Chew Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“And this man, who during three long decades had not once remembered that the world contains lilac bushes - and pansies, sandy garden paths,…

— Vasily Grossman

“Most of us live our lives like toads, sitting perfectly still, under a plantain leaf. We are waiting for a fly to come our…

— Sherwood Anderson

“Oh, a dainty plant is the Ivy green, That creepeth o’er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his…

— Charles Dickens

“...One lives and survives only if one has the ability to swallow and digest bitter and unpalatable things. We, you and I, and our…

— Jamil Ahmad

“I've seen so much and lived it all. I  wanted  to  bite   the  earth  and  taste  it.  It  is  both  bitter  and  sweet,  and…

— Julie McSorley Marcus McSorley

“A bird hopped onto the foaming lilac outside. Its throat quivered; notes rose and fell out. As long as it kept singing and I…

— David Mitchell

“If I could just open my mouth wide enough to allow those gagging blobs of truth their slow, tar-seep passage up through my gullet,…

— Thalia Chaltas

“There is a story of a woman running away from tigers. She runs and runs and the tigers are getting closer and closer. When…

— Pema Chödrön

“I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, ‘Tis all barren—and so it is; and so is all the…

— Laurence Sterne

“All day long, one continues to suffer sweet or bitter fruits. This life has been attained for the purpose of experiencing!”

— Dada Bhagwan

“A Bird came down the Walk – He did not know I saw – He bit an Angleworm in halves And ate the fellow,…

— Emily Dickinson

“Unfurl my body, wind, lift me up into the branches of a majestic beauty that guides a people through life. I would sway with…

— Susan L. Marshall