Milk Quotes - Page 11

• Hotel tea is when you have to mix together a plastic envelope containing too much sugar, a small plastic pot of something which is not milk but has curdled anyway, and a thin brown packet seemingly containing the ashes of a cremated mole.

  Frank Muir

  Tea, Together, Sugar

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• What good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth of a son if he becomes neither learned nor a pure devotee of the Lord?

  Chanakya

  Son, Giving, Cows

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• Look, if Givenchy is going to lend you a dress, I'm not going to turn it down. I would wear that dress to just go out and buy a pint of milk if they would lend it to me.

  Florence Welch

  Dresses, Looks, Givenchy

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• Do not waste your time on light, weak, milk­toast ministries and books

  Richard Baxter

  Book, Light, Ministry

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• You can tell that hold is effective because his face is red and the rest of his body is the color of a bottle of 2% milk.

  CM Punk

  Color, Wwe, Bottles

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• 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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• Just as our bodies need proper food to live and develop, our souls need love to blossom. The strength and nourishment that love can give our souls is even more potent than the nourishing power of a mother's milk for a baby.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Love, Mother, Baby

  Swami Ramakrishnananda Puri, Amma, Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (2014). “The Timeless Path”, p.15, M A Center

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• Why can't a state that launches cosmonauts into space provide enough eggs and milk for its city children during the winter months?

  Harrison Salisbury

  Children, Winter, Cities

  Harrison Evans Salisbury (1965). “Russia”, Scribner

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• Tradition, thou art for suckling children, Thou art the enlivening milk for babes, But no meat for men is in thee.

  Stephen Crane

  Art, Children, Men

  Stephen Crane (1963). “Whilomville stories. The black riders, and other lines”

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• I don't eat celery. I eat raw milk, cheeses.

  Carol Alt

  Cheese, Celery

  "Transcript: Carol Alt Talks About 'Eating in the Raw'". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. January 11, 2005.

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• Gravy is the simplest, tastiest, most memory-laden dish I know how to make: a little flour, salt and pepper, crispy bits of whatever meat anchored the meal, a couple of cups of water or milk and slow stirring to break up lumps.

  Dorothy Allison

  Couple, Memories, Water

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• The way to my heart is through Belgian milk chocolate.

  Emma Donoghue

  Heart, Chocolate, Way

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• It was as if we were at the heart of a maze. We were overwhelmed by the enormity of the tasks ahead. Mary had given us a bottle of milk and a spoonful of loose tea, and so, unable to decide what to do, we did what all Irish men and women do: we had tea. Suddenly the sun appeared and not for the first or last time we felt it uplifting us and changing everything. It seemed like a holiday.

  Niall Williams

  Uplifting, Heart, Holiday

  Niall Williams, Christine Breen (1989). “O Come Ye Back to Ireland: Our First Year in County Clare”, Soho PressInc

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• Invoke the Mercy of God and as milk returns not to the udder go not back to your wrongdoing." "Have compassion on yourself and on others and Infinite Compassion will be given to you." "In the name of Allah, All-Merciful, All Compassionate, bestow on me a Mercy that shall put me beyond the need of mercy from any other than Thee.

  Muhammad

  Compassion, Mercy Of God, Names

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• It's still possible to savor the remarkable foods that millennia of human ingenuity have teased from milk. A sip of milk itself or a scoop of ice cream can be a Proustian draft of youth's innocence and energy and possibility, while a morsel of fine cheese is a rich meditation on maturity, the fulfillment of possibility, the way of all flesh.

  Harold McGee

  Maturity, Ice Cream, Meditation

  Harold McGee (2007). “On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Full moons, skunk weed all up in the room;
  You got the munchies, baby? Ice cold milk and Lorna Doones.

  Ghostface Killah

  Weed, Baby, Rap

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• The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk.

  H. L. Mencken

  Mother, Science, Effort

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.248, Knopf

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• All women are troublemakers who take the money their husbands need desperately for a new and better speaker, and selfishly squander it on things like shoes for the children, homogenized milk, or perhaps A SECOND DRESS!

  Stan Freberg

  Children, Husband, Shoes

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• but the real enemy is the cold. It steals up on you quieter than Will, and at first you shiver and your teeth chatter and you stamp your feet and dream of mulled wine and nice hot fires. It burns, it does. Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don't have the strength to fight it. It's easier just to sit down ot go to sleep. They say you don't feel any pain toward the end. First you go weak and drowsy, and everything starts to fade, and then it's like sinking into a sea of warm milk. Peaceful, like.

  George R. R. Martin

  Dream, Pain, Real

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.16, Bantam

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• I'm pleased to see that the cab is cluttered with cough drop wrappers and empty milk bottles and bits of mud-smeared newspapers made brittle by age. Neatness makes me feel like I have to be on my best behavior. Clutter is my natural habitat.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Age, Bottles, Habitat

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• The Internet also makes it extraordinarily difficult for me to focus. One small break to look up exactly how almond milk is made, and four hours later I'm reading about the Donner Party and texting all my friends: DID YOU GUYS KNOW ABOUT THE DONNER PARTY AND HOW MESSED UP THAT WAS? TEXT ME BACK SO WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT!

  Mindy Kaling

  Party, Reading, Focus

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.143, Crown/Archetype

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• When she slept, she looked peaceful, beautiful. Not Lena's kind of beautiful, something different. She looked content - like a sunny day, a cold glass of milk, an unopened book before you cracked the binding.

  Kami Garcia

  Beautiful, Book, Glasses

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• Movement turns dead dogs into maggots and daisies, and flour butter sugar an egg and a tablespoon of milk into Abernethy biscuits, and spermatozoa and ovaries into fishy little plants growing babyward if we take no care to stop them.

  Alasdair Gray

  Dog, Plants Growing, Eggs

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• You take [mammary] cells, you put them in a dish, and within three days ... they don't make milk. They completely forget.

  Mina Bissell

  Motivation, Inspiration, Cells

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• We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren't good. Drinking's not good. Some would say milk's not good.

  Bob Dole

  Drinking, Kids, Smoking

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