Ate Quotes - page 8

Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and becauseit is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into behaving by the threat of divine punishment. View quote
Christopher Paolini
She [Lee's mother] was muddled and mischievous as a chimney-jackdaw, she made her nest of rags and jewels, was happy in the sunlight, squawked loudly at danger, pried and was insatiably curious, forgot when to eat or ate all day, and sang when sunsets were red. She lived the easy laws of the hedgerow, loved the world and made no plans, had a quick holy eye for natural wonders and couldn't have kept a neat house for her life. View quote
Laurie Lee
My family, theyre story tellers. My mom is Irish, and my dad is Italian. In my family, we werent allowed to watch TV while we ate - we had to sit around the table and tell stories about our day. View quote
Meg Cabot
When I ate vanilla frosting straight from the can, I could feel God standing right nest to me like a real best friend, watching, and smiling, and wishing he had a mouth. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition. View quote
Olivia Wilde
I always think like I was born in the country where everybody ate apples. Then I ended up in the country where everybody eats bananas. So now, I eat bananas so long, I'm just remembering the apples. View quote
Peter Sis
A lot of people will refer to comics by number to me, and I'll realize they're expecting me to remember all the comics by number. And I can't even remember what I ate this morning, let alone which comic was #473! View quote
Randall Munroe
The whole crew sat on the deck, without a storm or a monster attack to worry about for the first time in days, and ate ice cream. Well, except for Frank, who was lactose intolerant. He got an apple. View quote
Rick Riordan
When I ate slowly and deliberately, giving myself time to consider whether I actually wanted that next bite, I often discovered that I didn't. View quote
Ruth Reichl
I once ate nothing but grapefruit for an entire month. I didn't lose a pound. (Ruth Reichl)
I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti. View quote
Thomas Harris
A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back to school, little Starling. View quote
Thomas Harris
As people strengthened their willpower muscles in one part of their lives-in the gym, or a money management program-that strength spilled over into what they ate or how hard they worked. Once willpower became stronger, it touched everything. View quote
Charles Duhigg
The reader feels as if he is in Chongjin, where starving people ate the bark off trees; or atop Mount Taesong with the elite of Pyongyang, whose existence is a mix of sadism and whimsy; or with the masses who are bombarded day and night with the propaganda of North Korea's alternate reality. View quote
Adam Johnson
The United States was a big country where everybody wore funny t-shirts and ate too much. View quote
Adam Rex
Why do I have to feed the kids? They just ate twelve hours ago! View quote
Bill Cosby
I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar. View quote
Guy Fieri
People were so cheap there... they ate beans to save on bubble bath. View quote
Daniel Wallace
Annis had never been a people person, unless ‘people person' was defined as a person who ate people. View quote
Derek Landy
Ranger sent us to check on you," Hal said. "We just got here, and we heard shots." "Some moron ate my jelly doughnut," Lula said. "So I shot him. (Janet Evanovich)
As I examine my life through this book, I can't help but wonder if my mother was right. Maybe I really was what I ate. And maybe if she'd let me eat a little more sugar, I'd have come out sweeter. View quote
Jen Lancaster
Why wouldn't I dance?' Uh, maybe because at first glance he looked like he ate puppies for breakfast and kittens for lunch? View quote
Gena Showalter
As for will, woman should be consideredto man for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him. View quote
Donna Woolfolk Cross
Being followed is weird, that people want to discuss where I ate lunch or what I wear when I go to lunch... the private life is just gone. View quote
Alexander Skarsgard