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Quotes About Milk

that prejudice in favor of milk with which we blindly begin, is a type of the way body and soul must get nourished at least for a time. The best introduction to astronomy is to think of the nightly heavens as a little lot of stars belonging to one's own homestead.
~ George Eliot
I'm brilliant at cooking my stepmother's scrambled egg recipe. The secret is to put eggs, butter, milk, and seasoning together in the saucepan, and to keep stirring with a wooden spoon under a low heat until the preferred consistency is reached.
~ Ian Mckellen
My primary school teacher once poured a bottle of curdled school milk forcefully down my throat. Then I threw it up all over her suede shoes. I'd rather have drunk from the spittoon in Barney's barber shop.
~ Paul O'Grady
Once when I was making a picture in Hollywood, one of the directors who was a health addict was always trying to got me to eat organic bread, tiger milk and yoghurt, I must say the only thing I liked was the strawberry yoghurt.
~ Joey Heatherton
Cows are the leading source of hamburger meat in America. Dairy cows are very lean because they put everything into producing milk, so they make good lean ground meat.
~ Mark Kurlansky
It is the presence of salt throughout France, along with either cows, goats, or sheep, that has made it the notoriously ungovernable land of 265 kinds of cheese. French cheese makers were trying to be neither difficult nor original. They were all trying to preserve milk in salt so they could have a way of keeping it as a food supply. But with different traditions and climates, the salted curds came out 265 different ways. At one time, there were probably more variations than that.
~ Mark Kurlansky
Our galaxy is called the Milky Way, and both it and the word "galaxy" have their origins in the Greek word for milk, gala.
~ Mark Kurlansky
Humans are the only mammals that consume milk past weaning, apparently in defiance of a basic rule of nature.
~ Mark Kurlansky
How wicked, my brothers, innocent milk must always seem to me now.
~ Anthony Burgess
I had a very simple life growing up in the farm country outside of Perugia, and biscotti and warm milk with a tiny bit of coffee were a big part of my morning ritual before walking to school.
~ Brunello Cucinelli
It was spring when it happened and the schoolroom windows were open all day long, and every afternoon after Billy left we had milk from little waxy cartons and Mrs. Jansma would read us chapters from a wonderful book about some children in England that had a bed that took them places at night.
~ Ellen Gilchrist
This suggests that Palestine already had begun to suffer the soil erosion that during the centuries of Arab cultivation reduced it from the one-time land of milk and honey to a stony goat pasture. Saewulf
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
I really like milk. I'm a dairy queen.
~ Melanie Martinez
Even if you were to start drinking milk during adolescence in an attempt to bolster peak bone mass, it probably wouldn't reduce your chances of fracture later in life.
~ Michael Greger
All European food in Burma is more or less disgusting—the bread is spongy stuff leavened with palm-toddy and tasting like a penny bun gone wrong, the butter comes out of a tin, and so does the milk, unless it is the grey watery catlap of the dudh-wallah.
~ George Orwell
Cream is actually tiny globules of fat held inside delicate membranes suspended in water - just like milk, only there are more globules.
~ Rick Stein
Tea has always been a big thing in my life. And I'm not talking about Liptons with lemon or iced tea, or any of that nonsense. Has to be hot PG Tips with milk.
~ Paul Rudd
A small girl became increasingly paralysed by her parents' frequently violent rows. Sometimes she would spend hours standing completely still in the toilet, simply because that was where she happened to be when the fight began. Finally, in moments of calm, she would take bottles of milk from the fridge or doorstep and leave them in places where she may later become trapped. Her parents were unable to understand why they found bottles of sour milk in every room in the house.
~ Sarah Kane
Said the reeve to the maid who was fresh to the farm 'Let me show you the beasts of the yard!' Here's a cow that gives milk, and a pig that's for ham Here's a cur and a goat and a lamb; Here's a horse tall and proud, and a well-trained old hawk, But the thing you should see is this excellent cock!
~ Scott Lynch
Q: What do you call an epileptic holding a glass of milk? A: Milkshake.
~ Scott McNeely
Q: What kind of bees give you milk? A: Boobees.
~ Scott McNeely
Q: What do you call a cow that won't give milk? A: An udder failure.
~ Scott McNeely
Q: What do you call a cow that won't give milk? A: A milk dud.
~ Scott McNeely
Q: What do you get when you cross a cow and a duck? A: Milk and quackers.
~ Scott McNeely