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Quotes About Abundance

ear. "Listen, we have our health, and a roof over our heads, food to eat, and books to read. We're doing okay, kiddo.
~ Susan Wiggs
There was a stampede to the food- panzanella with tomatoes and bread, every conceivable variety of pasta, grilled sausages, fresh fish roasted in foil, Napoleon pastries and reginatta made with creamy half-melted ice cream.
~ Susan Wiggs
She passed out plates loaded with her signature melt-away brisket crusted with the smoky candy of the fire, links she'd crafted in partnership with a sustainable ranch up near Point Reyes, butter-dipped smoked portobellos, and impossibly tender ribs smothered in her artisanal sauces. Her best sides were on display---cornbread, moist as pudding, from her mother's private recipe collection, beans and greens, peppery jicama slaw, and her signature hummingbird cake for dessert.
~ Susan Wiggs
In this life, I had all I ever wanted. Losing Erik was a sadness that knit itself into my soul, but that sadness was balanced out by all that came after. The years with you, my little girl, and with your grandfather and all the people of Bella Vista. It has been a life of abundance, and I will always be grateful for that.
~ Susan Wiggs
They each took a plate and helped themselves to a feast that looked as if it had been prepared for a magazine layout. There was a salad sprinkled with fresh flowers- Isabel said they were baby pansies, nasturtium and angelica. The spread included plates of artisan cheeses and raw and grilled vegetables, big chafing dishes of fragrant casseroles, berries and apples with a variety of sauces, an array of local wines and water from Calistoga. The abundance was almost overwhelming to Tess.
~ Susan Wiggs
A parade of servers came through with domed platters of incredible food---handmade Chinese dumplings and dim sum shaped like tiny pomegranates and tangerines, gorgeously presented noodles in every color of the rainbow, and dishes with ingredients Natalie could only guess at. A red tea called Da Hong Pao was served, and one of the people at the table said it was so rare that it couldn't be bought for any price but had to be received as a gift.
~ Susan Wiggs
There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified.
~ Joseph Stalin
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
~ Josh Billings
there is a lot more where that came from, thats just the tip of the iceberg"
~ Josh King Madrid
I spent months in research. I even dropped out of school for a time to study in the historically rich libraries of Europe. And I found evidence. Evidence in abundance. Evidence I would not have believed had I not seen it with my own eyes. Finally I could come to only one conclusion: If I were to remain intellectually honest, I had to admit that the Old and New Testament documents were some of the most reliable writings in all of antiquity.
~ Josh McDowell
The Kingdom of Summer In my mother's cellar there were realms of golden apple, rooms of purple beet, hallways of green bean leading to windows of strawberry and grape. In her cellar there were cider seas and pumpkin shores, mountains of tomatoes— pickle trees. When I walked down the steps and pulled on the light, I saw where she kept the Kingdom of Summer.
~ Joyce Sutphen
Mira: todo lo fuerte se hace, con su adorno, delicado. Más rosas, más rosas, más rosas...
~ Juan Ramón Jiménez
Had I access to what is mine, I would shower you with jewels.
~ Jude Deveraux
Yes, put it there, fill the table so there's no space left, no room for the guilt.
~ Jude Morgan
I wanted them to realized that there is enough time, enough love, and certainly enough apple pie in life ... I believed that the cause of many of the world's ills could be directly connected to greed, and that I thought it was crucial that children learn from an early age that there is enough of what they need.
~ Judith Hanson Lasater
Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one can possibly want and hold.
~ Judith Olney
Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt.
~ Judith Olney
My life has been a magnificent indulgence.
~ Dick Van Dyke
There's an abundance of exposure when you start working in American films. Inevitably you become a brand and that has to be controlled.
~ Tom Hardy
If you can make a lot more of something, you can make it much more inexpensive.
~ Mary Lou Jepsen
If you only use rich and luxurious ingredients, you end up with excess.
~ Alvin Leung
I have a living room full of clothes. It's insane.
~ Afrojack
The danger facing us comes not from lack of resources, but from people who insist that we have run out of resources. If you embrace their idea of a world where there is only so much to go around, then you are endorsing a program of genocide and a war of all against all.
~ Robert Zubrin