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Quotes About Milk

Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.
~ blackie john stuart ii
For, the Word was made flesh, that Thy wisdom, whereby Thou createdst all things, might provide milk for our infant state.
~ St. Augustine
Milk and cookies, anyone?" Elliot reappears from the kitchen with a large platter of chocolate chip cookies, and a little wire holder containing a dozen little milk bottles with striped paper straws, that turn out to contain vanilla malted milk shakes. "Elliot, these are amazing," I say, slurping the bottom of my bottle. "No one ever thinks about malt in vanilla, but I like it better than chocolate.
~ Stacey Ballis
The ads have also helped manufacture a sense of panic about time, depicting families so rushed and harried in the morning that there is no time to make breakfast, not even to pour some milk over a bowl of cereal. No, the only hope is to munch on a cereal bar (iced with synthetic "milk" frosting) in the bus or car. (Tell me: Why can't these hassled families set their alarm clocks, like, ten minutes earlier?!)
~ Michael Pollan
Eighty percent of cancers, known as carcinomas, arise in epithelial cells—that is, the cells that make up the skin and the linings of organs. Breast cancers, for instance, don't just grow randomly within the breast, but normally begin in the milk ducts.
~ Bill Bryson
In shame, I sipped my tea and nibbled at my biscuit. I had never had tea with milk in it before or a biscuit of such rocklike cheerlessness. It tasted like something you would give a budgie to strengthen its beak.
~ Bill Bryson
I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.
~ Bill Watterson
In the valley of the giants where the stars and stripes explode, the peaches they were sweet and the milk and honey flowed.
~ Bob Dylan
Brooding on murder had turned their brains to milk.
~ Tanith Lee
The Manchus drank tea with a lot of milk. In her case, the milk came from the breasts of a nurse. Cixi had been taking human milk since her prolonged illness in the early 1880s, on the recommendation of a renowned doctor. Several wet nurses were employed, and took turns to squeeze milk into a bowl for her. The nurses brought their sucking babies with them, and the woman who served her the longest stayed on in the palace, her son being given education and an office job.
~ Jung Chang
El animal queda reducido al estado de máquina de producir carne, leche o huevos.
~ Franz-Olivier Giesbert
Condensed milk is wonderful. I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans.
~ Fred Allen
When Hugo climbed out of the back, the dogs ran away yelping. Apparently they didn't require magic milk to sense that the golem meant trouble.
~ Brandon Mull
To somebody who hasn't had any milk, do you look like a guy or a cow?" Seth asked. Brunwin glared. "I mean bull," Seth amended. "A guy or a bull.
~ Brandon Mull
Drink the milk.
~ Brandon Mull
I suggested she write down her thoughts" He said, "...and, well, my daughter is a very thorough woman." "I can see that." Waxillium said. "I suggest that you never ask her to pass the milk" Wayne added under his breath, so only Waxillium could hear "She seems likely to throw a cow at you just to be certain the job is done thoroughly.
~ Brandon Sanderson
War means desperation, and desperation is our mother's milk, kid.
~ Brandon Sanderson
The calves' flesh color is very light because they're exclusively fed an iron-deficient milk replacement; their flesh is very tender because most veal calves are tethered at the neck in small stalls so they can't turn around and develop their muscles.
~ Brenda Davis
It was with some pride that she screwed the tops onto the bottles of milk. Nearly four ounces in each. She pressed the pair of bottles, warm with her milk, against her cheeks. Partway the accomplishment of an animal, partway the accomplishment of a deity.
~ Helen Phillips
No doubt you can get more in your market for a quart of milk than for a quart of blood, but that is not the market that heroes carry their blood to.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It's circumstantial evidence, like finding a trout in the milk.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The best place to use vanilla beans is anywhere where they won't be mixed in with a million other flavors. Anything with dairy, yogurt, milk, cream, or eggs - any custard or flan - how can it be bad?
~ Alex Guarnaschelli
In India, people love turmeric. They make turmeric milk, and sometimes I mix it with some cream or yogurt and turn it into a scrub. You'd be amazed at what it can take off your skin.
~ Priyanka Chopra