Top 25 Sewer Quotes

State and federal studies indicate that thousands of water and sewer systems may be too old to function properly.

Look at the commercial and industrial development that is going on along the 101. A lot of the infrastructure – the sewer lines and drainage that make development possible – was put in during the freeway construction.

Sewer rats are really gross.

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

When I say infrastructure it’s not just roads and bridges and subways – it’s also housing. It’s also schools and fire departments and water departments and sewer departments. That’s all infrastructure and it’s all important. Little by little this country is crumbling and everyone knows it.

There are 10,000 local governments in the state of New York. Ten thousand! Town, village, lighting district, water district, sewer district, a special district to count the other districts in case you missed a district.

I am a good sewer. My mother taught me how to sew.

I’ve always made my own clothes since I was a little girl. I was a terrible sewer, but I was always cutting and customising.

We can’t leave everything to the free market. In fact, climate change is, I would argue, the greatest single free-market failure. This is what happens when you don’t regulate corporations and you allow them to treat the atmosphere as an open sewer.

We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet. In my view we have nothing to show for it. We haven’t invested in our roads, our bridges, our waste-water systems, our sewer systems. We haven’t even maintained the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us.

For three months, when I was 23 years old, I worked as a clerk at Wandsworth Sewer.

I started out printing silk screen t-shirts. I sold ink pens. I worked construction. I worked at a gas station. I pumped gas. I was a mechanic for a little bit. I went into sewers, down into sewer lines. I had a lot of somewhat unpleasant gigs for a time there.

So, the point I’m making is, we are not going to cut spending in Washington if we think it’s the job of every congressman and senator is to pave local parking lots and build local sewer plants. These parochial interests are getting in the way of the national interests.

Sure, ‘Les Miserables’ can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.

I’ve stood around bogs wearing half a million dollars’ worth of jewelry, up to my knees in the rot, thinking how much more or less the place smelled like a sewer than it did the day before.

As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts.

I worked three summers putting in sewer pipe and guardrail on the road in Ohio.

Trump might have a mouth like an open sewer, but at least he says something.

The sea is the universal sewer.

I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.

Life is like a sewer: what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

Thanks to ‘It,’ you’re going to see the studios take a lot more chances on a very specific vision. An R-rated horror film about children being eaten by a monster that lives in a sewer is not normally something that a studio would throw their weight behind. But we’ve seen the success of it, which props everyone up.

In 2004, Lawrence Wright wrote in the ‘New Yorker’ about ‘The Kingdom of Silence,’ where a massive sewer project in Jeddah was really a series of manhole covers across the city with no actual pipes underneath. I, as the editor of a major paper at the time, can say that we all knew – and we never reported on it.

Tanushree Dutta is the real pig and not me. She is the sewer and not me. Just look at her face, she has become like a fat ugly buffalo.

And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.