Tin Quotes

We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.

I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold.

The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.

He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

I've had to do all kinds of jobs to pay the rent. I've even worked in a Cornish tin mine.

Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds.

The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.

After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather.

What was the name of that dog on 'Rin Tin Tin'?

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.

I see myself in the mold of Rin Tin Tin. It didn't go to his head either.

There's not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record.

The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.

Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated.