Crumbs Quotes - Page 4

• Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Tragedy, Masters, Hades

  "The Birth of Tragedy". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche (p. 54), 1872.

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• Julia [Roberts]. She's got two kids and animals, and I think she's a night nibbler. There'd be crumbs everywhere.

  Richard Gere

  Kids, Animal, Night

  "Changing Gere". Interview with Andrew Goldamn, www.elle.com. April 24, 2007.

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• Vanity may be likened to the smooth-skinned and velvet-footed mouse, nibbling about forever in expectation of a crumb; while self-esteem is too apt to take the likeness of the huge butcher's dog, who carries off your steaks, and growls at you as be goes.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Dog, Self Esteem, Vanity

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.17

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• Never settle for the crumbs of life.

  Og Mandino

  Never Settle, Settling

  Og Mandino (1991). “Og Mandino”, Outlet

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• Im sick of the foodies who need every morsel that goes into their mouth to be a Picasso painting, a Giacometti sculpture, a Proust novel, evoking the world with each crumb.

  Jessi Klein

  Sick, Needs, Sculpture

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• We move through the day like two hands of a clock: sometimes we overlap for a moment, then come apart again, carrying on alone. Everyday exactly the same: the tea, the burnt toast, the crumbs, the silence.

  Nicole Krauss

  Moving, Two, Hands

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House”, p.205, Penguin UK

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• Day by day we are given not what we want but what we need. Sometimes it is a feast and sometimes...swept crumbs, but by faith we believe it is enough.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Believe, Needs, Want

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• The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dream, Stupid, Dumb

  "Fragment on Slavery" ca. 1 July 1854

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• Little I ask
  And that little is not granted."
  There are few crumbs
  In this world any more.

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

  World, Charity, Littles

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• There are many reasons for keeping a diary: to make a note of facts that one considers important; to open one's heart, to give vent to one's feelings, to make confessions; from the instinct of economy which sometimes encourages a writer to make good use of even the smallest crumbs of his life, so that he may have one more book to publish; or again from vanity and self- satisfaction.

  Alberto Moravia

  Book, Heart, Vanity

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• God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me.

  Emily Dickinson

  Justice, Bird

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.110, First Avenue Editions

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• If I shouldn't be alive
  When the Robins come,
  Give the one in Red Cravat,
  A Memorial crumb.

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Giving, Memorial

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.82, First Avenue Editions

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• Who needs bread crumbs," Dan replied, "when you have GPS?

  Peter Lerangis

  Gps, Needs, Bread

  Peter Lerangis (2012). “The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers Book 3: The Dead of Night”, p.94, Scholastic Inc.

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• Those were the people who made her something, and without them she was different. She'd held on to them and to that old self tenaciously, though. She clung to it, celebrated it, worshipped it even, instead of constructing a new grown-up life for herself. For years she'd been eating the cold crumbs left over from a great feast, living on them as though they could last her forever.

  Ann Brashares

  Self, Years, People

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.119, Random House

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• Rachel, we've been over this. This is what I do," he said, crumbs of whiten cheese falling from the knife. "Find a way for your lofty, unrealistic ideals to deal with it.

  Kim Harrison

  Fall, Knives, Way

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• A spider lives inside my head Who weaves a strange and wondrous web Of silken threads and silver strings To catch all sorts of flying things, Like crumbs of thoughts and bits of smiles And specks of dried-up tears, And dust of dreams that catch and cling For years and years and years...

  Shel Silverstein

  Dream, Dust, Years

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• I can’t hope to convey the full effect of the embraces and avowals, but I can perhaps offer a crumb of counsel. If there is anybody known to you who might benefit from a letter or a visit, do not on any account postpone the writing or the making of it. The difference made will almost certainly be more than you have calculated

  Christopher Hitchens

  Writing, Differences, Benefits

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.11, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Hyacinth,” Lady Bridgerton said in a vaguely disapproving voice, “do try to speak in complete sentences.” Hyacinth looked at her mother with a surprised expression. “Biscuits. Are. Good.” She cocked her head to the side. “Noun. Verb. Adjective.” “Hyacinth.” “Noun. Verb. Adjective.” Colin said, wiping a crumb from his grinning face. “Sentence. Is. Correct.

  Julia Quinn

  Mother, Expression, Voice

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• Crumb,” he said. “What?” A slight grin appeared on his face and then he reached out, without the napkin, and before I knew what he was doing, he smoothed his thumb over my bottom lip. Every single muscle in my body locked up and became painfully tense. My eyes widened and the air caught in my throat. The touch was slight, barely anything, but I felt it in several parts of my body. “Got it.” His grin spread.

  J. Lynn

  Eye, Air, Lips

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• Whoa, that's the kind of little sister I can dig!" said Edison. "Yes, we're all alike," I said. "We cover for you, we lie for you, we take the heat for you. We clean up your messes and mollify our parents for you. We never fail to come across with undying adoration, whether or not you deserve it, and we can't take our lives as seriously as yours. We snuffle up the crumbs from your table on the rare occasions you notice we're alive.

  Lionel Shriver

  Lying, Parent, Little Sister

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• (Soft petals, yes, but not so barren quite,
  Mingled with these, smooth bean and wrinkled pea;)
  And go along with you ere you lose sight
  Of what you came for and become like me,
  
  Slave to a springtime passion for the earth.
  How love burns through the Putting in the Seed
  On through the watching for that early birth
  When, just as the soil tarnishes with weed,
  
  The sturdy seedling with arched body comes
  Shouldering its way and shedding the earth crumbs.

  Robert Frost

  Weed, Spring, Passion

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• I know the Virginia players are smart because you need a 1500 SAT to get in. I have to drop bread crumbs to get our players to and from class

  George Raveling

  Basketball, Smart, Silly

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• There is a quiet humor in Yiddish and a gratitude for every day of life, every crumb of success, each encounter of love... In a figurative way, Yiddish is the wise and humble language of us all, the idiom of a frightened and hopeful humanity.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Wise, Gratitude, Humble

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

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• When our cup runs over, we let others drink the drops that fall, but not a drop from within the rim, and call it charity; when the crumbs are swept from our table, we think it generous to let the dogs eat them; as if that were charity which permits others to have what we cannot keep.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Running, Dog, Fall

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.63

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• When I need bread, I grab the toaster and stick niggas for they crumbs.

  Akinyele

  Rap, Hip Hop, Toasters

  Song: The Robbery Song, 1996

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