Bulldozers Quotes

• The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.

  Philip Shabecoff

  Nature, Environmental, Bombs

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• My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn't gone to military school, maybe I wouldn't have decided to get with the program. Maybe I'd be running a bulldozer, rather than going on and doing something more.

  Sam Donaldson

  Mother, Running, Military

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• You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Growing Up, Humor

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

  Edward Abbey

  Giants, Fool, Institutions

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.18, RosettaBooks

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• They wrongly believe that good intentions move mountains. Bulldozers move mountains. But there are exceptions.

  Peter Drucker

  Believe, Moving, Mountain

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in the Next Society”, p.76, Routledge

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• Not that I was ever an asshole but I used to be much more of a bulldozer.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Used, Used To Be

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• You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, War, Body

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• I prayed very hard for this to happen and it happened. I don't even think about what I've achieved, I haven't focused on it and I wish I had, because I really want to enjoy it, and I don't know if I am enjoying it, because I am going through my life like a bulldozer. I still haven't marveled at it.

  Mariah Carey

  Thinking, Wish, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.

  Matt Taibbi

  Eggs, Environment, Groupthink

  Matt Taibbi (2008). “The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire”, p.19, Spiegel & Grau

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• ... four other pieces of equipment that most senior officers came to regard as among the most vital to our success in Africa and Europe were the bulldozer, the jeep, the 2--ton truck, and the C-47 airplane. Curiously, none of these is designed for combat.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Senior, Airplane, Europe

  DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER “Crusade in Europe”

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• My father builds homes. So I grew up around the idea that you can take a piece of land, and you can bulldozer it and build new homes on it. You can create something new.

  Harry West

  Father, Home, Land

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• We are all born bonded to nature; that's why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls.

  Bob Brown

  Wall, Flower, Forests

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• The problem ... is that we have run out of dinosaurs to form oil with. Scientists working for the Department of Energy have tried to form oil using other animals; they've piled thousands of tons of sand and Middle Eastern countries on top of cows, raccoons, haddock, laboratory rats, etc., but so far all they have managed to do is run up an enormous bulldozer-rental bill and anger a lot of Middle Eastern persons. None of the animals turned into oil, although most of the laboratory rats developed cancer.

  Dave Barry

  Running, Country, Cancer

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• The typical nature photograph shows a butterfly on a pretty flower. The conservation photograph shows the same thing, but with a bulldozer coming at it in the background.

  Joel Sartore

  Nature, Flower, Butterfly

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• At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, "thus far and no further." If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, "If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.

  Edward Abbey

  Regret, Home, Pride

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• They say that faith can move mountains, so can bulldozers, so can nuclear weapons. I'm not really sure if that's what faith is intended for. I guess if there is a mountain that has to be moved, and you've got nothing else to do it with, you could probably do it with faith.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Mountain, Nuclear

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• In technological development, in production of material goods and creature comforts, we've challenged the very gods, but psychologically, emotionally, we're scarcely more than chimpanzees with bulldozers, baboons with big bombs.

  Tom Robbins

  Technological Development, Comfort, Bombs

  "The Syntax of Sorcery: An Interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Reading student papers, blue books, etc., a form of torture ... a matter of rubbing an iron file over one's teeth, or holding urine in one's mouth, or having the racket of a bulldozer in one's ear for an hour or two on end.

  Newton Arvin

  Book, Reading, Blue

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• Don’t worry about being able to identify each of these plants (in your designs for clients). The world is full of botanists and horticulturists. All you have to do is design. You don’t have to be a botanist; you don’t have to be a bulldozer driver; you don’t have to be a fence builder; you don’t have to be an architect. What the designer has to do is look at the relationships.

  Bill Mollison

  Worry, Design, Looks

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• The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

  Edward Abbey

  Soul, Ruins, World

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• The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.

  Edward Abbey

  Saws, Common, Terrorism

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.53, RosettaBooks

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• I reckon that the Bailey Bridge and the bulldozer were the greatest advances in military engineering in the years between World War I and World War II.

  Christopher Vokes

  Military, War, Engineering

  "Vokes - My Story" by Chris Vokes, John Philip Maclean, (p. 56), 1985.

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• The urge to grow and develop, present in all forms of life, becomes perverted in the Bisy Backson's mind into a constant struggle to change everything (the Bulldozer Backson) and everyone (the Bigoted Backson) else but himself, and interfere with things he has no business interfering with, including practically every form of life on earth.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Struggle, Mind, Earth

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• The idea of the industrial fishing affects everyone. Those factory ships play this game of hit and run with the international fishing limits, and somebody said it's like hunting squirrels with a bulldozer. They pull everything in and they are only looking for certain types of fish and everything else dies and they just throw it back. It's like chumming.

  Robin Williams

  Running, Hunting, Squirrels

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• These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Beautiful, Running, Couple

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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