Quotes about Waste

This is a valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the form of houses and chimneys and riding smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

Shopping: The fine art of acquiring things you don't need with money you don't have.

No scrap of paper bigger than my smallest punch shall be thrown away.

[The prodigal son] wasted his substance with riotous living.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own dispositions will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove

luxury   generally prevails in prosperity, and wastes the blessings of God

The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. In many parts of the planet, the elderly lament that once beautiful landscapes are now covered with rubbish.

But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart.

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

Like all good citizens, the elderly and people with disabilities want to eradicate waste and fraud from government, but helping people with special needs meet their basic needs doesn't fit this description.