Swallowed Quotes

254 quotes by 200 authors

In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite. — Anatole France
We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen. — Nathalie Sarraute
Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love. — Michael K. Williams
Sometimes it was easier to swim with the current rather than fight against it. There was always a shallow pool somewhere ahead. Memories are like… — Helen Hollick
I wonder how many tears the ocean has swallowed, how much of the ocean is actually made of tears. — Anna Banks
Like the whale who swallowed Jonah, we have engulfed all national dishes known to civilized man and made them in delight, if not in name… — Louis Pullig De Gouy
And the reward when good people die - her mother paused, swallowed, paused again - the reward when good people die is that they get… — Dara Horn
Tragedy isn't an easy thing to kill. It takes more than a turtle. Tragedy must be destroyed by someone willing to be swallowed by it,… — N.D. Wilson
A sudden cloud formation of birds was swallowed up by the moon, and he was just as suddenly penned in by four walls-the demons' pen. — Mo Yan
She swallowed and looked down at the artichoke petals piled neatly on the side of her plate. Her center certainly felt like it was melting,… — Elizabeth Hoyt
I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. — Keith Haring
Like Jonah, the whale had swallowed me; unlike him, I believed I would spend eternity inside the belly of the beast. — Bob Kerrey
Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and… — D. H. Lawrence
What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed up, and all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
My lad chewed and swallowed a dictionary. We gave him Epsom salts - but we can't get a word out of him. — Les Dawson
All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and changed into another… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Many Canadian nationalists harbour the bizarre fear that should we ever reject royalty, we would instantly mutate into Americans, as though the Canadian sense of… — Will Ferguson
Those of us who refuse to risk and grow get swallowed up by life. — Patti Hansen
I am a marathon worker and marathon mother. I'll spend three or four days completely swallowed up by work. And if I make it home… — Mika Brzezinski
The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where… — Charles Caleb Colton

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