Crumbs Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Never settle for the crumbs of life.

  Og Mandino

  Never Settle, Settling

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

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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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• Writing a story I am just trying to find some little interesting thing to start out with: something small, even trivial. Preferably something that doesn't have a lot of thematic or political baggage - a little crumb that is interesting.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Interesting, Political

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• I lose patience with long stories. I get people who go, "Crumb, do some long stories, do a graphic novel." Novel-schmovel.

  Robert Crumb

  Long, People, Stories

  Interview with Steve Bell, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2005.

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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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• When you create something you leave little crumbs of stuff that you've experienced or music that you've listened to.

  Panda Bear

  Littles, Stuff

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I shall love my kind of love anyway, doggedly, for I must certainly do the best I can with my own nature and if my nature is to love too well or from afar or to be grateful for crumbs...well, so be it.

  Carol Emshwiller

  Grateful, Afar, Kind

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• The only ones who ever come here from your lands are the minstrels, and the lovers, and the mad. And you don't look like much of a minstrel, and you're— pardon me for saying so lad, but it's true— ordinary as cheese crumbs. So it's love if you ask me.

  Neil Gaiman

  Land, Mad, Ordinary

  Neil Gaiman (2007). “Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie”, Vertigo

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• Certainly the Old Testament does not teach us that there is another life, and upon that question even the New is obscure and vague. The hunger of the heart finds only a few small and scattered crumbs. There is nothing definite, solid, and satisfying. United with the idea of immortality we find the absurdity of the resurrection. A prophecy that depends for its fulfillment upon an impossibility, cannot satisfy the brain or heart.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Heart, Ideas, Brain

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). “Miscellany”

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• This is a book about Heaven. I know it now. It floats among us like a cloud and is the realest thing we know and the least to be captured, the least to be possessed by anybody for himself. It is like a grain of mustard seed, which you cannot see among the crumbs of earth where it lies. It is like the reflection of the trees on the water.

  Wendell Berry

  Lying, Book, Reflection

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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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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• For desert, maybe we can split a couple of crumbs.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Couple, Desert, Splits

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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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• 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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• I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs floating in it, and eavesdropped on a pair of Shetland pony breeders. Despondency makes one hanker after lives one never led. Why have you given your life to books, TC? Dull, dull, dull! The memoirs are bad enough, but all that ruddy fiction! Hero goes on a journey, stranger comes to town, somebody wants something, they get it or they don't, will is pitted against will. "Admire me, for I am a metaphor.

  David Mitchell

  Book, Hero, Journey

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.169, Random House

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• I leaned across the table towards the crumb-thrower. "Do that again," I said, loud enough to be heard over the opera singer, Dolly, my mother, and the smell of the breadsticks, "and I will sell your firstborn child to the devil.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mother, Children, Smell

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.114, Scholastic Inc.

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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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• 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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