un dios en su propia cabeza. Puede hacer cualquier cosa: atravesar paredes y unir edificios para formar poderosos imperios, construir ciudades flotantes y latas voladoras, pero no puede hacerse la cama.

  Craig Stone

  Muro, Potente, Conmovedor

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• Problem is, you can’t accept that his relationship had a real short shelf life. You’re like a dog at the dump, baby – you’re just lickin’ at the empty tin can, trying to get more nutrition out of it. And if you’re not careful, that can’s gonna get stuck on your snout forever and make your life miserable. So drop it.” “But I love him.” “So love him.” “But I miss him.” “So miss him. Send him some love and light every time you think about him, then drop it.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Dog, Baby, Real

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.158, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Recuerdo cuando mi padre me dio esa pistola. Me dijo que nunca apuntara a nada de la casa y que prefería que disparara a las latas del patio trasero. Pero me dijo que, tarde o temprano, la tentación de perseguir pájaros sería demasiado fuerte, y que podía disparar a todos los arrendajos azules que quisiera, si les daba; pero que recordara que era pecado matar a un ruiseñor.

  Harper Lee

  Gun, Blue, Daddy

  "Personaje de ficción: Atticus Finch". "Matar a un ruiseñor", www.imdb.com. 1962.

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