There was a willow hanging over the mill-pool and I learned to climb it. It belonged to a butcher on the Stratford… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh And sees fast-by a butcher with an axe, But will suspect 'twas he that… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Religious discord has lost her sting; the cumbrous weapons of theological warfare are antiquated: the field of politics supplies the alchymists of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
My grandfather, Harry Ferguson, was a butcher in Hill of Beath; so even though my grandparents lived in some poverty, we got… — Kenneth Cranham Copy Share Image
Vanity may be likened to the smooth-skinned and velvet-footed mouse, nibbling about forever in expectation of a crumb; while self-esteem is too… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
Entre le ro" le de sauveur et celui de complice du bourreau,j'aper c° ois tout au plus l'incommode emploi de victime. Between… — Stephanie Crayencour Copy Share Image
But later that day, the streets of Kweilin were strewn with newspapers reporting great Kuomintang victories, and on top of these papers,… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I don’t duel, boy. I kill as a soldier kills, which is as a butcher kills, as quickly, efficiently, and with as… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I could not help wondering in my own mind....how it came to pass that our joints of meat were of such extraordinary… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I'd trained to be a diplomat but the state department said I was too liberal. I saw an ad in the New… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are… — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
The butcher seldom sees much interest in allowing the herd to be armed. — Theodore Beale Copy Share Image
Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say 'Yes, I’m sitting next to the butcher now,'… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
“When Bach died some of his children sold his scores to the butcher they had decided the paper was more useful for… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
When I took my clothes off in Blue Velvet, I wanted to convey the brutality of sex abuse. I wanted to look… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
When we ask what ought to be the relative remunerations of a nurse or a butcher, or a coal miner and a… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of living beings: often the smell… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
The mishandling of food and equipment with panache was always admired; to some extent, this remains true to this day. Butchers still… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
My school music teacher, Al Bennest, introduced me to jazz by playing Louis Armstrong's record of "West End Blues" for me. I… — Bill Crow Copy Share Image
Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
