Molasses Quotes

• I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses.

  Christopher Columbus

  Men, Glasses, Dozen

  Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.46

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• Bad news travels at the speed of light; good news travels like molasses.

  Tracy Morgan

  Light, News, Speed

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• His voice was soft and sweet as molasses; but my mother once told me that you had to trust that the first thing out of a person's mouth was truth. After they have a chance to think about it, they'll change what they say to be more socially acceptable, something they think you'll be happier with, something that will get the results they want.

  Patricia Briggs

  Mother, Sweet, Thinking

  Patricia Briggs (2006). “Moon Called”, p.88, Penguin

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• Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Law, Genius, Cotton

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• The air was so sweet in New Orleans it seemed to come in soft bandannas; and you could smell the river and really smell the people, and mud, and molasses, and every kind of tropical exhalation, with your nose suddenly removed from the dry ices of a Northern winter.

  Jack Kerouac

  Sweet, Winter, New Orleans

  Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1995). “The portable Jack Kerouac”, Penguin Group USA

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• If you need to visualize the soul, think of it as a cross between a wolf howl, a photon and a dribble of dark molasses. But what it really is, as near as I can tell, is a packet of information. It's a program, a piece of hyperspatial software designed explicitly to interface with the Mystery. Not a mystery, mind you - the Mystery. The one that can never be solved.

  Tom Robbins

  Dark, Thinking, Soul

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• We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.

  Orville Redenbacher

  Corn, Feeding, Made

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• I used to think, if I were the Lord, I would not suffer people to be tried as they are. But I have changed my mind on that subject. Now I think I would, if I were the Lord, because it purges out the meanness and corruption that stick around the saints, like flies around molasses.

  John Taylor

  Change, Thinking, People

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• Pike put down the cat. He slid from Pike's arms like molasses and puddled at his feet.

  Robert Crais

  Cat, Feet, Arms

  Robert Crais (2008). “Chasing Darkness: An Elvis Cole Novel”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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