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Quotes About Litter

Birth our night into dayAnd bathe it clean, So that beloved things can glowTogether in a litter of light.
~ Scott Hastie
I loved performing; I was always trying to impress my siblings by being a clown. I think that came from being the runt of the litter.
~ Rose Byrne
But if the wolves are too numerous, or food is scarce, the number of pups in a litter may fall to as few as one or two.
~ Farley Mowat
I read once that the furthest distance the average American will walk without getting into a car is six hundred feet, and I fear the modern British have become much the same, except that on the way back to the car the British will drop some litter and get a tattoo.
~ Bill Bryson
A sign by the highway said DON'T LITTER, KEEP ALABAMA THE BEAUTIFUL. 'OK, I the will,' I replied cheerfully
~ Bill Bryson
Well . . ." Enoch's voice broke into his thoughts. "What do you think?" "I want Taylor to have the pick of the litter." "In the long run, it wouldn't be a bad idea for her to have a dog. Until things simmer down, I want to hire you to guard my sister." "No need. I'm going to marry her.
~ Cathy Marie Hake
He says it casually, dropping the suggestion like a piece of litter. I ponder it there, on the ground. Maybe it's worthless, maybe not. I won't know unless I pick it up.
~ Gayle Forman
Personally, I think any more than two or three kids is not a family, it's a litter.
~ Tracey Ullman
We'll need to make a litter to carry him," said Osha. "No use," said Luwin. "I'm dying, woman." "You can't," said Rickon angrily. "No you can't." Beside him, Shaggydog bared his teeth and growled. The maester smiled. "Hush now, child, I'm much older than you. I can . . . die as I please.
~ George R.R. Martin
Prince Doran had closed the draperies of his litter as soon as the Spear Tower came in sight, yet still the small folk shouted out to him as the litter passed. The Sand Snakes have stirred them to a boil, the captain thought uneasily.
~ George R.R. Martin
Such verbal litter is to language as Muzak is to music. As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
~ George F. Will, 1977
the ambiguous conversation with the unseen serving-wench, the bags of hot-grease-scented food hurtling in through the window, condiments in packets, attempting to eat while lurching down a highway, volumes of messy litter that seemed to fill all the empty space in the mobe, a smell that outstayed its welcome.
~ Neal Stephenson
Mr. Eben warned Harve that any puppies that had the sheep killer's blood in them were bound to be no 'count by the law of heritage. Bonnie's litter was on the way when the father was killed and Harve believed he could cure the pups of any bad habits. The father had had a lot of courage, a strong heart and a good nose. Maybe the pups would be all right.
~ James H. Street
There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd never do it.
~ Matthew McConaughey
The first of these houses appeared to be occupied. The next two were vacant. Dingy curtains, soot-grey against their snowy window-sills, hung over the next. A litter of paper and refuse-abandoned by the last long gust of wind that must have come whistling round the nearer angle of the house - lay under the broken flight of steps up to a mid-Victorian porch. The small snow clinging to the bricks and to the worn and weathered cement of the wall only added to its gaunt lifelessness. (Bad Company
~ Walter de La Mare
And even the litter that was thrown out the window of Olaf's car—the clearest sign that evil people have driven by—was picked up off the road long before my work began.
~ Lemony Snicket
The house seemed to have all the comforts of little Children, dirt and litter.
~ Jane Austen
Cleaning cat litter is an unpleasant daily chore for me, but the DuraScoop makes it much less unpleasant.
~ Mark Frauenfelder
I wonder whether the foregoing pages of my writing-paper have been torn to pieces and thrown into the waste-paper basket? You wouldn't litter the carpet. No. I may be torn in pieces, but I do you justice for all that.
~ Wilkie Collins
Ughhh, that stuff tastes like vomit mixed with cat litter!
~ Chris Columbus
What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We were empty nesters, our last-born child having departed for Duke. Meredith decided we needed a dog to fill the vacuum. She heard about a litter in Colorado sired by Chopper, the legendary avalanche dog at the top of Aspen Mountain.
~ Tom Brokaw
Later studies estimated that at least 6.4 Mt of plastic litter enters the oceans every year; that some 8 million pieces are discarded every day; that the floating plastic debris averages more than 13 000 pieces per km2 of ocean surface; and that some 60% of all marine litter stems from shoreline activities
~ Vaclav Smil
I feel a loosened Band-Aid release itself from my ankle and fall off, but I don't turn around to pick it up. I don't care about litter because I am immortal.
~ Vendela Vida