Drains Quotes

231 Drains quotes by 200 unique authors

When mothers talk about the depression of the empty nest, they're not mourning the passing of all those wet towels on the floor, or the… — Erma Bombeck
Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips, May give a shock of… — Thomas Noon Talfourd
The birds have vanished into the sky, and now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain… — Li Bai
It reminded him of his Uncle Seamus, the notorious and poetic drunk, who would sit down at the breakfast table the morning after a bender,… — Molly O'Neill
We'll have to deal with the networks. One of the ways to do that is to drain the swamp they live in. And that means… — Donald Rumsfeld
I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to the Abbey; through which, in… — Tobias Smollett
Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us. — Joan Halifax
In Australiaâ€™s biggest cities, public transport is generally slow, expensive, not especially reliable and still hideous drain on the public purse. Part of the problem… — Tony Abbott
There's that 15 quid we put on One Direction to win down the drain. — Alex Turner
The chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven's croak, is one of… — G. M. Trevelyan
Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A… — Donald E. Westlake
I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio… — Ted Strickland
In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange. — Brennan Manning
Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them. — Brennan Manning
Worry drains the mind of its power and, sooner or later, it injures the soul — Robin Sharma
The Spoonsize Boys steal the dollhouse toys while the cat by the fire is curled. Then away they floats in their eggshell boats, down the… — Tim Powers
Much of American wealth is an illusion which is being secretly gnawed away and much of it will be completely wiped out in the near… — Howard Ruff
Real family values have gone down the drain in modern families. — Wes Borland
Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
My father left me with the feeling that I had to live for two people, and that if I did it well enough, somehow I… — William J. Clinton

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