Quotes About Straw

Some twenty straw piles from mine slept the writer Walter Hasenclever, one of the founders of German expressionism.

There once was a miller with a daughter as lovely as a grape. He told the king that she could spin gold out of common straw. The king summoned the girl and locked her in a room full of straw and told her to spin it into gold or she would die like a criminal. Poor grape with no one to pick. Luscious and round and sleek. Poor thing. To die and never see Brooklyn. (Rumpelstiltskin)

It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy straw.

Turkey in the straw, turkey in the hay,Roll 'em up and twist 'em up a high tuckahaw,And hit 'em up a tune called Turkey in the Straw.

Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick.

That's what cousin Mark says. We are going to send the twins to the kindergarten next month." "What's the kindergarten?" "Oh, they teach them to make things out of straw and toothpicks—kind of a play place to keep them off the street." "There's one up on Sacramento Street, not far from Polk Street. I saw the sign.

Nothing of the kind; they do all these things in their houses and sheds, with common charcoal fires, and a quantity of straw to stop up the crevices in the doors and windows.

I was an ugly kid. My mother breast-fed me through a straw.

It was as though her soul were neatly removed by a drinking straw and siphoned into the green pool of quiet that lay beneath the rippling cascade of notes.

to sheer numbers, the North would have won again. Moses then proposed "Turkey in the Straw.

You can't blame a match for a house made of straw

After all, it is a good thing to laugh…and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.

Who would guess," he teased, "that I'd ever see you on a rooftop with straw in your hair?" Kit giggled. "Are you saying I've turned into a crow?" "Not exactly." His eyes were intensely blue with merriment. "I can still see the green feathers if I look hard enough. But they've done their best to make you into a sparrow, haven't they?

Hay's for horses, straw is cheaper, grass is free, you live on a farm and you get all three!

The white ghost knew what all these horsemen meant; he knew what was expected of him that day; but he knew that is body ached, that his throat was dry, and that the rolling stubble called but faintly to him. The day before he had eaten a piece of tainted meat no bigger than a lump of sugar, and now it was better to lie quietly I the soft straw then to pit one's speed and nose against another over those long, long miles.

The hero wasn't me, any more than the villain was Harry McLauglin, forty-year-old forest ranger and father of two. We were just the matrices that held the pattern, the straw and clay from which myth was built. And now that we are only straw and clay again, the world does not know what to do with us.

I assure you, my good Lestrade, that I have an excellent reason for everything that I do. You may possibly remember that you chaffed me a little, some hours ago, when the sun seemed on your side of the hedge, so you must not grudge me a little pomp and ceremony now. Might I ask you, Watson, to open that window, and then to put a match to the edge of the straw?

The king greeted the document (the Collectanea) not so much as a drowning man greets a straw but as he might a rescue party from outer space.

It must be inconvenient to be made of flesh, for you must sleep and eat and drink. Those are three things that a straw man need not worry about.

floor is bare, there are no cushions or straw, and when I ask Indigo why this is Lucifer interrupts to inform me that since this is the ops room, furniture would be inappropriate. "Also, people used to fight over the cushions," whispers Indigo.

But straw men are easier to knock down than real arguments.

I compare a lot of life to looking at a map through a straw. The less ability you have to see life in a humorous way, the smaller the straw is that you're looking at the map of life. You're not looking at the whole picture. You can't see the whole topography without it, and it can help you to make better choices.

Bono, the lead singer of U2, said: "The idea that there's a force of love and logic behind the universe is overwhelming to start with…. But the idea that that same love and logic would choose to describe itself as a baby born in…straw and poverty is genius, and brings me to my knees, literally…. I am just in awe of that…. It's the thing that makes me a believer.

Nature has its own hardships, but its own kindnesses, too, like straw and room to sleep and the are of a mother for her young.