Top 42 Quotes About Thyme
#1. The air smelled of box and mint and thyme and newly turned earth. Laura
Rosamunde Pilcher
#2. Now the summer's in prime Wi' the flowers richly blooming, And the wild mountain thyme A' the moorlands perfuming. To own dear native scenes Let us journey together, Where glad innocence reigns 'Mang the braes o' Balquhither.
Robert Tannahill
#3. Clams served on Quinnipeague were dug from the from the flats hours before cooking, and the batter, which was exquisitely light, held bits of parsley and thyme. Other fried clams couldn't compare.
Barbara Delinsky
#4. Nature has not changed. The night is still unsullied, the stars still twinkle, and the wild thyme smells as sweetly now as it did then ... We may be afflicted and unhappy, but no one can take from us the sweet delight which is nature's gift to those who love her and her poetry.
George Sand
#6. I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.
William Shakespeare
#7. Go, then, go while you can. Go to your hot stew and your loaves of thyme bread. There's never time to mourn the dead while the business of the living continues. ~ Conor
Lisa Ann Verge
#8. As bees extract honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so sensible men often get advantage and profit from the most awkward circumstances.
Plutarch
#9. My favorite comfort food would have be braised beef. You know, beef, slow-cooked in a Dutch oven or in a slow cooker until it falls apart with simple mushrooms, some onions and lots of fresh thyme and garlic.
Tyler Florence
#10. Lord, what fools these mortals be! Wonder on till truth make all things plain A foolish heart, that I leave here behind I know a bank where the wild thyme blows If we shadows have offended She'd
Jean Hegland
#11. Hope is a very strange thing, Constance Thyme, and something I haven't had much of, as late. Yet all the signs lead me to believe there may be some left in the world for me, after all.
Antoinette Turner
#12. Working on the native-herb garden in the front corner of the yard. Already thriving: thyme, hyssop, spearmint, lemon balm, fennel, chamomile, marjoram. Must add: lavender, ambrosia, valerian, mugwort, pennyroyal, gillyflower, and (when it's warmer) sweet basil.
Neal Stephenson
#13. Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint,
And sweet thyme true,
Primrose, first born child of Ver,
Merry Spring-time's harbinger.
Francis Beaumont
#14. Bring the buds of the hazel-copse, Where two lovers kissed at noon; Bring the crushed red wild-thyme tops Where they murmured under the moon ...
Alfred Noyes
#15. If it's all true, then we're in the citadel of unbelief, where nightmares are dispatched with Lysol and scalpels and chemotherapy rather than with stakes and Bibles and wild mountain thyme.
Stephen King
#16. It was like a journey into space. I was standing on Mars, knee-deep in thyme, under a sky that seemed never to have known dust or cloud.
John Fowles
#17. Happiness is a roadside flower growing on the highways of usefulness; plucked, it shall wither in thy hand; passed by, it is fragrance to thy spirit. Trample the thyme beneath thy feet; be useful, be happy.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
#19. The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or marjolaine: so the pieces borrowed from others he will transform and mix up into a work all his own.
Michel De Montaigne
#20. Other herbs such as basil, rosemary, thyme, sage, marjoram and chervil all make wonderful additions to meals and bring with them many health benefits as well. These
Stephan Domenig
#21. In the past few years, we've been doing amazing stuff with desserts. Pastry chefs have been using herbs and spices in their desserts. So vanilla cake doesn't have to be just vanilla, it can have a little thyme. Or you could have a custard with a little lavender in it, which is just amazing.
Ron Ben-Israel
#22. Those herbs which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but, being trodden upon and crushed, are three; that is, burnet, wild thyme and watermints. Therefore, you are to set whole alleys of them, to have the pleasure when you walk or tread.
Francis Bacon
#23. My woman has a wandering eye;
Yarrow, thyme and thorn.
She eyes the ocean and the sky
While stitching sails, forlorn.
I got a kiss, and then a tear
As she bade me go;
But on the waves, my heart's in fear:
My woman's in the know.
F.T. McKinstry
#24. Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.
Plato
#25. She smells of her cooking and the perfume Eau d'Hadrien. My mother wore it, too. She used to cook, like Lili. Our house smelled of garlic and thyme instead of sadness.
Jennifer Donnelly
#26. No prince had lived in those wretched hovels, no red-robed bishops, only farmers and laborers whose stories no one had written down, and now they were lost, buried under wild thyme and fast growing spurge.
Cornelia Funke
#27. There's the man with his cart who sold me rolls sprinkled with thyme and sesame every morning and then saluted me like a soldier.
Diana Abu-Jaber
#28. I know a place where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows.
William Shakespeare
#29. The feet should have more of the acquaintance of earth, and know more of flowers, freshness, cool brooks, wild thyme, and salt sand than does anything else about us ... It is only the entirely unshod that have lively feet.
Alice Meynell
#30. [In] the post-Enlightenment world, science [has] taken the place of magic, miracles, and superstition.
Jonah Goldberg
#31. The sorrow was no less in reality, but it became less oppressive from having some one in precisely the same relation to it as that in which she stood.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#32. It took me five months to lose twenty pounds and it took me hours to gain it back. I mean it was magical how quickly it all happened. Going back to my poor eating habits after having really good eating habits my stomach was a little unsettled.
Mila Kunis
#33. I think I just get excited by music, and, like, singing is a very physical thing. It releases endorphins in your body. You're using almost muscle in there, and I think that adrenaline really helps to kind of make the songs fresh every time.
Florence Welch
#34. For years, I tried medication, blade, work, escape, all attempts to drown out that incessant, reverberating drum of self-rejection.
Ann Voskamp
#35. You can't have a "debate" with people who constantly tell crazy lies. Pretending you can only legitimates their crazy lies.
Adam Kotsko
#36. Appreciate every breath you take. Someone else didn't get to take another breath today.
Blaque Diamond
#37. I think when you are young, you are hoping that this person will be the right one. The one you are going to be in love with forever, but sometimes you want that so much, you create something that isn't really there.
Johnny Depp
#40. Out of all the actors I have worked with, I love working with Larry Hagman the most. We were very close and it was just a wonderful time.
Barbara Eden
#41. The money needed to run for office, the money spent on lobbying by special interests, the ever-increasing economic disparity, and the well-funded legislative decisions, all favor corporate interests over the people.
Neil Young
#42. You know what's funny about death? I mean other than absolutely nothing at all? You'd think we could remember finding out we weren't immortal. Sometimes I see children sobbing airports and I think, Aww. They've just been told.
Carrie Fisher
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