Breakfasted Quotes

#1. The colonel breakfasted with the leisure of a fighter who has been clipped badly, hears four, and knows how to relax truly for five seconds or more.

Ernest Hemingway,

#2. Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

Benjamin Franklin

#3. Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife
beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table.

Willa Cather

#4. shall be up before you are awake; I shall be afield before you are up; and I shall have breakfasted before you are afield. In short, I shall astonish you all." (All.)

Thomas Hardy

#5. Breakfast was over, and none had breakfasted.

Charlotte Bronte

#6. Half an hour later, Harry and Ron, who had dressed and breakfasted quickly, entered the drawing room,

J.K. Rowling

#7. I shall be up before you are awake; I shall be afield before you are up; and I shall have breakfasted before you are afield. In short, I shall astonish you all.

Thomas Hardy

#8. together they breakfasted on 'Venison and Chockalatte',

Henry Hitchings

#9. A pleasantly situated hotel close to the sea, and chalets by the water's edge where one breakfasted. Clientele well-to-do, and although I count myself no snob I cannot abide paper bags and orange peel. ("Not After Midnight")

Daphne Du Maurier

#10. Having found the book which has a message for us, let us not be guilty of the folly of saying we have read it. We might as well say we have breakfasted, as if breakfasting on one day should last us for every day! The book that helps us deserves many readings, for assimilation comes by slow degrees.

Charlotte M. Mason

#11. Our little kinsmen after rain
In plenty may be seen,
a pink and pulpy multitude
The tepid ground upon;
A needless life if seemed to me
Until a little bird
As to a hospitality
Advanced and breakfasted.

Emily Dickinson

#12. From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress.

Carl Albert

#13. As we say in our African idiom, a person is a person through other persons. To dehumanize another inexorably means that one is dehumanized as well.

Desmond Tutu

#14. When I was lost in the fog, it was as though nothing else existed. And, afterwards, it seemed incomprehensible that I had ever really thought like that. Self-recrimination inevitably followed.

Alexis Hall

#15. The very right to be human is denied every day to hundreds of millions of people as a result of poverty, the unavailability of basic necessities such as food, jobs, water and shelter, education, health care and a healthy environment.

Nelson Mandela

#16. The instruments for the quest for Truth are as simple as they are difficult.

Mahatma Gandhi

#17. Because I do not hope to know again
The infirm glory of the positive hour
Because I do not think
Because I know I shall not know
The one veritable transitory power

T. S. Eliot

#18. They want the Indians eliminated, and the lands opened up to white settlers, but they don't want anybody to get hurt in the process. That just ain't possible.

Michael Crichton

#19. The tourist travels in his own atmosphere like a snail in his shell and stands, as it were, on his own perambulating doorstep to look at the continents of the world. But if you discard all this, and sally forth with a leisurely and blank mind, there is no knowing what may not happen to you.

Freya Stark

#20. Peace is our gift to each other.

Elie Wiesel

#21. When I was in high school, my uncle, who went to the races quite a bit, got me interested. Then when I went to college at Southern Illinois University, just a few hours from Louisville, we used to go to the Kentucky Derby, and I got to see Secretariat and Riva Ridge win.

Kenny Troutt

#22. We are supposed to do our fallible, failing best to perceive the other bad people as kin.

Francis Spufford

#23. The drawback of stealing a thing, is that one never knows how wonderful the thing that one steals is.

Oscar Wilde

#24. 'The Prince' was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. 'Rules for Radicals' is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.

Saul Alinsky

#25. As an announcer, 'The Price Is Right' is the mother of all shows not only because of its legacy, but because it is by far the most demanding game show.

Randy West