Maple Quotes - Page 3

• The food that's never let me down in life is porridge, especially with milk and maple syrup, which is delicious. Paris isn't a porridge place, but I can buy it in London when I'm there and bring it back with me.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Paris, Syrup, London

  "Marianne Faithfull: 'My father belonged to a commune, and the food was always ghastly" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2011.

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• I was cutting and threading pipe in the tunnels to get water into the shower rooms for athletics. I was repairing old metal windows, fixing cement walls where rain was coming through, and drying out the maple gym floors in hopes of removing the warping.

  Tom Baker

  Wall, Rain, Cutting

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• I have a maple leaf tattoo over my heart, quite literally, and my two favorite things on Earth are being in Canada and making movies.

  Jay Baruchel

  Tattoo, Heart, Two

  Interview with Jasper Anson, www.askmen.com.

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• For hours she had lain in a kind of gentle torpor, not unlike that sweet lassitude which masters one in the hush of a midsummer noon, when the heat seems to have silenced the very birds and insects, and, lying sunk in the tasselled meadow grasses, one looks up through a level roofing of maple-leaves at the vast, shadowless, and unsuggestive blue.

  Edith Wharton

  Sweet, Lying, Blue

  Edith Wharton (2001). “Early Short Fiction”, p.50, Electric Book Company

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• I drink maple syrup. Then I'm hyper so I just run around like crazy and work it all off.

  Rachel McAdams

  Running, Crazy, Syrup

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• I always have a good quality extra virgin olive oil. A cheap quality oil will end up cheapening your dishes. And I love sweetening my dishes with maple syrup. It has a bit of a bitter kick at the end that works wonderfully in savory dishes.

  Nadia Giosia

  Sweet Love, Oil, Quality

  "World Chefs: No-nonsense food with a pinch of punk". Interview with Dorene Internicola, www.reuters.com. August 16, 2011.

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• The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry
  Of bugles going by.
  And my lonely spirit thrills
  To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills.

  Bliss Carman

  Lonely, Autumn, Asters

  Bliss Carman (1931). “Bliss Carman's Poems”, McClelland & Stewart

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• I sit where the leaves of the maple and the gnarled and knotted gum are circling and drifting around me.

  Alice Cary

  Gum, Drifting

  Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary (1850). “Poems of Alice and Phoebe Carey ...”, p.140

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• Oh! to be a child again. My only treasures, bits of shell and stone and glass. To love nothing but maple sugar. To fear nothing but a big dog. To go to sleep without dreading the morrow. To wake up with a shout. Not to have seen a dead face. Not to dread a living one. To be able to believe.

  Fanny Fern

  Dog, Children, Believe

  Fanny Fern (2015). “Ginger-Snaps”, p.110, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Freezing concentrates sugar (maple sugar), alcohol, and salt solutions as efficiently as heating distils water or alcohol from solutions. Open pans of maple sugar can have the surface ice removed regularly (each day) until a sugar concentrate remains. Salts in water, and alcohol in ferment liquors can be concentrated in the same way.

  Bill Mollison

  Ice, Water, Alcohol

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Summer, Spring, Wyoming

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• In the long dusks of summer we walked the suburban streets through scents of maple and cut grass, waiting for something to happen.

  Steven Millhauser

  Summer, Cutting, Long

  Steven Millhauser (2008). “Dangerous Laughter”, p.62, Vintage

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• I thought of my mother as Queen Christina, cool and sad, eyes trained on some distant horizon. That was where she belonged, in furs and palaces of rare treasures, fireplaces large enough to roast a reindeer, ships of Swedish maple.

  Janet Fitch

  Mother, Queens, Eye

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• I think maybe, if I could be a Canadian super hero, I'd have some kind of freezing power and some sort of maple syrup weapon. Could be a little sticky.

  Nathan Fillion

  Hero, Thinking, Maple Syrup

  "Nathan Fillion Dishes on Being Steve Trevor in Wonder Woman". Movieweb Interview, www.movieweb.com. January 28, 2009.

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• My first semester I had only nine students. Hoping they might view me as professional and well prepared, I arrived bearing name tags fashioned in the shape of maple leaves.

  David Sedaris

  Views, Names, Firsts

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives about October.

  Hal Borland

  Autumn, Sea, Purple

  Hal Borland (1965). “Countryman: A Summary of Belief”

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• Writing an informative yet compact thriller is a lot like making maple sugar candy. You have to tap hundreds of trees - boil vats and vats of raw sap - evaporate the water - and keep boiling until you've distilled a tiny nugget that encapsulates the essence.

  Dan Brown

  Writing, Essence, Water

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• Many of the artifacts of my house had become potential devices for my own destruction: the attic rafters (and an outside maple or two) a means to hang myself, the garage a place to inhale carbon monoxide, the bathtub a vessel to receive the flow from my opened arteries. The kitchen knives in their drawers had but one purpose for me.

  William Styron

  Mean, Knives, Two

  William Styron (2010). “Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of richest dyes, Pouring new glory on the autumn woods, And dipping in warm light the pillared clouds. Morn on the mountain, like a summer bird, Lifts up her purple wing, and in the vales The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer, Kisses the blushing leaf, and stirs up life Within the solemn woods of ash deep-crimsoned, And silver beech, and maple yellow-leaved, Where Autumn, like a faint old man, sits down By the wayside a-weary.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Summer, Sweet

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.70, Delphi Classics

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• My uncle, Mr. Stephen Maple, had been at the same time the most successful and the least respectable of our family, so that we hardly knew whether to take credit for his wealth or to feel ashamed of his position.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Uncles, Humorous, Successful

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.6226, Delphi Classics

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• This hill crossed with broken pines and maples lumpy with the burial mounds of uprooted hemlocks (hurricane of '38) out of their rotting hearts generations rise trying once more to become the forest just beyond them tall enough to be called trees in their youth like aspen a bouquet of young beech is gathered they still wear last summer's leaves the lightest brown almost translucent how their stubbornness has decorated the winter woods.

  Grace Paley

  Summer, Spring, Heart

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• My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag.

  Miranda Leek

  Play, Piano, Goal

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• A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?

  Ivan Turgenev

  Fall, Butterfly, Movement

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1961). “Fathers and sons”, Signet Classics

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• This fastest of all games [hockey] has become almost as much of a national svmbol as the maple leaf.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Hockey, Games, Leafs

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• ...a sad sort of vulnerability was wafting from her, making the night smell like maple syrup.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Night, Smell, Syrup

  Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.15, Bantam

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