“In a population of hundreds of millions, such a small number of people is a mere drop in the bucket… but enough drops can make any bucket overflow”

Source: UnDivided

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "In a population of hundreds of millions, such a small number of people is a mere drop in the bucket… but enough drops c…" by Neal Shusterman?

Neal Shusterman122

American novelist 1962

Related quotes

“Every day the bucket a-go a well, one day the bottom a-go drop out.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

I Shot The Sheriff, from the album Burnin (1973)
Song lyrics

“From reveries so airy, from the toil
Of dropping buckets into empty wells,
And growing old in drawing nothing up.”

William Cowper The Task

Source: The Task (1785), Book III, The Garden, Line 188.

“The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket,
The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well.”

Samuel Woodworth The Old Oaken Bucket

The Old Oaken Bucket (1817)

“A drop of ink may make a million think.”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

“Every object and being in the universe is
a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty,
a drop of the Tigris that cannot be contained
by any skin.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet

"The Gift of Water" Ch. 18 : The Three Fish, p. 200
The Essential Rumi (1995)
Context: Every object and being in the universe is
a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty,
a drop of the Tigris that cannot be contained
by any skin. Every jarful spills and makes the earth
more shining, as though covered in satin.

“But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling, like dew, upon a thought produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think.”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

“A Horse, a Bucket and a Spoon.”

Terry Jones (1942–2020) Welsh comedian, screenwriter, actor, film director and author

Graham Chapman A Liar's Autobiography (London: Eyre Methuen, 1980) p. 152.
Jones' suggested title for the show that was eventually named Monty Python's Flying Circus.