Salted Fish Quotes

#1. Our town was known for two things--no, three: salted fish, expertly dyed fabrics, and corruption.

Angela Elwell Hunt

#2. The parallels between preserving food and preserving mummies were apparently not lost on posterity. In the nineteenth century, when mummies from Saqqara and Thebes were taken from tombs and brought to Cairo, they were taxed as salted fish before being permitted entry to the city.

Mark Kurlansky

#3. The barrels of salted fish were in the pantry, and yellow cheeses were stacked on the pantry shelves. Then

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#4. The salt intake of Europeans, much of it in the form of salted fish, rose from forty grams a day per person in the sixteenth century to seventy grams in the eighteenth century.

Mark Kurlansky

#5. But, then, Sampras won Wimbledon six times and that automatically puts him among the greatest.

Richard Krajicek

#6. I'd rather be in Hell with my soul and wits, than in the outside world without them.

Franny Billingsley

#7. Acting is something I did when I was a kid. I do act sometimes in friends' projects, but when I do, it's just for fun. It is actually a hobby for me now. I do still love stage acting, but the day-to-day process of being an actor is so exhausting and so taxing.

Mara Wilson

#8. I'm a big fan of music, I'm a student of music, and I just wanna learn and keep enhancing my education about the music.

Troy Andrews

#9. God's eyes are on me. His face is not against me. And even if others appear to be against me, I must make sure in my reaction to them that I extend grace and honor God.

Lysa TerKeurst

#10. We are all plants in God's great garden.
His knowledge is our soil.
With it we can live forever.
Without it we wilt and die.

Calvin W. Allison

#11. I may have made my reputation as a general in the Army, and I'm very proud of that. But I've always felt that I was more than one-dimensional. I'd like to think I'm a caring human being.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#12. The idea of the past is as useless as the idea of the future. Both could be invoked by anybody about anything. There is never any more beauty than there is now. There is no more joy or wonder or sorrow than there is now, nor perfection, nor any more evil nor any more good than there is now.

Richard Flanagan

#13. Words kept salted when they cannot be found fresh. Words kept fresh when they cannot be found clean. The words go deeper, far out of reach of vessels, blood vessels bursting, that thick humming in the head. To find the words, just out of reach, beyond my hand, the coral of it, the pearl of it, fish.

Jeanette Winterson

#14. NLP is an attitude and a methodology, not the trail of techniques it leaves behind

Richard Bandler

#15. Speak little, do much.

Benjamin Franklin

#16. He slid the photo out and raised it. The sun washed out any distinguishable characteristics. All except her eyes. He didn't need a picture to remember those. As turquoise as the waters near Cozumel, and just as warm.

Kelly Moran

#17. It makes me upset, if not angry, when people assume that there can be no morality without a religious framework. If there's a moral framework without all that religious stuff, it's more valuable.

Jane Asher

#18. Breathing in Shepelevo was like hitting the right note on the piano. There was only one note. When I was young, Shepelevo was the smell of nettles, of salted smoked fish, of fresh water from the Gulf of Finland, and of burning firewood, all wrapped up in one Shepelevo.

Paullina Simons