Salt Quotes - Page 13

• You just have to take a little salt, and since I'm doing that it's, like, BOOM! In one week, I felt it kick in. All the commotion around me, all the water around me, moving left and right around me, became like a lake.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Moving, Lakes, Water

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• We must infer that a plant or animal of any species, is made up of special units, in all of which there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to aggregate into the form of that species: just as in the atoms of a salt, there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to crystallize in a particular way.‎

  Herbert Spencer

  Animal, Dna, Special

  Herbert Spencer (1864). “The Principles of Biology”, p.181

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• Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.

  Matthew Arnold

  Horse, Blow, Wind

  'The Forsaken Merman' (1849) l. 4

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• In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.

  Jared Diamond

  Water, Environmental, Montana

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• When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind from the good old sea blow in to bathe the wound with salt and let it sting. Let a stray dog lick it Let a bird fly in the hole and sing a simple song like a tiny bell and let it ring.

  Michael Leunig

  Dog, Song, Lying

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• Holy is the dish and drain, the soap and sink, and the cup and plate and the warm wool socks, and the cold white tile, showerheads and good dry towelsand frying eggs sound like psalms, with bits of salt measured in my palm. It's all a part of a sacrament, as holy as a day is spent.

  Carrie Newcomer

  Faith, Inspiration, Eggs

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• It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Ocean, Doe

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.271, Modern Library

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• Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love and the remorse which is the shadow of that sun.

  Cyril Connolly

  Memories, Wine, Sunshine

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• I have eaten your bread and salt.
  I have drunk your water and wine.
  The deaths ye died I have watched beside
  And the lives ye led were mine.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Wine, Drunk, Water

  Rudyard Kipling (1994). “The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

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• People do go back, but they don't survive, because two realities are claiming them at the same time. Such things are too much. You can salt your heart, or kill your heart, or you can choose between the two realities. There is much pain here. Some people think you can have your cake and eat it. The cake goes mouldy and they choke on what's left. Going back after a long time will make you mad, because the people you left behind do not like to think of you changed, will treat you as they always did, accuse you of being indifferent, when you are only different.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Pain, Heart, Reality

  Jeanette Winterson (1985). “Oranges are Not the Only Fruit”

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• By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across - each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip - is a coffee bean that will be crushed, ground up, mixed with a touch of cardamom, sometimes a tiny pinch of salt, boiled thrice with sugar, and served as a piping-hot tale.

  Rabih Alameddine

  Coffee, Book, Hot

  "The Blurb #11: A Fresh Eye" by Rabih Alameddine, therumpus.net. October 27, 2009.

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• Cheese and salt meat, should be sparingly eat.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Health, Meat, Cheese

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.35, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• There was a brisk northern wind, heavy and wet with the salt of the sea, and he felt, as he turned his face to it, fresh life and strength surging in his blood and bracing his limbs.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Ocean, Blood, Wind

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2007). “Sir Nigel and the White Company”, p.137, Fireship Press

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• White, black and yellow men - they all cry salt tears.

  Claude Aveline

  Men, Yellow, White

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• This week it's peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, toasted. And then, I'll put some salt on my hand like I'm taking a tequila shot and then take a bite of the sandwich.

  Jessica Simpson

  Pregnancy, Hands, Jelly

  "Jessica Simpson: 'Nephew Bronx thinks I'm having a girl'" by Ustin Harp, www.digitalspy.com. December 13, 2011.

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• In practice it undermines the transformation of faith. When Christians concentrate their time and energy on their own separate spheres and their own institutions-whether all-absorbing megachurches, Christian yellow-page businesses, or womb-to-tomb Christian cultural ghettoes-they lose the outward thrusting, transforming power that is at the heart of the gospel. Instead of being 'salt' and 'light' -images of a permeating and penetrating action-Christians and Christian institutions become soft and vulnerable to corruption from within.

  Os Guinness

  Christian, Heart, Practice

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• The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always find it salt.

  Winston Churchill

  Sea, People, Buckets

  Sir Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill (1946). “Victory: war speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill ...”

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• We understand it still that there is no easy road to freedom. We know it well that none of us acting alone can achieve success. We must therefore act together as a united people, for national reconciliation, for nation building, for the birth of a new world. Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another and suffer the indignity of being the skunk of the world. Let freedom reign.

  Nelson Mandela

  Beautiful, Land, Justice For All

  Presidential Inaugural Speech, delivered 10 May 1994, Pretoria, South Africa

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• There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it.

  George Eliot

  Folks

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.61

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• Speaking in tongues is as normal to me as 'Pass the salt' It's a secret, direct prayer language to God.

  Katy Perry

  Prayer, Secret, Tongue

  "Katy Perry's Preacher Mom Disagrees With Daughter's Career Choices", www.foxnews.com. March 16, 2011.

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• When called to the Council of the Twelve, October 4, 1963, he said in the Salt Lake Tabernacle: I think of a little sister, a French-Canadian sister, whose life was changed by the missionaries as her spirit was touched. As she said good-by to me and my wife in Quebec, she said, "President Monson, I may never see the Prophet. I may never hear the Prophet. But President, far better, now that I am a member of this Church, I can obey the Prophet."

  Thomas S. Monson

  Sister, Thinking, Lakes

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• Now no joy but lacks salt That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault; I crave the stain Of tears, the aftermark Of almost too much love, The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Sweet, Pain

  Robert Frost (1986). “Robert Frost”, Clarkson Potter

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• We are taught not to trust our own experiences. Great Salt Lake teaches me experience is all we have.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Lakes, Taught, Teach

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.92, Vintage

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• I was in Cancun, Mexico, sitting in a disappearing-edge swimming pool, on a bar stool that was actually under the water, watching palm trees sway in a sultry breeze against the unmistakable aqua splendor of the Caribbean Sea; drinking coconut, lime, and tequila from a scooped-out pineapple, with salt spray of breaking surf and sun kissing my skin. Translation: I'd died and gone to heaven.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Drinking, Swimming, Kissing

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• And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.

  Sarah Waters

  Sad, Moving On, Grief

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