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Quotes About Overcrowded

London is good for two things — excellent Scotch and leaving.I miss them both, especially as I often partake of one while doing the other. I find the company stifling, the streets foul smelling and overcrowded, the houses bland and without architectural merit, and the people banal and filled with their own consequence. No matter how often I leave London, I cannot wait to leave it again. My home is in my explorations. Those always welcome me.
~ Karen Hawkins
They let dangerous men out of prison now, yes sir, I'm afraid it's so. Cause they're over crowded and it was only his fifth offense.
~ Hank Williams, Jr.
Nobody ever goes to that store to shop because it's too crowded.
~ Sol Luckman, Beginner's Luke
Many gardens are hijacked by their plants and end up looking like a room overstuffed with furniture.
~ Monty Don
The prison up in Rahway is maybe my least favorite place on Earth, with the possible exception of Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia. Actually, the two places remind me of each other. For starters, they're both enormous, often overcrowded, and serve mediocre food. Rahway houses murderers and thieves, the lowest of the low, worthy of society's scorn and revenge. The stadium in Philadelphia houses the Philadelphia Eagles. Six of one, half a dozen of the other.
~ David Rosenfelt
Nobody goes to that restaurant anymore because it's too crowded.
~ Yogi Berra
You begin to see that all of these things are connected: The kind of cuts that mean less environmental protection are also the kind of cuts that mean less musical education for the schools and that also mean more overcrowded schools.
~ Robert Hass
Society is not filled with evil souls. But it is filled with people who are mobile, fractured, overworked, overweight, overcrowded, and overtired. That's a potent combination, particularly for people with poor coping skills and volatile tempers. And we're seeing the proof of that in the increasing number of impulsive, angry acts, such as mass murders and road rage." Rainie sighed. She rubbed her temples.
~ Lisa Gardner
With sky-high profits and ridiculously low start-up costs, the field had soon grown overcrowded.
~ Ron Chernow
Misty frozen rain was whirling around as I left the building and walked back to the shuttle stop. The shuttle was somewhat less overcrowded than usual. I didn't get a seat but I had enough room to take out my Walkman, and occasionally I could see between people's heads out the window, and this made me cheerful. It was weird what was enough to make you feel good or bad, even though your basic life circumstances were the same.
~ Elif Batuman
They were talking about a certain hangout and Johnny said, "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."
~ John McNulty
Owing to the high infant mortality of the times, estimated at one or two in three, the investment of love in a young child may have been so unrewarding that by some ruse of nature, as when overcrowded rodents in captivity will not breed, it was suppressed.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.
~ Stephen Hawking
In New York, you have thousands of buildings that have never been renovated, that have horrible designs, that are really cramped and terrible.
~ Miguel McKelvey
The place was very like the world: overcrowded with lust and crime and unhappy love, it stank to heaven; but he realized that after all it was possible to find peace there, when you knew for certain that the time was short.
~ Graham Greene
Prison conditions in some parts of the world can be very poor, overcrowded and, in some cases, dangerous and sentences can be much tougher than in the U.K.
~ David Lidington
But I guess that's just a reflection of how the educational system today, being so overcrowded and impersonal, makes it so hard for adolescents to break through the preconceived notions of one another, and get to know the real person underneath the label they're given, be it Princess, Brainiac, Drama Geek, Jock, Cheerleader, or Guy Who Hates It When They Put Corn in the Chili.
~ Meg Cabot
We are already overcrowded. There's no more room, and we must shut the borders.
~ Pim Fortuyn
There were eleven kids, and we all shared a bathroom. It was enough to drive us all insane.
~ Alice Ripley
Forests in Colorado and the West that once had 50-100 trees per acre are now dangerously overcrowded with 500-1,000 trees per acre. Our forests are overgrown and poorly managed, making them more susceptible to large wildfires, disease, and bark beetle attacks.
~ Lauren Boebert
This is the problem with over-crowded inner-city schools there aren't enough parts for everyone in the nativity story.
~ Karl Pilkington
Many classrooms are overcrowded, and splitting the class into smaller groups gives the children more one on one attention.
~ Tamra Davis
When you hear that China is overcrowded, that's an understatement. I was shocked at the number of people. Even in the rural areas. I was also shocked at the poverty and at the living conditions.
~ Rosemary Mahoney
Marvel's got a crowded universe, and there are already so many characters hogging the spotlight that it's hard to break through that. First off, whatever character you're creating, odds are, there's already someone similar in one way or another.
~ Kurt Busiek