Sugar Quotes - Page 15

• Before the bud swells, before the grass springs, before the plough is started, comes the sugar harvest. It is sequel of the bitter frost; a sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter.

  John Burroughs

  Goodbye, Running, Sweet

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.91, Syracuse University Press

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• My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.

  Diane Abbott

  Cutting, Owners, Backgrounds

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• A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Funny, Morning, Cutting

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “The Poetical Works of”

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• I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

  George Saunders

  Birthday, Drama, Rain

  "George Saunders's Wild Ride". Interview with Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. December 12, 2010.

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• Seven Guidelines For a Healthy Diet
  1. Substitute low-fat foods for high-fat foods
  2. Cut down on meat-eat low on the food chain
  3. Avoid salty and sugary foods
  4. Cut down on sugar
  5. Emphasize whole grains
  6. Beware of alcohol
  7. Emphasize the Healthy Five:
  Raw unsalted nuts and sesame seeds
  Sprouted seeds such as soybeans
  Fresh raw wheat bran and wheat germ
  Yogurt and kefir
  Fresh fruits and vegetables

  Jane Fonda

  Loss, Cutting, Vegetables

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• I liked the idea of all of humanity fitting inside a sugar cube because more than 99.9% of matter is space.

  Alan Davies

  Ideas, Space, Humanity

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• I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things - in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished.

  Jean Dujardin

  Play, Hot, Able

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• These changes-the more rapid pulse, the deeper breathing, the increase of sugar in the blood, the secretion from the adrenal glands-were very diverse and seemed unrelated. Then, one wakeful night, after a considerable collection of these changes had been disclosed, the idea flashed through my mind that they could be nicely integrated if conceived as bodily preparations for supreme effort in flight or in fighting. Further investigation added to the collection and confirmed the general scheme suggested by the hunch.

  Walter Bradford Cannon

  Fighting, Science, Night

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• Someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear, you almost had your hooks in me, didn't you dear?

  Elton John

  Rejection, Hook, Tonight

  Song: Someone Saved My Life Tonight

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• There are times when you cannot even control the sugar level in your body. Remember that when you put sugar in your metabolism, you are upsetting your metabolism in a very direct way. X amount of sugar is understandable, but the amount of sugar you put in, only God can save you. And whenever you put x amount of sugar, you must follow the law of depression. When you get that kind of depression, you lose a lot of friends. Therefore, it is very fair to channel your energy. One of the best ways to channel the energy is to do the pranayama.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Healing, Law, Upset

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• I was taught to fighter like Sugar Ray Leonard and Muhammad Ali when I was growing up.

  Nonito Donaire

  Growing Up, Motivation, Rays

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• As a rule, I do not approve of messing around with coffee. No sugar, no milk, no chocolate, hazelnuts, cinnamon, no nothing.... Just drink it black, the way God does

  Klay Thompson

  Coffee, Chocolate, Black

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• My working poor parents told me that I could do better. They taught me that I was as good as anybody else. And it never occurred to them to tell me that I could just rest comfortably and wait for good old Uncle Sugar to feed me, lead me and then bleed me.

  Mike Huckabee

  Uncles, Waiting, Parent

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• You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FØRTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.

  Bill Joy

  Program, Prove, Poke

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• When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Language, Programming

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.46, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• And I don't like people who eat powdered doughnuts. I don't car how careful you are, they're just plain messy. I can't believe they taste good enough to justify getting that sugar all over everything, especially me.

  Erin McKean

  Believe, People, Car

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• Our Garrick 's a salad; for in him we see Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree!

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Oil, Agreement, Salad

  'Retaliation' (1774) l. 11.

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• Intimacy is the principal source of the sugars which this life is sweetened!

  Tom Robbins

  Life Is, Intimacy, Still Life With Woodpecker

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• We should increase our development of alternative fuels, taking advantage of renewable resources, like using corn and sugar to produce ethanol or soybeans to produce biodiesel.

  Bobby Jindal

  Alternatives, Development, Fuel

  "America’S 25 Issues to Fix and Make the United States Great, Again!". Book by Peter D. Fleming, January 15, 2010.

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• You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever.

  Sam Donaldson

  Sweet, Water, Waiting

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• Complex carbohydrates are always best, except, again, after a workout where you could take simple (sugar) carbohydrates to get an insulin spike. But at other times doing this is not very beneficial because insulin is a storage hormone and it's going to shunt everything into the muscle.

  Dorian Yates

  Workout, Simple, Carbohydrates

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• The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy; yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy.

  Charles Lamb

  Glasses, Imagination, Quality

  Charles Lamb (1828). “Elia: essays which have appeared under that signature in the London magazine”, p.195

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• If only a small fraction of what is already known about the effects of sugar were to be revealed in relation to any other material used as a food additive, that material would promptly be banned.

  John Yudkin

  Used, Fractions, Relation

  John Yudkin (1972). “Sweet and dangerous: the new facts about the sugar you eat as a cause of heart disease, diabetes, and other killers”

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• Professor Ian McDonald of Guy's hospital in London...has found that, in young men, sugar raises the level of cholesterol in the blood, and especially...tri-glycerides.

  John Yudkin

  Dark, Men, Mcdonalds

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• The hospital that feeds you refined sugar, white bread, canned soup, bouillon cubes, and frozen vegetables should be closed by the health department as a menace to the public health.

  David Reuben

  Dark, Vegetables, White

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