Ate Quotes - page 11

Of this they drank half a pint every day, and sometimes more or less, as it operated, by way of gentle physic. Two others had each two oranges and one lemon given them every day. These they ate with greediness, at different times, upon an empty stomach. (James Lind)
I ate ants. They weren't that bad. View quote
Leslie Hope
My parents lived, breathed, ate and slept theatre. Emotions were right on the surface. Growing up, the unreal had as much importance as the real. View quote
Megan Follows
I grew up with a single mother, and although we didn't have a lot of money, she cared a great deal about what we ate. We were the original health-food family. We shopped at what were called health-food stores before Whole Foods - everything came from bins. View quote
Mona Simpson
I remember watching steak being cooked on TV and wanting to try it. As a special treat, my mother cooked it for me, and I thought this would be the time I would eat with a knife and fork. Alas, I ate it with chopsticks! View quote
Nobu Matsuhisa
If she know how strongly he felt, she'd have run out the door. He wasn't used to the possessive, or the savage joy she brought to his heart. It ate at his control, so he turned his attention to the music. He understood music. View quote
Patricia Briggs
Leslie had learned two valuable things about the fae that day. They were powerful and charming -- and they ate children and puppies. View quote
Patricia Briggs
He rose to his feet and padded down the last few steps silently, came up behind Kim, and leaned over her to say, "I vant to drink your blood” in a heavy, fake Dracula accent. She shrieked, flailed, and a zombie ate her brains on-screen."! View quote
Rachel Caine
When I got pregnant with my first child, I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: 'I'm just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when I'm pregnant.' That is true, but I also ate a lot of cake. View quote
Sally Phillips
My father was an expert hunter, so we ate a lot of wild game when I was growing up in Montana. That helped broaden my palate generally, but I know it informed my distaste for factory farms and unspectacular commercial meat. View quote
Steve Albini
I learned to cook from my mom. Most of what I ate growing up was Italian cooking. (Steve Albini)
Because of my Asian-ness, I couldn't be anonymous - what I said, what I ate, what I did at the weekend were startlingly different to what everyone else did. I was also a performer, quick and chameleon-like, good at accents, so that made me stand out. View quote
Sanjeev Bhaskar
I weighed 190 when I got to boot camp, I came out at 178. I ate only the beans and tomato sauce. View quote
Tom Sizemore
Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone. View quote
Tommy Cooper
My roots are African. The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African. View quote
Teresa Heinz
I used to make my own food and ate on my own in my room. View quote
Victoria Wood
Don't swear off all the fruits just because you ate one bad apple. View quote
Tiffanie DeBartolo
Count de Monet [consistently mispronounced as "count da money"]: Bearnaise, do we have any of those delicious raisins left? Bearnaise: You ate yours. These are mine. Count de Monet: Au contraire, they are mine! I paid for them! Hand them over! Bearnaise [sotto voce, mimicking]: 'I paid for them! They're mine!' View quote
Mel Brooks
My childhood was full of deep sorrows -- colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake. View quote
George Eliot
This is he. This is the man they ate at the green table Putting their gloves on ere they touched the meat. This is the fruit of war, the fruit of peace, The ripeness of invention, the new lamb, The answer to the wisdom of the wise. And still he hangs, and still he will not die And still, on the steel city of our years The light falls and the terrible blood streams down. View quote
Stephen Vincent Benét
For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are, and these are the things that you can't come to know by hearsay... (W. Somerset Maugham)
In an effort to salvage the money I wasted on this bullshit, I ate six cups of jello, one bag of corn nuts, a Soynut bar, and a bag of jelly beans for dinner. The only thing X-TREME about this experience was the X-TREME dump I took later that night:. View quote
Maddox
In the beginning was boredom, commonly called chaos. God, bored with boredom, created the earth, the sky, the waters, the animals, the plants, Adam and Eve; and the latter, bored in their turn in paradise, ate the forbidden fruit. God became bored with them and drove them out of Eden. View quote
Alberto Moravia
Learn to live well, or fairly make your will You've played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill Walk sober off before a sprightlier age Comes tittering on, and shoves you from the stage. View quote
Alexander Pope
The guy was infected with bird flu because he took a sick chicken, slaughtered it and and then ate it. View quote
Thaksin Shinawatra