Bucket Quotes

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.
Jim Rohn

Laugh, Kids, Beginning

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
Carl Sandburg

Future, Live, Moving

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
George Orwell

Inside, Stick, Rattling

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
William Butler Yeats

Best, Down, Rest

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
Tom Stoppard

Give, Advice, Grain

Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.
Chuck Jones

Sunshine, Human, Try

Washington is gripped by crab-in-the-bucket syndrome. And there's no cure in sight. Put a single crab in an uncovered bucket, and it will find a way to climb up and out on its own. Put a dozen crabs in a bucket, and 11 will fight with all their might to pull down the striver who attempts escape.
Michelle Malkin

Fight, Single, Down

I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company.
Tori Amos

Love, Before, Dance

I drink a bucket of white tea in the morning. I read about this tea of the Emperor of China, which is supposedly the tea of eternal youth. It's called Silver Needle. It's unbelievably expensive, but I get it on the Web.
Antonio Banderas

Morning, Youth, Read

My husband and I both have our bucket lists. Running a marathon was on mine.
Alison Sweeney

Husband, Both, Mine

I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.
Lou Reed

Act, Kicked, Otherwise

Entertainer of the Year, to me, there's never been any question that that's one on my bucket list that I want. I'm not going to sit here and lie to you. If there's one that I ever could get - I would trade all the rest of them in for that one.
Jason Aldean

Lie, Here, Year

Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.
Maggie Smith

Point, Listen, Kick

I always want to learn but I am sure on my dying day I will feel like I left something in the bucket.
Tim McGraw

Learn, Sure, Dying

My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.
Lynda Barry

Romantic, Goal, Write

I've figured out what to do so far, but it's always the next thing you come to where the man with the bucket of ice cold water is waiting - whoosh! in your face. That's why you work with directors who know what to tell you to do.
Judi Dench

Work, Waiting, Why

I used to soak my mitts in a bucket of water for about two days. Then I'd put a couple of baseballs in the pocket and wrap it up with a rubber band. Today you don't have to do that, because catchers' mitts are more like first baseman's gloves.
Bob Uecker

Today, Two, Put

It's just an ice bucket with a bottle in it. The two flute glasses are little tray. I got to shut the curtains. I'm in my boxer shorts and shirt. I'm going to take a bath and go to bed. But I want to shut the blinds so it's really dark in the room.
Danny DeVito

I don't know if this is too weird to say, but this is completely surreal for me. Bizarre. The cover of 'Teen Vogue' has been on my bucket list forever.
Lily Collins

Teen, Weird, Forever

However, the thought hit me that this was a pretty pathetic way to kick the bucket - being accidentally poisoned during a photo shoot, of all things - and I started weeping at the idiocy of it all.
Lara St. John

Thought, Pretty, Started

Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.
Percy Ross

Ocean, Lake, Pond

Something I didn't even know was on my bucket list has been achieved. I have cooked Thanksgiving dinner with Martha Stewart. I vow to follow the gospel of her teachings and do my very best in the remarkably less glamorous kitchen of my own home... without the luxury of magically appearing prep bowls filled by a staff of sous chefs.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Best, Home, Her

It's on my bucket list, to get in a real fight.
Naya Rivera

Fight, Real, List

I think on a bucket list for a performer is definitely doing a stage show, whether it's in Vegas or on Broadway or whatever.
Lacey Schwimmer

Whatever, Show, Whether

One day, I got so disgusted that I sat down and wrote a list called 'Justin's list of things to do before he kicks the bucket.' I wrote it for myself and shortened it to 'Justin's Bucket List.' It was there on the wall, not as a story idea but as a motivational tool for myself, which actually ended up working pretty well.
Justin Zackham

Down, Pretty, Before

I'm asking you to talk with your friends, neighbors, and relatives - even the ones you've never talked to about reproductive rights. That's how you can throw your number in the bucket, and stand with a president who has stood with us. Conversation by conversation, vote by vote, we will re-elect President Barack Obama!
Nancy Keenan

Friends, Talk, Vote

Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are.
Sam Walter Foss

Seek, Afar, Drop

You can lead a team in a lot of different ways. It can be talking to somebody who is down or, during the course of a game, looking to penetrate and then dropping the ball off to someone else for an easy bucket.
Bill Cartwright

Someone, Game, Down

Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you would be perfectly comfortable.
Bobby Bragan

Standing, Ice, Foot

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