"It is said that water is for cattle……" — Walter M. Miller, Jr.
"It is said that water is for cattle and farmers, that milk is for children and blood for men."
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22 Quotes by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Walter M. Miller, Jr. has 22 quotes on this site.
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Bless me Father, I ate a lizard.
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One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.
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Speak up, destiny, speak up! Destiny always seems decades away, but suddenly it's not decades away; it's right now. But…
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The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one…
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Fire, loveliest of the four elements of the world, and yet an element too in Hell. While it burned adoringly…
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I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity.
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That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.
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The trouble with being a priest was that you eventually had to take the advice you gave to others.
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Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery,…
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To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became…
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Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.
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....Nature imposes nothing on you that Nature doesn't prepare you to bear.
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The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.
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The Eucharistic sacrifice of the body and blood of Christ embraces in turn the mystery of our Lord's continuing passion…
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But the love of adventure was in father's blood.
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I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
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