Gutters Quotes

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It's a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand. And you can be anyone you want: you can be as grandiose as you want or you can be as down in the gutter as you want. It's just sort of whatever emotional freeway you're on at the time.

God often goes to the gutter to find the recipient for His grace. He lifts him out, washes him and transforms him - making him into a child of God fit for His kingdom. That is God’s grace.

People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

The alleycats manipulate the blocks with gutter magic

The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were a boon and a path out of poverty.

I'm a moron because I don't want to lie in a gutter puking over myself... yeah right

Of course I'm going to say "I'm a thug" that's because I came from the GUTTER and I'm still HERE!

Every last souvenir of the love we had, the prizes & the debris of this relationship, like the glitter in the gutter when the parade has passed, all the everything & whatnot kicked to the curb.

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.

A modern vegetarian is also a teetotaler, yet there is no obvious connection between consuming vegetables and not consuming fermented vegetables. A drunkard, when lifted laboriously out of the gutter, might well be heard huskily to plead that he had fallen there through excessive devotion to a vegetable diet.

Free grace can go into the gutter, and bring up a jewel!

I have friends that are laying in the gutter right now that were rich people and they're no longer rich people because of what the banks did to them.

Well, there are all kinds of gutters. Life will supply you with gutters.

Did you ever notice all the items on a honey do list are dangerous. Clean gutters, put light in shower, patch roof. It's a honey die list.

I have a huge need for financial security; the emigrant in me has a fear of ending up homeless and in the gutter.

We dragged English guitar music out of the gutter.

[The] BBC was known as Auntie suggesting someone prudish and Victorian and that she still is on some days. On others she's a champagne-soaked floozie, her skirts in disarray, her mind in the gutter, and the mixture can be quite wonderful.

I don't believe in gutter politics. I don't believe in gutter journalism.

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

The spirit is often most free when the body is satiated with pleasure; indeed, sometimes the stars shine more brightly seen from the gutter than from the hilltop.

Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.

I have a recurring nightmare that I wake up in a gutter with nothing. I've had it all my life. That's why I work, I think.

Sex touches the heavens only when it simultaneously touches the gutter and the mud.

Altruism accrues little benefit to those lying cold in the gutter.

The distance between the limousine and the gutter is a short one.

He's earned a lifetime of peace and happiness, but some people never get what they deserve. That's why there are saints in gutters and sadists in palaces.

You have the American dream! The dream is to be born in a gutter and grow up, and then get all the money in the world and stick it in your ears and go THBBBBBT.

I didn't get this dressed up to watch you mess around in the gutter with a bunch of motorcycles." "They are pretty to look at," said Jace. "You have to admit that." "So am I," said Isabelle.

When a man understands who he is, who God is, who the devil is... then he can pick himself up out of the gutter; he can clean himself up and stand up like a man should before his God.

You gazed at the moon and fell in the gutter.

Homesickness for the gutter.

I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.

I need to know that wherever I end up, in the stars or in the gutter, you’re along for the ride.

I've never been in this part of Trenton before. I don't feel comfortable driving around buildings that haven't got gang slogans sprayed on them. Look at this place. No boarded-up windows. No garbage in the gutter. No brothers selling goods on the street. Don't know how people can live like this.

I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and punishments that were fair.

I look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand.

Have you dared to eat my son?" I laughed. Actually, it started out as more of a giggle that grew. Because my mind went straight to the gutter.

I'd go and get really drunk somewhere ... in the street. Pass out somewhere and sleep in the gutter.

Don't soil your pretty little shoes The gutter's deep and red Climb up climb up and ride along with me the tumbrel driver said But she never said a word never turned her head Don't soil your pretty little pants I only go one way Climb up climb up and ride along with me There's no gold coach today But she never said a word never turned her head

Stay out of the gutter in your conversation. Foul talk defiles the man who speaks it.