Quotation Explorer - 'Eaten'

Were such things here as we do speak about? Or have we eaten on the insane root that takes the reason prisoner? - William Shakespeare
A patient dog will have no bone to eat because other dogs have eaten - Ojo Michael E.
A slice of bread eaten is a million times more nourishing than a loaf of bread imagined. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Life is not meant to be lived on the sidelines or the edge of the pool. It is meant to be embraced, inhaled, and devoured. It is meant to be tasted, chewed and swallowed, savoring each and every experience as if it were the most delicious delicacy ever eaten. - Monica E. Tunnell
There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten. - Indira Gandhi
When I walk into my kitchen today, I am not alone. Whether we know it or not, none of us is. We bring fathers and mothers and kitchen tables, and every meal we have ever eaten. Food is never just food. It's also a way of getting at something else: who we are, who we have been, and who we want to be. - Molly Wizenberg
If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam. - Ambrose Bierce
Only when the last tree has been cut down Only when the last river has been poisoned Only when the last fish has been caught Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.
There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort. - W. Somerset Maugham
Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. - Jewish Proverb
We never regret having eaten too little. - Thomas Jefferson
For breakfast to be called ‘in bed’ instead of ‘on top of a bed,’ the house in which it is about to be eaten has to have at least two rooms (excluding the kitchen); (at least) three, if it has a bathroom. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I can tell by the look on Hagin's face that he had eaten some of my food. It is amazing those boys aren't fat. - R.A. Smith
Probably went swimming and got eaten by a pineapple. - Terry Pratchett
Abignades or abegnadesA term used in te department of the Landes for the intestines of a goose cooked in its blood. Abegnades are found almost solely in the chalosse region, where they are eaten on bread fried in goose fat, with slices of lemon. - Escoffier, Auguste
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. - Aesop
He hath eaten me out of house and home. - William Shakespeare
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. - Doug Larson
An indoor man eats nothing, except that which is prepared and served by his mother with lots of insults, an outdoor man eats that which he buys, prepares, served and eaten with lots of respect. - Michael Bassey Johnson
America is so rich and fat, because it has eaten the tragedy of millions of immigrants. - Michael Gold
But, deep in her heart she knew more than what the words read or heard seemed to say. She knew that every letter in every word in every war bulletin was, somewhere, first written in blood of men, of human beings, who had once smiled and sung songs, eaten, drunk, slept and loved. - Kate Seredy
There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed. - W. Somerset Maugham
A venturesome minority will always be eager to get off on their own... let them take risks, for Godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches- that is the right and privilege of any free American.
But suicides have a special language.Like carpenters they want to know which tools.They never ask why build.Twice I have so simply declared myself,have possessed the enemy, eaten the enemy,have taken on his craft, his magic. - Anne Sexton
The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge. - Bible
Lucretia Jane Price. A sweet name for a sweet lady that smelled of roses, spoke with a sweet drawl, and was surely made of all the sweet country things a man who hadn't eaten a good meal in a long time could imagine -- molasses, sweet peas, sweet corn, freshly churned butter. - Linda Leigh Hargrove
I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow. - Voltaire
When I was a kid, I used think that my mother has some kind of magic in her hands because the same food eaten by her hands, tasted different.And now when I am grown up.. I am sure.. she has some magic in her hands.. - Himmilicious
It's a long slow process for a human to die. We kill a cow, and it is dead as soon as the meat is eaten, but a man's life dies as a commotion in a still pool dies, in little waves, spreading and growing back toward stillness. - John Steinbeck
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dreams must be ground into bread, and the bread eaten. - Marty Rubin
In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined. - Thomas Szasz
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. - Antisthenes Pinto
But if you're gonna dine with them cannibalsSooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . . - Nick Cave
TURKEY, n. A large bird whose flesh when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude. Incidentally, it is pretty good eating. - Ambrose Bierce
I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle - so all is peace.
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