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Quotes About Feast

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
~ Epictetus
You must be hungry," Goosefeather went on. "Go get something to eat." He glanced at Featherwhisker. "You may as well go, too, and while you're at the fresh-kill pile, you can bring me back a morsel to eat. I've had a busy morning." Bluefur glanced around at the clearing. It was scattered with herbs lying amid fallen leaves, and a patch of grass was flattened in one corner where the sun pooled. It was the exact shape of a plump medicine cat. Busy? Huh.
~ Erin Hunter
Still to be neat, still to be drest,As you were going to a feast.
~ Ben Jonson
For me, food is about generosity, and this should reflect on the plate as well.
~ Marco Pierre White
Halloween is fun, but it wasn't always my favorite holiday. I think Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.
~ Tobin Bell
Thanksgiving is probably my favorite holiday - it's a day that's American to the core and it's a day that's all about what and how we eat.
~ Marcus Samuelsson
Thanksgiving Day, the holiday, has a certain feeling to it.
~ The Ultimate Warrior
Our holiday table is loud!
~ Marcela Valladolid
Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling.
~ Graham Greene
Thanksgiving is America's favorite holiday because it's a time when we put aside our cares, much as the struggling Pilgrims did nearly four centuries ago, and eat a gut-busting meal without worrying about the 'out years.'
~ David Ignatius
Liturgical theologian Aidan Kavanaugh says it well: "The liturgy, like the feast, exists not to educate but to seduce people into participating in common activity of the highest order, where one is freed to learn things which cannot be taught.
~ Shane Claiborne
The girls were offered bone cups filled with wiggly white stuff
~ Shannon Hale
It's fun to get together and have something good to eat at least once a day. That's what human life is all about - enjoying things.
~ Julia Child
This is a knight arriving for a castle feast. Knights wore armor when they traveled long and dangerous distances. The armor was very heavy. A helmet alone could weigh up to forty pounds.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
They always ate and made tea on the alcohol lamp before going to bed. This was quite in the German tradition, Tilda said. Germans in their homes ate six meals a day: breakfast, second breakfast, dinner, afternoon coffee, supper and in the evening tea or beer with sandwiches and kuchen. Betsy, in the cherry-red bathrobe, and Tilda in a blue one, feasted merrily.
~ Maud Hart Lovelace
Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o'erflow with wine; Let well-tuned words amaze With harmony divine.
~ Thomas Campion
Our Feast gatherings, which has spread all over the world, is attended by young people - and they love to sing worship songs.
~ Bo Sanchez
La sopa de tortilla, aromatizada con yerbas frescas de la huerta, el frito de plátanos, carne desmenuzada y roscas de harina de maiz, el excelente chocolate de la tierra, el queso de piedra, el pan de leche, y el agua servida en antiguos y grandes jarros de plata, no dejaron que desear.
~ Jorge Isaacs
Little son, I have longed a while to see you, and now I see you the fairest thing ever a woman bore. In sadness came I hither, in sadness did I bring forth, and in sadness has your first feast day gone. And as by sadness you came into the world, your name shall be called Tristan; that is the child of sadness." After she had said these words she kissed him, and immediately when she had kissed him she died.
~ Joseph Bédier
Now both Sun and Wind were greedy and selfish. They enjoyed the great feast that had been prepared for them, without a thought of saving any of it to take home to their mother--but the gentle Moon did not forget her. Of every dainty dish that was brought round, she placed a small portion under one of her beautiful long finger-nails, that Star might also have a share in the treat.
~ Joseph Jacobs
Many people think that the church simply took over a pagan holiday, but that is not so. As Sextus Julius Africanus had shown, there were good reasons for celebrating the feast of Christ's birth on December 25, and sun and light symbolism played a very great role in Christian worship.
~ Joseph Kelly
A hawk swooped overhead and Mapleshade imagined it feasting on Ravenwing's body after she had finished with him. He would bleed a river of blood, every drop spilled for her helpless kits. . .
~ Erin Hunter
What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?
~ Erma Bombeck
Such are the cellars over which the proud castles of tyranny rise and above which the aromas of their feast swirl: putrid caves of a gruesome kind in which the depraved rabble regales itself with the violation of human dignity and liberty for all eternity.
~ Ernst Junger