Salt Quotes - Page 7

• For lack of a few pinches of ordinary iodised table salt in the diet of a third world pregnant mother, a child can lose up to ten IQ (Intelligence Quotient) points.

  Sheryl WuDunn

  Mother, Children, Ordinary

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• President Obama had lunch with Republican leaders at the White House today and had to do without salt, pepper and butter. Not for dietary reasons. The Republicans refused to pass anything.

  Jay Leno

  Lunch, White, House

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• Take every birthday with a grain of salt. This works much better if the salt accompanies a large margarita

  Maxine

  Grain Of Salt, Margarita, Accompany

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• They were strange books. They spoke about mercury, salt, dragons, and kings, and he didn't understand any of it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Kings, Book, Dragons

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.

  Calamity Jane

  Summer, Spring, Lakes

  Calamity Jane (2013). “The Life And Adventures Of Calamity Jane: A Short Memoir”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Moving, Dark, Imagine

  Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.64, Macmillan

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• She looked up at him with a smile. The smile broke what was left of his resistance - shattered it. He had let the walls down when he'd thought she was gone, and there was no time to build them back up. Helplessly he pulled her against him. For a moment she clung to him tightly, warm and alive in his arms. Her hair brushed his cheek. The color had come back into the world; he could breathe again, and for that moment he breathed her in - she smelled of salt, blood, tears, and Tessa.

  Cassandra Clare

  Wall, Hair, Blood

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• A marine protozoan is an aqueous salty system in an aqueous salty medium, but a man is an aqueous salty system in a medium in which there is but little water and most of that poor in salts.

  John Zachary Young

  Marine, Science, Men

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• If we cry more tears we will ruin the land with salt; instead let's praise that which would distract us with despair. Make a song for death, a song for yellow teeth and bad breath

  Joy Harjo

  Song, Land, Yellow

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• Of course I have used dissonance in my time, but there has been too much dissonance. Bach used dissonance as good salt for his music. Others applied pepper, seasoned the dishes more and more highly, till all healthy appetites were sick and until the music was nothing but pepper.

  Sergei Prokofiev

  Sick, Healthy, Too Much

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• As president, Nixon imposed wage and price controls, created the Environmental Protection Agency, initiated race-based hiring schemes, signed SALT I with the Soviets and instituted rapprochement with the Red Chinese. All of this resulted in liberals ... despising him even more!

  Ann Coulter

  Agency, Race, Chinese

  "'Scratch-Off' Miers" by Ann Coulter, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 27, 2005.

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• Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the star-sown sky. The toil of all that be Helps not the primal fault; It rains into the sea And still the sea is salt.

  A. E. Housman

  Stars, Rain, Fall

  Alfred Edward Housman, “Stars”

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• My mother took us to services at the Episcopal church. Yet she always said that God was not just inside the four walls of a house of worship, but everywhere - in the rising sun over Camelback Mountain in Phoenix, a splash of water along the nearby Salt or Verde rivers, or clouds driving over the Estrella Mountains, south of downtown. I've always thought of God in those terms.

  Barry Goldwater

  Mother, Wall, Clouds

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• Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Spices, Shapes

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.577

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• There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

  Patrick Pearse

  Laughter, Sacrifice, Joy

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• Soon they were all sitting on the rocky ledge, which was still warm, watching the sun go down into the lake. It was the most beautiful evening, with the lake as blue as a cornflower and the sky flecked with rosy clouds. They held their hard-boiled eggs in one hand and a piece of bread and butter in the other, munching happily. There was a dish of salt for everyone to dip their eggs into. ‘I don’t know why, but the meals we have on picnics always taste so much nicer than the ones we have indoors,’ said George.

  Enid Blyton

  Beautiful, Lakes, Clouds

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• Lastly, tea--unless one is drinking it in the Russian style--should be drunk WITHOUT SUGAR. I know very well that I am in a minority here. But still, how can you call yourself a true tea-lover if you destroy the flavour of your tea by putting sugar in it? It would be equally reasonable to put in pepper or salt. Tea is meant to be bitter, just as beer is meant to be bitter. If you sweeten it, you are no longer tasting the tea, you are merely tasting the sugar; you could make a very similar drink by dissolving sugar in plain hot water.

  George Orwell

  Drinking, Beer, Drunk

  George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “Smothered under journalism: 1946”

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• For one week, all I could think about was drinking margaritas--well, that and running my tongue along Reyes's teeth--but I didn't have salt--or Reyes's teeth. I'd also lacked the energy to leave my apartment to get some--or the desire to stoop low enough to beg Reyes to let me lick his teeth after what he did--so I could only wish for a margarita. And dream of Reyes's teeth. I'd secretly hoped a margarita would magically appear in my hand, but that would mean I would have to put down the remote, and God knew that was not going to happen.

  Darynda Jones

  Running, Dream, Drinking

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.153, St. Martin's Press

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• ...We die, we turn, we are reborn as we deserve to be reborn, based on our doings in this world." Will looked down at his bitten nails. "I will probably be reborn as a slug that someone salts.

  Cassandra Clare

  Nails, Slugs, World

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• It’s funny how the good things are all tied up with the bad. Sometimes it’s hard to tell which is which. But either way, you end up taking your sugar with your salt and your kicks with your kisses.

  Kami Garcia

  Kissing, Sugar, Way

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• I don’t love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love You, Dark, Fire

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• The good and the bad, the sugar and the salt, the kicks and the kisses—what’s come before and what will come after, you and me—

  Kami Garcia

  Kissing, Sugar, Kicks

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2012). “Beautiful Redemption”, p.330, Penguin UK

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• Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play the Phoenix in an unending sequence of rise and fall? Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Carthage, Rome, the Empires of Charlemagne and the Turk: Ground to dust and plowed with salt. Spain, France, Britain, America—burned into the oblivion of the centuries. And again and again and again. Are we doomed to it, Lord, chained to the pendulum of our own mad clockwork, helpless to halt its swing? This time, it will swing us clean to oblivion.

  Walter M. Miller, Jr.

  Fall, Play, Phoenix

  Walter M. Miller Jr (2014). “A Canticle For Leibowitz”, p.146, Hachette UK

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• It formed into small drops on his weather beaten features, drops that rolled down his cheeks. Strangely, some of them tasted like salt.

  John Flanagan

  Weather, Beaten, Cheeks

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• Auri took it, and peered inside the small leather sack. “Why this is lovely, Kvothe. What lives in the salt?” Trace minerals, I thought. Chromium, bassal, malium, iodine . . . everything your body needs but probably can’t get from apples and bread and whatever you manage to scrounge up when I can’t find you. “The dreams of fish,” I said. “And sailor’s songs.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Dream, Song, Apples

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