Good Riddance Quotes:

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

- Rodman Philbrick

source: Rodman Philbrick (2015). “Freak the Mighty”, p.45, Usborne Publishing Ltd

topic: Good Riddance, Rubbish, Motto, Riddance

When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance.

- Ian MacKaye

topic: People, Giving, Incentives, Good Riddance, Riddance

People who think that they are being 'exploited' should ask themselves whether they would be missed if they left, or whether people would say: 'Good riddance?'

- Thomas Sowell

source: "Random Thoughts". www.jewishworldreview.com. April 29, 2002.

topic: Thinking, People, Would Be, Good Riddance, Riddance

Those times are over and gone, and good riddance to them, too. We were hopelessly high-spirited. Now we're the tick-waisted generation, dragging along our children behind us and carrying our parents on our backs. And we're in charge, while the figures who used to command our respect are wasting away.

- Gregory Maguire

topic: Children, Parent, Generations, Good Riddance, Riddance

The old system where every child was locked away and set into nonstop, daily cut throat competition with every other child for silly prizes called grades is broken beyond repair. If it could be fixed it could have been fixed by now. Good riddance.

- John Taylor Gatto

topic: Children, Silly, Learning, Good Riddance, Riddance

The world of nominal, cultural Christianity that took the American dream and added Jesus to it in order to say, 'you can have everything you ever wanted and Heaven too,' is soon to be gone. Good riddance.

- Russell D. Moore

topic: Dream, Jesus, Order, Good Riddance, Riddance

All 'isms' run out in the end, and good riddance to most of them. Patriotism for example. [...] If in the interest of making sure we don't blow ourselves off the map once and for all, we end up relinquishing a measure of national sovereignty to some international body, so much the worse for national sovereignty. There is only one Sovereignty that matters ultimately, and it is of another sort altogether.

- Frederick Buechner

topic: Running, Blow, Example, Good Riddance, Relinquishing

If the Scottish want to break away, I shall stand on Hadrian's Wall with a teary handkerchief, and say: 'Good riddance to the lot of you, and take your stupid bagpipes with you.'

- Jeremy Clarkson

topic: Wall, Stupid, Hadrian, Good Riddance, Riddance

Metrosexuality is dead. And good riddance to it.

- David Zinczenko

topic: Riddance, Good Riddance

I like to do every operation the same way on each fly. In the course of tying a batch of flies, I might get an idea on how to do something differently, but try to save it to try out later rather than break my comfortable rhythm. I don't worry about forgetting it. In my experience good ideas stay with you, while bad ones go back to where they came from, and good riddance.

- John Gierach

topic: Lakes, Sea, Fishing, Good Riddance, Riddance