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Quotes About Sweetness

The wordless song had the power of an operatic aria mingled with the sweetness of a lullaby. It was longing, beckoning, hopeful and heartbreaking
~ Brandon Mull
For while life was painful, life was also sweet.
~ Brandon Sanderson
It is a way to keep cider sweet without boiling. Let the frost come to freeze them first, solid as stones, and then the rain or a warm winter day to thaw them, and they will seem to have borrowed a flavor from heaven through the medium of the air in which they hang.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It would have been impossible to carry a bad name with a greater sweetness of innocence.
~ Henry James
The sweet quality is set opposite to the bitter, and is a gracious, amiable, blessed and pleasant quality, a refreshing of the life, an allaying of the fierceness. It maketh all pleasant and friendly in every creature; it maketh the vegetables of the earth fragrant and of good taste, affording fair, yellow, white and ruddy colours.
~ Jakob Bohme
Yellow plantains have a bit more sweetness and straddle the line between savory and sweet, while fully ripened black plantains are nearly as sweet as bananas, making them perfect for desserts - try them roasted with cream and sugar .
~ Sohla El-Waylly
For breakfast, I make an amazing protein shake with fruit, Greek yogurt, protein powder, flaxseed oil and honey. It's a nice way to get a healthy start and a little bit of sweetness, too.
~ Lindy Booth
You taste like sugar, " he pants through a smile, still out of breath."Somehow I doubt that. But I appreciate the thought.
~ Addison Moore, 3:AM Kisses
The sweetness of the Scripture is satisfactory to the soul.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The sweetness of taste of the truth.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Not everything's funny, Mother.""No, " said Leola, "so I guess when you can laugh, , it's all the sweeter.
~ Lorna Landvik, Oh My Stars
If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.
~ James Broughton
Holiness grows so fast where there is kindness. The world is lost for want of sweetness and kindness. Do not forget we need each other.
~ Mother Teresa
You're just a natural beehive, filled with honey to the top. Well, I ain't greedy baby, all I want is all you got.
~ Elvis Presley
Snow, tenderly caught by eddying breezes, swirled and spun in to and out of bright, lustrous shapes that gleamed against the emerald-blazoned black drape of sky and sparkled there for a moment, hanging, before settling gently to the soft, green-tufted plain with all the sickly sweetness of an over-written sentence.
~ Steven Brust
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. —E. B. White
~ Steven D. Price
Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.
~ David Leavitt
Could it be that sweetness is the prototype of all desire?
~ Michael Pollan
There's nothing sweet about me, love, he said.
~ Michelle M. Pillow
Ya smell like honey, he said. I'm allergic to bees, she whispered. I'll do my best not to sting ya, love.
~ Michelle M. Pillow
My thoughts have long been stirred and racked by just one name of passing sweetness: my days in paradise have lacked just your perfection for completeness
~ Mikhail Lermontov
Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.
~ Plautus
I love Hot Fudge Sundaes; I could die for Hot Fudge Sundaes.
~ Bob Farrell
Better than chocolate, being with you last night. Silly me, I thought that nothing was better than chocolate.
~ E. Lockhart, We Were Liars