Throat Quotes - Page 30

• I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat.

  Michael Newdow

  Religious, Believe, Government

  "Litigant explains why he brought Pledge suit". "Talkback Live" with Arthel Neville, www.cnn.com. June 26, 2002.

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• I slammed the door in the child's face, a horrific scream trapped in my throat.

  Nnedi Okorafor

  Children, Doors, Faces

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• There is no logical basis to support the theory that plants feel pain. The dubious possibility that they might, however, is no justification for killing obviously sentient beings. Any rational person understands the striking difference between slitting the throat of a sentient animal and plucking a fruit or a vegetable.

  Joanne Stepaniak

  Pain, Animal, Vegetables

  Joanne Stepaniak (2000). “Being Vegan”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Love is not a consequence. Love is not a choice. Love is a thirst. A need as vital to the soul as water is to the body. Love is a precious draught that not only soothes a parched throat, but it vitalizes a man. It fortifies him enough that he is willing to slay dragons for the woman who offers it. Take that draught of love from me and I will shrivel to dust. To take it from a man dying of thirst and give it to another whilst he watches is a cruelty I never thought you capable of.

  Colleen Houck

  Love Is, Men, Dragons

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• At least when somebody's suffocating, you can tell: you see their faces turn blue, their lips quiver, their eyes buck, and their throats jerk. But when a man is mentally packing his bags the suitcase is never out until he's already standing on the other side of the door.

  Kalisha Buckhanon

  Eye, Men, Blue

  Kalisha Buckhanon (2008). “Conception: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan

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• As for me, I used to be a bird
  with a gentle white womb,
  someone cut my throat
  just for laughs,
  I don’t know.
  As for me, I used to be a great albatross
  and whirled over the seas.
  Someone put an end to my journey,
  without any charity in the tone of it.
  But even stretched out on the ground
  I sing for you now
  my songs of love.

  Alda Merini

  Song, Cutting, Journey

  Alda Merini (2016). “Love Lessons: Selected Poems of Alda Merini”, p.51, Princeton University Press

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• I get more results for my money than in any other philanthropic scheme. It is a medical fact that children can have a better chance in life with better looks, better health and more vigor if the teeth, nose, throat and mouth are taken proper care of at the crucial time of childhood.

  George Eastman

  Children, Taken, Childhood

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• "I'm going over the valley." (Dying from throat cancer, his doctor found him wandering around his room, asked him where was he going?)

  Babe Ruth

  Cancer, Doctors, Dying

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• Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind; Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote. Who too deep for his hearers still went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thought of dining: Though equal to all things, for all things unfit; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Nice, Party, Learning

  'Retaliation' (1774) l. 29 (on Edmund Burke)

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• So where does the name Adam's apple come from? Most people say that it is from the notion that this bump was caused by the forbidden fruit getting stuck in the throat of Adam in the Garden of Eden. There is a problem with this theory because some Hebrew scholars believe that the forbidden fruit was the pomegranate. The Koran claims that the forbidden fruit was a banana. So take your pick---Adam's apple, Adam's pomegranate, Adam's banana. Eve clearly chewed before swallowing.

  Mark Leyner

  Believe, Garden, Names

  Mark Leyner, Billy Goldberg, M.D. (2006). “Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?: More Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Whiskey Sour”, p.9, Crown Archetype

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• What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?

  Voltaire

  Cutting, Men, Heaven

  Voltaire (2011). “A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary”, p.139, OUP Oxford

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• She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?

  Toni Morrison

  Gratitude, Hurt, Beer

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• Air goes in and out of my nose, throat, lungs, blood, heart brain - and so I am

  Matthew Quick

  Heart, Air, Blood

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• Gently, I ran my hand across his chest, exploring it. My breath felt tight in my throat. He was so beautiful. His muscles were toned, defined, his skin warm and smooth. Stroking my palm up over the line of his collarbone, I felt the firmness of his shoulder, the strength of his bicep. I traced my fingers over the black AK, following the lines of the letters. Alex hardly moved as I touched him, his eyes never leaving me. Finally I sighed and dropped my hand. I tried to smile. "I've sort of been wanting to do that ever since that first night in the motel room," I admitted.

  L.A. Weatherly

  Beautiful, Eye, Night

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• There was no way that I wanted him to stop touching me, even for a few hours. My pulse thudded as I glanced across at the camp bed. I cleared my throat. "Wel...is there a reason we can't both take the bed? The sleeping bags zip together, don't they?" Alex stared at me without moving. "Would that be OK?" I asked, feeling nervous suddenly. The lantern light made his eyes look darker, his hair almost black. He started to smile, a grin spreading across his face. "Yes, that would be extremely OK.

  L.A. Weatherly

  Moving, Eye, Sleep

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• Sara held up a hand. 'How exactly did you "decline" his offer?' 'By slitting his throat.

  Nalini Singh

  Hands, Decline, Offers

  Nalini Singh (2009). “Angels' Blood”, p.85, Penguin

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• A person shows signs of clutching on too fast, of being needy, of not hearing the word "no," of jealousy, of guarding you and your freedom. But the signs can be so small they skitter right past you. Sometimes they dance past, looking satiny, something you should applaud. Someone's jealousy can make you feel good. Special. But it's not even about you. It's about a hand that is already gripping. It's about their need, circling around your throat

  Deb Caletti

  Past, Hands, Feel Good

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• I don’t write poetry when I wish, I write when I can’t, when my larynx is flooded and my throat is shut.

  Anna Kamienska

  Writing, Wish, I Can

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• No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Fall, Men, Eden

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1897). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• Mine (story) ain't the scariest, the clearest, the most painful, or the most beautiful. It just happens to be the one that's got it's fingers around my throat.

  Junot Diaz

  Beautiful, Stories, Painful

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• There is a place where we are always alone with our own mortality, where we must simply have something greater than ourselves to hold onto-God or history or politics or literature or a belief in the healing power of love, or even righteous anger.... A reason to believe, a way to take the world by the throat and insist that there is more to this life than we have ever imagined.

  Dorothy Allison

  Believe, Healing, Literature

  Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.121, Open Road Media

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• Girl with the burning golden eyes,
  And red-bird song, and snowy throat:
  I bring you gold and silver moons,
  And diamond stars, and mists that float.
  I bring you moons and snowy clouds,
  I bring you prarie skies to-night
  To feebly praise your golden eyes
  And red-bird song, and throat so white.
  ~Vachel Lindsay "To Gloriana"
  God wrote His loveliest poem on the day
  He made the first silver poplar tree,
  And set it high upon a pale-gold hill
  For all the new enchanted earth to see.

  Grace Noll Crowell

  Girl, Song, Stars

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• Guys always think tears are a sign of weakness. They’re a sign of FRUSTRATION. She’s only crying so she won’t cut your throat in your sleep. So make nice and be grateful.

  Donna Barr

  Nice, Grateful, Sleep

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• I tried to do the commercial thing. But I don't want to keep shoving Twinkies down everyone's throat. People are hungry for something of more substance.

  Lili Taylor

  People, Substance, Want

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• They look at me and I kind of back up in case they go for my throat.

  Terry Goodkind

  Looks, Kind, Cases

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