Salt Quotes - page 11

After my hip operation, I had to cut out butter, which I loved, and salt. I no longer eat desserts with lots of cream, and I've cut right back on alcohol. (Maeve Binchy)
Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists. View quote
Norman Borlaug
Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust. View quote
Henry S. Haskins
On the ice flow they grip, cut, twist, break open seeds throwing out the white salt, revive volcanic dreams: unable to satisfy their diminuated lust the allegoric flesh learns the thrill of return. View quote
John Carder Bush
The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid. View quote
W. H. Auden
I know of a cure for everything: salt water... in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea. View quote
Karen Blixen
To struggle when hope is banished To live when lifes salt is gone To dwell in a dream thats vanished To endure, and go calmly on. View quote
Ben Jonson
I discovered surfing, which I absolutely fell in love with. That feels good and kind of keeps your body aligned, so does the salt water. View quote
Anthony Kiedis
The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy: tomorrow is an inevitable heresy of today, which has turned into a pillar of salt, and to yesterday, which has scattered to dust. Today denies yesterday, but is a denial of denial tomorrow. View quote
Yevgeny Zamyatin
People who are the salt of the earth get up and go to a job that they hate. View quote
Gene Simmons
All this shouldn't last; but it will, always; the human 'always' of course, a century, two centuries... and after that it will be different, but worse. We were the Leopards, the Lions; those who'll take our place will be little jackals, hyenas; and the whole lot of us, Leopards, jackals, and sheep, we'll all go on thinking ourselves the salt of the earth. (Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa)
For an Apple is in it self a little Universe; the Seed, hotter than the other parts thereof, is its Sun, which diffuses about it self that natural Heat which preserves its Globe: And in the Onion, the Germ is the little Sun of that little World, which vivifies and nourishes the vegetative Salt of that little mass. View quote
Cyrano de Bergerac
I lost 90 pounds and my blood pressure went down to a normal level and the salt in my urine disappeared. And that was when I had to make the transition from fat character actor to thin character actor. View quote
Ron Perlman
I just finished touring, and I'm on a detox thing. It's a heavy detox, so nothing in my belly except water, salt, and cayenne pepper. View quote
Eddie Vedder
I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy. Take a salt bath. Do things that my parents were never able to do. I'm blessed to do anything I want so I decide to take the best care of my body and my family in the same way. Holistically. Vitally. View quote
Erykah Badu
You don't realize how hard it is to live on your own. But there's no mom to do your laundry, and make you dinner and to do things for you, and you don't think about little things like buying paper towels and salt. View quote
Emma Roberts
I take everything with a grain of salt. View quote
Hope Solo
No well-run yacht basin in Southern waters is complete without at least two sun-burned, salt bleached-headed Esthonians who are waiting for a check from their last article. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings. View quote
Jimmy Carter
We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities- not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. View quote
Jimmy Carter
It would be impossible, I'd just chuck meself into the salt pot or something. I'd hate that, that would be horrible that [Karl answering Ricky's question of how he would get Suzanne's attention in the Kitchen if he were a slug]. (Karl Pilkington)
... because real thoughts come from outside and travel with us like the noodle soup we take to work; in other words, inquisitors burn books in vain. If a book has anything to say, it burns with a quiet laugh, because any book worth its salt points up and out of itself. View quote
Bohumil Hrabal
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. View quote
Matthew Arnold
Gravy is the simplest, tastiest, most memory-laden dish I know how to make: a little flour, salt and pepper, crispy bits of whatever meat anchored the meal, a couple of cups of water or milk and slow stirring to break up lumps. View quote
Dorothy Allison
Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little. View quote
Lee Iacocca