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Quotes About Feast

Your pretty songs were nothing but lies and now, because of you, your friends will perish here. I will devour them for their false trust in their deceit. Why don't you sing for me while I feast, lovely bard? I like a pretty tune.
~ Storm Constantine
As it happens, I partook of a very fine meal last night which filled me with energy and strength.
~ Storm Constantine
She walks in the great hall searching for the wedding feast that faded away like a dream. She is looking for herself as she was.
~ Storm Constantine
She'd invited Oskan to the Yule Feast. Or rather, she'd sent a royal command ordering his presence on the twenty-first day of Icemas.
~ Stuart Hill
Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
~ Aldous Huxley
If you find yourself craving approval, you are low on self-love. Stop grasping for a few scraps wherever you can. Go home and make yourself a feast. Love yourself deeply today.
~ Vironika Tugaleva
He calls for food. Who will feed me? I, who have fed so many, am hungry. Bring me food. Let there be food. Oysters on a silver salver. He drinks them from their shells. Sweet skewers of pork with a peanut glaze. He tears them with his teeth. Filo parcels of feta and spinach. He breaks them with his hands. His prayer is answered. The feast surrounds him.
~ Monica Ali
I ate it all she gave me another piece and when I ate all of that she gave me another with honey. My stomach was so full I could feel it with my hand.
~ Naomi Novik
There was no eager ache of hunger in my belly from the long day of cooking and cleaning without a pause; there was no joyful noise of too many people crammed in around the table, laughing and reaching for the platters. Looking down at my tiny feast only made me feel more desperately lonely.
~ Naomi Novik
It's such a good meal tonight. Lemon chicken, carrot-raisin salad, orzo, broccoli, a nice dinner roll, and chocolate pudding.
~ Caroline B. Cooney
I've always had fond memories of cooking Thanksgiving.
~ Wylie Dufresne
The best meal at my restaurant is the whole right side of the menu.
~ Junior Seau
I dreamed about the nature of man, and about a courteous, reasonable, and respectable community of men - while the ghastly bloody feast went on in the temple behind them. Were they courteous and charming to one another, those sunny folk, out of silent regard for that horror?
~ Thomas Mann
Zal ook uit dit wereldfeest van de dood, ook uit deze vreselijke koortsgloed die overal rondom de regenachtige hemel in brand steekt, ooit de liefde opstijgen?
~ Thomas Mann
The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life, the more we analyze them out into strange finalities and complex purposes of our own, the more we involve ourselves in sadness. But it does not matter much because no despair of ours can alter the reality of things, or stain the joy of the cosmic dance which is always there.
~ Thomas Merton
You're hungry, Denis?" "Really. Hey, like Godzilla always sez to Mothra–why don't we go eat some place?
~ Thomas Pynchon
It seemed a place where heroes could fitly feast after victory, where weary harvesters could line up in scores along the table and keep their Harvest Home with mirth and song, or where two or three friends of simple tastes could sit about as they pleased and eat and smoke and talk in comfort and contentment.
~ Kenneth Grahame
In the Parable of the Great Banquet, many of those who failed to share the joy of the feast were ordinary people who were simply too busy with their future-oriented life. As the invitation came, they ignored it and went off to tend their everyday business. Like most people, they felt that it is more important to make a living than to go to a feast and make merry. In a word, they are too "serious.
~ Kenneth S. Leong
The kids had already mangled the fruit plate, but the sashimi- fresh raw tuna- fanned out in cool pink glory next to makizushi sushi rolls. Marinated mochiko chicken still steamed, crispy fresh from the deep fryer, and Grandma's homemade pickled vegetables- takuwan and tsukemono- lay in small dishes next to it. "Oooh, one of the aunties made shrimp tempura." Trish piled hand-battered, deep-fried shrimp on a paper plate.
~ Camy Tang
Yo, strong ups to Big Daddy Tapper for frontin' the bill on dem wingz.
~ Geoff Rodkey
It snewed in his hous of mete and drynke.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
tendremos curantos
~ Isabel Allende
Then we offer our guest "pot luck," which means that the mistress of the house will take bread out of her children's mouths to give to the visitor, who is obliged to accept it. If you receive a formal invitation, you can expect a gargantuan feast: the goal is to leave the guests moaning with indigestion for several days. Of course, women always do the hard work.
~ Isabel Allende
A cheerful look makes a dish a feast
~ George Edward Herbert