Milk Quotes - Page 28

• It ain't that you get religion. Religion gets you and then milks you dry. Won't let you drink a little whiskey. Won't let you make no fat-assed girls grin and giggle. Won't let you do a damn thing except work for what you'll get in the hearafter. I live in the here and now.

  Dorothy Allison

  Girl, Dry, Littles

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• Erratum. In my article on the Price of Milk, 'Horses' should have read 'Cows' throughout.

  J. B. Morton

  Horse, Should Have, Cows

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• We tried it again and it didn't work out. Sour milk is always sour milk. When something goes bad it stays bad.You don't put sour milk in the refrigerator one day,and take it out the next and expect it to taste sweet.

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Sweet, Sour Milk, Work Out

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2004). “Thieves' Paradise”, p.171, Penguin

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• I bought an organic rice milk. Frozen.....I'm not going to make something I don't know how to make, I don't have a recipe for.

  Art Smith

  Frozen, Recipes, Know How

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• Milk every moment for all the pleasure you can get from it.

  Esther Hicks

  Positive Thinking, Mindfulness, Moments

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• Midwestern people stick together. Gee willikers, they work hard. There's no glitz, no glamour. When I was a girl in Duluth, Minnesota, I used to get up early and milk cows, so I know what hard work is.

  Gena Lee Nolin

  Girl, Hard Work, Up Early

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• God’s Word is the living seed that brings new birth. It is the milk that nurtures the new life of a young Christian and the meat that builds the muscle of a mature believer.

  Colin S. Smith

  Christian, Meat, New Life

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• When faced with the inevitable, you always have a choice... As I learned during my liberal arts education, any symbol can have, in the imaginative context, two versions, a positive and a negative... If you spill your milk you're left with a glass which is either half empty or half full... You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see.

  Margaret Atwood

  Inspirational, Graduation, Art

  "Attitude". Margaret Atwood's commencement address at the University of Toronto, Canada, www.humanity.org. June 14, 1983.

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• Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.

  Andrew Schneider

  Life, Mind, Sometimes

  "'Northern Exposure' ('Three Doctors')". Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, September 20, 1993.

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• Mine is a most peaceable disposition. My wishes are: a humble cottage with a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, the freshest milk and butter, flowers before my window, and a few fine trees before my door; and if God wants to make my happiness complete, he will grant me the joy of seeing some six or seven of my enemies hanging from those trees. Before death I shall, moved in my heart, forgive them all the wrong they did me in their lifetime. One must, it is true, forgive one's enemies-- but not before they have been hanged.

  Heinrich Heine

  Flower, Heart, Humble

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• Aw, he's just you know...entrenched," Matt said. "Gotta adjust to the perspective and deal from there." Then he added, "Not that I'd want him as my dad...." Mike practically sprayed his milk. "Dude! Can you imagine?" Then Matt gave my dad a slap on the back and said, "No way. I'm sticking with my main man here." My mom grinned from across the kitchen and said, "Me too." I'd never seen my father cry. And he didn't exactly sit there bawling, but there were definitely tears welling up in his eyes.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Mom, Dad, Father

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.167, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting strawberry runners in the sun, a glass of cool sweet milk, and a shallow dish of blueberries bathed in cream. When one is so tired at the end of a day one must sleep, and at the next dawn there are more strawberry runners to set, and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more.

  Sylvia Plath

  Happiness, Sweet, Tired

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.3, Anchor

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• Because I’m a cat. A big one, the Panther of Rough Storms, in fact. But still a cat. If there’s a saucer of milk to spill, I’d rather spill it than let it lie. If my mistress grows absent-minded and leaves a ball of yarn about, I’ll bat it between my paws, and unravel it. Because it’s fun. Because it’s what cats do best.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Fun, Lying, Cat

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.110, Feiwel & Friends

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• She divorced her husband, y' know. I never knew him, it was before I met Jane. Apparently she came back from work one mornin' an' found her husband in bed with the milkman. With the milkman, honest to God. Well, apparently, from that day forward Jane was a feminist. An' I've noticed, she never takes milk in her tea.

  Willy Russell

  Husband, Feminist, Tea

  "Shirley Valentine". Book by Willy Russell, 1986.

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• And I knew in my bones that Emily Dickinson wouldn't have written even one poem if she'd had two howling babies, a husband bent on jamming another one into her, a house to run, a garden to tend, three cows to milk, twenty chickens to feed, and four hired hands to cook for. I knew then why they didn't marry. Emily and Jane and Louisa. I knew and it scared me. I also knew what being lonely was and I didn't want to be lonely my whole life. I didn't want to give up on my words. I didn't want to choose one over the other. Mark Twain didn't have to. Charles Dickens didn't.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Running, Baby, Lonely

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.164, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Trash can!” Pritkin cursed and grabbed one, just about the time everything I’d eaten that night paid a repeat visit. Whiskey, pizza, milk shake, beer-and a lone, half-dissolved gummy bear, which was a surprise, since I couldn’t actually recall having eaten any. Fun times.

  Karen Chance

  Fun, Beer, Night

  Karen Chance (2011). “Hunt the Moon: A Cassie Palmer Novel”, p.241, Penguin

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• Cats and ghosts both partook of the saucers of milk and that was okay. They consumed different parts of it: the cats its substance, the ghosts its essence, and none went to waste.

  Laini Taylor

  Cat, Essence, Different

  Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.42, Scholastic Inc.

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• I've married a man who owns nine cows," said Jinjur to Ozma, "and now I am happy and contented and willing to lead a quiet life and mind my own business." "Where is your husband?" asked Ozma. "He is in the house, nursing a black eye," replied Jinjur, calmly. "The foolish man would insist upon milking the red cow when I wanted him to milk the white one; but he will know better next time, I am sure.

  L. Frank Baum

  Husband, Eye, Nursing

  L. Frank Baum (2016). “Ozma of Oz: American Literature”, p.105, VM eBooks

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• Granny bit her lip. She was never quite certain about children, thinking of them-when she thought about them at all-as coming somewhere between animals and people. She understood babies. You put milk in one end and kept the other as clean as possible. Adults were even easier, because they did the feeding and cleaning themselves. But in between was a world of experience that she had never really inquired about. As far as she was aware, you just tried to stop them catching anything fatal and hoped that it would all turn out all right.

  Terry Pratchett

  Baby, Children, Thinking

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• When the young woman leans over the sky, about to water the flowers as well as the weeds, her white front splits open until her milk runs.

  Gunter Grass

  Running, Weed, Flower

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• On the delivery plate of the Nutri-Matic Drink Synthesizer was a small tray, on which say three bone china cups and saucers, a bone china jug of milk, a silver teapot full of the best tea Arthur had ever tasted and a small printed note saying "Wait.

  Douglas Adams

  Waiting, Tea, Jugs

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.25, Pan Macmillan

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• Then she took out a speculum the size of a milk shake machine. Even Michelle Duggar would have flinched at this thing, but I had never seen one before.

  Tina Fey

  Machines, Size, Shakes

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• Are you high? Why are you never wearing a shirt?" "I sleep naked," Cole said. He put both milk and sugar in my coffee. "As the day goes on, I put on more and more clothing. You should've come over an hour ago.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Coffee, Sleep, Naked

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.784, Scholastic Inc.

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• Shamus ordered half a cup of house brew. Then he proceeded to fill the cup up the rest of the way with milk and sugar. Lots of sugar. “Sure you got enough milk in your sugar?” I asked as we strolled out of the shop and headed south. He flipped me off. “You drink your coffee your way, and I’ll drink my coffee the right way.

  Devon Monk

  Coffee, House, Half

  Devon Monk (2009). “Magic in the Shadows: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.219, Penguin

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• A small girl became increasingly paralysed by her parents' frequently violent rows. Sometimes she would spend hours standing completely still in the toilet, simply because that was where she happened to be when the fight began. Finally, in moments of calm, she would take bottles of milk from the fridge or doorstep and leave them in places where she may later become trapped. Her parents were unable to understand why they found bottles of sour milk in every room in the house.

  Sarah Kane

  Girl, Fighting, Sour Milk

  Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.185, A&C Black

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