Urban Sanitation Quotes

There are those who collect the refuse of the public streets, but in order to be received into the band it is necessary to have been born one of the Hereditary Confederacy of Superfluity Removers and Abandoned Oddment Gatherers.

[Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.

I had a paper route when I was a kid. I was supposed to go to 2,000 houses. Or two dumpsters.

We're told cars cause pollution. A hundred years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do you want? Would you rather die of cancer at eighty or typhoid fever at nine?

Where are the Magistracy, the Gentry, the Nobility of the land? Have they no concern for the honour of their nation? How long shall the capital city of Scotland, yea, and the chief street of it, stink worse than a common sewer? Will no lover of his country, or of decency and common sense, find a remedy for this?

I don't like littering and I think it leads to terrorist activities.

If people of India can reach Mars with minimal expenditure, why can they not keep their streets and colonies clean.

Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.

The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from the city treasury.