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  • My grandmother lived in a universe filled with life. It was impossible for her to conceive of any creature - even the smallest insect, let alone a human being - as insignificant. In every leaf, flower, animal, and star she saw an expression of a compassionate universe, whose laws were not competition and survival of the fittest but cooperation, artistry and thrift. . . .

  • We do need a 'new economy,' but one that is founded on thrift and care, on saving and conserving, not on excess and waste. An economy based on waste is inherently and hopelessly violent, and war is its inevitable by-product. We need a peaceable economy.

    Nature   War   Simplicity  
    Wendell Berry (2001). “In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World”
  • It was part of a financial situation. I could only afford records in thrift stores. Then you could find wonderful things, but now everything is a collectible. I like the recycling idea --using the stuff that people don't want anymore, and make new music out of it. There was an element of looking back and listening to your parents' records and doing something with that stuff. Sort of acknowledging the past while rejecting it at the same time.

    Past   Ideas   People  
  • [My mother] worked at thrift stores and she didn't have a high school education. She sacrificed everything she had for me and my brothers. I never went without. She showed me that she could put food on the table, buy us Jordans, we had the best clothes and she worked two-three odd jobs.

    Mother   Brother   Jobs  
    Source: www.ebony.com
  • The teachings of Christianity - from vicarious redemption to the love of enemies, no thought for the morrow need be taken, that no thrift or care or family or society or solidarity is necessary - these are immoral teachings that have done and continue to inflict untold moral and physical harm on our species. And until we outgrow this nonsense, we have no chance of emancipating ourselves.

    Teaching   Taken   Enemy  
  • Me and Bianca [Stewart] would go to thrift stores like the Salvation Army. We'd pick up dope stuff no one ever heard of. But we'd put it together in ways that would work and be different.

    Army   Dope   Together  
    Source: wwd.com
  • Frugality and economy are virtues without which no household can prosper. Whatever the income, waste of all kinds should be most sternly repressed ... Economy and frugality must never, however, be allowed to degenerate into meanness.

  • I used to go to Saks, I would go to Bergdorf, I would go to Barneys, I would go to thrift stores in SoHo.

    Soho   Used   Stores  
  • A penny saved is a penny to squander.

    Pennies   Thrift   Saved  
    Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Best Of Ambrose Bierce: The Damned Thing + An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge + The Devil's Dictionary + Chickamauga (4 Classics in 1 Book)”, p.210, e-artnow
  • I shop at thrift stores a lot. I have a lot of silver pitchers and I put my flowers in those. I collect antiques, so there are a lot of old rocking chairs... My friends call my home the vortex because nobody wants to leave.

    Flower   Home   Want  
  • If hard work, integrity, thrift, and perseverance have caused you to succeed, then you don't owe anyone an apology for winning.

  • I shop at thrift shops probably five times a week.

    Week   Shops   Thrift  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Eighteen months ago, when first I stood before you I called attention, as earnestly and seriously as I knew how, to what looked to me to be the dangers that were ahead, and I urged you at that time to practice the old virtues of thrift, of honesty, of truthfulness, of industry, and so on through the list of those I named. All that I said then I say again.

  • Ever since I was a kid, I've been into clothes, but not really labels- that's kind of only been in the last year or so. It's something I've always cared about. I used to just constantly thrift and make stuff and cut stuff up and borrow my dad's stuff and borrow my little brother's stuff and all that jazz. ... It's just, if something is cool, then it's cool.

    Fashion   Brother   Dad  
  • People who never had enough thrift and forethought to buy and pay for property in the first place seldom have enough to keep property up after they have gained it in some other way.

    People   Pay   Way  
    Thomas Nixon Carver (1926). “The Present Economic Revolution in the United States”
  • When I was very little, I probably wanted to be more normal. I probably wanted the Laura Ashley bedroom, and instead I got thrift-store everything.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • When I was growing up skateboarding, a bunch of friends and I went to this thrift store and as we were leaving I jumped up and passed gas in my friend's face. I turned around and it wasn't my friend, it was this nice old lady who was just walking out of the store. That was probably one of the more awkward apologies I've had to make in my life.

    "Interview: Mark Hoppus on Blink-182's New Album, 'California'". Coup De Main Interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. June 27, 2016.
  • I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I know I'll wear a ton, and insane pieces that I'm sure most people would consider gross. But I find them inspiring. Our van is currently stocked with some of my random findings from this tour. Maybe I'll call my aesthetic 'van fashion.

    Fashion   People   Insane  
  • When you can take something that is a reject at the thrift store sitting on the bottom of a pile of junk and make it work, make it look interesting, that's real style to me.

  • Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.

    Exercise   Class   Needs  
    Quoted in Hesketh Pearson, Oscar Wilde, His Life and Wit (1946)
  • I was born in Las Vegas and my babysitter was a female Elvis Presley impersonator. My first memory is being in her arms and she was fully dressed up as Elvis. She was an avid thrift-shopper so I started going to thrift shops when I was very young. You could put something together for no money at all.

    "Jenny Lewis made the move from child actor into music for the right reasons". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, www.chicagotribune.com. August 30, 2016.
  • It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.

    Use   Waste   Ingredients  
    James Beard (1949). “The fireside cook book: a complete guide to fine cooking for beginner and expert, containing 1217 recipes and over 400 color pictures”
  • And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

    "Ten Cannots". Book by William J. H. Boetcker, 1916.
  • A garden is a grand teacher... above all it teaches entire trust.

    Trust   Teacher   Garden  
  • The idea that the profits of capital are really the rewards of a just society for the foresight and thrift of those who sacrificed the immediate pleasures of spending in order that society might have productive capital, had a certain validity in the early days of capitalism, when productive enterprise was frequently initiated through capital saved out of modest incomes.

    Order   Ideas   Income  
    Reinhold Niebuhr (2013). “Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics”, p.125, Westminster John Knox Press
  • A sense of thrift is essential to success in business. The businessman must discipline himself to practice economy whenever possible, in his personal life as well as his business affairs.

  • The opposite of consumption isn't thrift. It's generosity.

    Raj Patel (2009). “The Value Of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy”, p.29, Granta
  • the New Englander landed on a stony, barren tract, and a large share of his strength during two centuries has gone to force a living out of it. Hence he has come to regard economy - a necessary unpleasant quality at best - as the chief of virtues. He has cultivated habits which verge on closeness in dealing with food, and with the expression of feeling, and even - his enemies think - with feeling itself.

  • Thrift is that habit of character that prompts one to work for what he gets, to earn what is paid him; to invest a part of his earnings; to spend wisely and well; to save, but not hoard.

    Art   Work   Character  
  • Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence.

    Sir Philip Sidney, James Hain Friswell (1867). “The Countess of Pembrokes' Arcadia ... With Notes and Introductory Essay by Hain Friswell, Etc”, p.14
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