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Quotes About Grub

My bag is always filled with food.
~ Toni Garrn
'Mullygrubber' is an Australian term which means something that creeps along the ground; it's like a little grub.
~ Richie Benaud
Everything that Mr Smallweed's grandfather ever put away in his mind was a grub at first, and is a grub at last. In all his life he has never bred a single butterfly.
~ Charles Dickens
When I sleep, which isn't very often—even with the tablets—I get right down under the sheets, pulling them over my head. The air gets a bit stale but I feel safer, more secure, doing that. It's my white cocoon where I can be a caterpillar, a grub, never to turn into a butterfly or even a moth. It's the safest place I know. It's the only time and the only place where I can feel some peace.
~ John Marsden
Keller: You've got a business here, what the hell is this? Chris: The business! The business doesn't inspire me. Keller: Must you be inspired? Chris: Yes. I like it an hour a day. If I have to grub for money all day long at least at evening I want it beautiful. I want a family, I want some kids, I want to build something I can give myself to. Annie is in the middle of that.
~ Arthur Miller
For me the best food in the world is New British. It's quite classical cooking with really simple but good-quality ingredients. I also like top-end restaurants and pub grub done well.
~ Prue Leith
I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar.
~ Robert Wyatt
No man knows, when that Presidential grub gets to gnawing at him, just how deep it will get until he has tried it;
~ Bruce Catton
I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be - that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Maisie]:...going out for luncheon with a gentleman is definitely not the same as going out to dine in the evening. [Billy]: You get more grub at dinner, for a start -
~ Jacqueline Winspear
On every stem, on every leaf ... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes