Scrap Metal Quotes:

An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Opportunity, Persons, Areas, Enterprising, Decrepit

That's where I live, a junkyard in a neighborhood of junkyards. We have three tractors from the 1940s and '50s, several old pickup trucks, and a pile of scrap metal.

- Bonnie Jo Campbell

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Three, Truck, Tractors, Pickup Trucks, Junkyard

Science has salvaged scrap metal and even found vitamins and valuable oils in refuse, but old people are extravagantly wasted.

- Anzia Yezierska

source: Anzia Yezierska (1985). “Hungry hearts and other stories”, Persea Books

topic: Oil, People, Age, Scrap, Scrap Metal

Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others - the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison.

- Eduardo Galeano

topic: Victory, Gold, Poison, Scrap Metal

Grover wore his fake feet and his pants to pass as human. He wore a green rasta-style cap, because when it rained his curly hair flattened and you could just see the tips of his horns. His bright orange backpack was full of scrap metal and apples to snack on. In his pocket was a set of reed pipes his daddy goat had carved for him, even though he only knew two songs: Mozart's Piano Concerto no. 12 and Hilary Duff's "So Yesterday," both of which sounded pretty bad on reed pipes.

- Rick Riordan

source: Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

topic: Song, Orange, Curly Hair, Grover, Rasta

This junkyard is an environmental nightmare, strewn with tree stumps, old tires, derelict vehicles, scrap metal and other waste. This owner may be failing to properly dispose of vehicle fluids and other contaminating chemical-laden trash, possibly imperiling groundwater and wells. He is junking the law as well as the environment.

- Richard Blumenthal

topic: Law, Tree, Environmental, Stumps, Scrap

My first official consulting job, therefore, was for a scrap metal dealer (he resented the term "junk dealer") in East Edmonton named Benny Sugarman.

- Preston Manning

topic: Jobs, Junk, East, Edmonton, Scrap Metal