Top 12 Tin Cans Quotes - Quoted Daily

We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.

We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.

Ethel Waters

Mom, Tin Cans, Kitchen

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.

T. E. Lawrence

Tin Cans, Tails, News

April 01, 1935 letter. "The Letters of T.E. Lawrence". Book edited by Malcolm Brown, 1938.

Why does a salmon rise? Why does a small boy cross the street just to kick a tin can?

Lee Wulff

Boys, Fishing, Tin Cans

Lee Wulff (1958). “The Atlantic Salmon”

Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion ?

Frank Zappa

Race, Tin Cans, Guy

Concert address to audience at the Rockpile, Toronto, May 1969.

My grandma used to plant tomato seedlings in tin cans from tomato sauce & puree & crushed tomatoes she got from the Italian restaurant by her house, but she always soaked the labels off first. I don't want them to be anxious about the future, she said. It's not healthy.

Brian Andreas

Grandma, Italian, Tin Cans

For here Am I sitting in a tin can, Far above the world. Planet Earth is blue, And there's nothing I can do.

David Bowie

Blue, Tin Cans, Sitting

"Song: 'Space Oddity'". 1969.

The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.

Mary Antin

Father, Tin Cans, Cooking

Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.127, Courier Corporation

I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold.

Charlie Sheen

Thinking, Tin Cans, Gold

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

Elbert Hubbard

Tin Cans, Civilization, Tin

Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1904). “The Philistine”

You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.

Josephine Tey

Tin Cans, Tails, Denial

Josephine Tey (1998). “The Franchise Affair”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the house; and that he'd rather I'd shoot at tin cans in the backyard. But he said that sooner or later he supposed the temptation to go after birds would be too much, and that I could shoot all the blue jays I wanted - if I could hit 'em; but to remember it was a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Harper Lee

Gun, Blue, Tin Cans

"Fictional character: Atticus Finch". "To Kill a Mockingbird", www.imdb.com. 1962.