Tin Cans Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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 ?

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

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.

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

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

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

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.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.