Feds Quotes - Page 4

• There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break. - Amir

  Khaled Hosseini

  People, Brotherhood, Amir

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• Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!

  Charles Lamb

  Thinking, Wife, Childhood

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life”, p.118

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• to feed, help, protect, comfort, console, support, nurse, or heal to be fed, helped, nursed, protected, comforted, consoled, supported, nursed, or healed to form mutually enjoyable, enduring, cooperating and reciprocating relationship with Other, with an equal to be forgiven to be loved to be free

  Sarah Kane

  Nurse, Support, Comfort

  Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.235, A&C Black

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• Please,' she said, 'You're so beautiful. You may eat me if you like. I'd rather be eaten by you than fed by anyone else.

  C. S. Lewis

  Beautiful, May, Narnia

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol V: The Horse and his Boy”, p.149, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• Criminals should be punished, not fed pastries.

  Daniel Handler

  Punishment, Criminals, Crime

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• I want someone who will adore me so much that they cannot even walk past me without touching me in some way. I want someone who will worship me, even when.. I'm sitting around in fluffy slippers with no makeup on and hair scraped back. I'm sick and tired of being on my own. Most of the time I'm fine. Some of the time I even quite enjoy it. But at this precise moment in time I'm fed up with it. I've had enough.

  Jane Green

  Tired, Past, Makeup

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• Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended to with vigilance, else it dies out.

  Libba Bray

  Life, Fire, Vigilance

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• . . . freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and responsible, not a slave or a well-fed cog in the machine . . . It is not enough that men are not slaves; if social conditions further the existence of automatons, the result will not be love of life, but love of death.

  Erich Fromm

  Love Life, Men, Venture

  Erich Fromm (1963). “War Within Man: A Psychological Enquiry Into the Roots of Destructiveness”

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• hither,hither, from thy home,airy sprite, i bid thee come! born of roses, fed on dew, charms and potions canst thow brew? bring me here, with elfin speed,the fragment philter witch i need; make it sweet and swift and stong, spirite amserw now my song hither i come, from my airy home, afar silver moon. take magic spell, and use it well. or its powers will vanish soon!

  Louisa May Alcott

  Song, Sweet, Home

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• Mine Enemy is growing old -- I have at last Revenge -- The Palate of the Hate departs -- If any would avenge Let him be quick -- the Viand flits -- It is a faded Meat -- Anger as soon as fed is dead -- 'Tis starving makes it fat

  Emily Dickinson

  Revenge, Hate, Enemy

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.489, Harvard University Press

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• Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor

  Herman Melville

  Poor, Criticize, Wells

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• I took her into bed with me and propped myself up with pillows against the headboard to let her nurse. As she nursed and the milk came, she began a little low contented sort of singing. I would feel milk and love flowing from me to her as once it had flowed to me. It emptied me. As the baby fed, I seemed slowly to grow empty of myself, as if in the presence of that long flow of love even grief could not stand.

  Wendell Berry

  Baby, Grief, Nurse

  Wendell Berry (2005). “Hannah Coulter: A Novel”, p.55, Counterpoint Press

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• I think that all good, right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being sick and tired. I'm certainly not, and I'm sick and tired of being told that I am.

  Graham Chapman

  Inspirational, Country, Fun

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• A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Home, Humor

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 1 (1894)

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• The visible world is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears; and I still warm hands thankfully at the old fire, though every year it is fed with the dry wood of more old memories.

  Edith Wharton

  Memories, Eye, Fire

  Edith Wharton (1990). “Novellas and Other Writings”, Library of America

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• The ducks in St James's Park are so used to being fed bread by secret agents meeting clandestinely that they have developed their own Pavlovian reaction. Put a St James's Park duck in a laboratory cage and show it a picture of two men -- one usually wearing a coat with a fur collar, the other something sombre with a scarf -- and it'll look up expectantly.

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, Two, Ducks

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• I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, well fed, well clothed, well housed. I went to school and there were libraries with all the world in them and after school I played in orange groves and in Little League and in the band and down at the beach and every day was an adventure. . . . I grew up in utopia.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Beach, Children, School

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2013). “Pacific Edge: Three Californias”, p.300, Orb Books

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• The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the ticker-tape, but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, and from writer to reader spreads the fire that is fed by the various essences, until it becomes a vast conflagration leaping from forest to forest.

  Romain Rolland

  Book, Fire, Impact

  "Journey Within". Book by Romain Rolland. Chapter 2: "The Three Revelations", 1947.

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• We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?

  Christina Rossetti

  Men, Roots, Looks

  Christina Rossetti (2012). “Goblin Market and Other Poems”, p.2, Courier Corporation

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• The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it — and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived.

  Upton Sinclair

  Firsts, Study, Ancient

  Upton Sinclair (2005). “The Profits of Religion”, p.24, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The executives who run the fast food industry are not bad men. They are businessmen. They will sell free-range, organic, grass-fed hamburgers if you demand it. They will sell whatever sells at a profit.

  Eric Schlosser

  Running, Men, Hamburgers

  Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.269, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We don't teach from Books of the Bible because it gets in the way of evangelism. We don't offer different kinds of Bible studies because it gets in the way of evangelism. We don't teach doctrine because it gets in the way of evangelism. If you want to be fed God's word or have the Bible explained to you then you are a fat lazy Christian and you need to shut up and get to work or you need to leave this church because we ONLY do evangelism.

  Steven Furtick

  Christian, Book, Lazy

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• Early in April, as I was vigorously hoeing in a corner, I unearthed a huge toad, to my perfect delight and satisfaction; he had lived all winter, he had doubtless fed on slugs all the autumn. I could have kissed him on the spot.

  Celia Thaxter

  Life, Autumn, Winter

  Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.56, Applewood Books

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• The flames of freedom which were lighted across this great land of ours in Thomas Jefferson's day have continued to burn with an intense and magnetic light for nearly 200 years. They have been fed by the spiritual fuel which abounds only in a land where an abiding faith in God and recognition of Him as the true Author of Liberty prevail.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Faith, Spiritual, Light

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• Real happiness is not dependent on external things. The pond is fed from within. The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions. You must cultivate your mind if you wish to achieve enduring happiness.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Motivational, Real, Spring

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