milk quotes

  And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Exodus 3:8.

He asked for water, and she brought him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish. She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples. At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead. The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice,Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?

-Bible (Old Testament)
Judges 5:25^8.

Ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles oftheoracles of God; and arebecomesuchas have need of milk, and not of strong meat.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Hebrews 5:12.

As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: If so be you have tasted that the Lord isgracious.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Peter 2:2.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.Healthycitizens arethegreatest asset any country can have.

- Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill
  Speech on BBC radio, 21 Mar.

And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  'Kubla Khan'.

Cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.

- Clifton Fadiman
  Any Number Can Play,'The Cheese Stands  Alone'.

Truth, Sir, is a cow, that will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  Of sceptics. Remark, 21  Jul. Quoted in  James Boswell  The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.1.

Why haven't Igot a real'home'a real lifewhyhaven't Igot a Chinesenurse with green trousers and two babies who rush at me and clasp my knees? I'm not a girlI'm a woman. I want things†all this love and joy that fights for outletand all this life drying up, like milk in an old breast.

-Beauchamp
  Letter to  John Middleton Murry, 23 Mar.

Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness.

- Herman Melville
  Ishmael. Moby Dick, ch.114.

Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning, and the first thing that I knew There was milk and toast and honey and a bowl of oranges, too. And the sun poured in like butterscotch and stuck to all my senses.

-Joni (RobertaJoan) ne  e  Anderson Mitchell
  'Chelsea Morning'.

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.

- SirJohn Clifford Mortimer
  In the Observer, 28  Jun.

Hatred is always a sin, my mother told me. Remember that.One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discoloreverything like a drop of black ink inwhite milk. I was struck by that and meant to try it, but knew I shouldn't waste the milk.

- Alice ne  e Laidlaw Munro
  The Progress of Love,'The Progress of Love'.

The cow is of the bovine ilk; One end is moo, the other, milk.

- (Frederic) Ogden Nash
Free Wheeling,'The Cow'.

Jerusalem the golden, With milk and honey blessed, Beneath thy contemplation Sink heart and voice oppressed. I know not,O I know not What joys await us there, What radiancy of glory, What light beyond compare.

-J(ames) M(ason) Neale
  'Jerusalem the Golden', translated from the original Latin of St Bernard of Cluny.

Some dish more sharply spiced than this Milk-soup men call domestic bliss.

- Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
Olympus (published1906).

Let Sporus tremble'What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk? Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?

- Alexander Pope
  Of Lord Hervey.'An Epistle to DrArbuthnot', l.305^8.

The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite.

- Carl Sandburg
Quoted in Personalia, the Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg (1970).

Gin was mother's milk to her.

- George Bernard Shaw
  Eliza, speaking of herAunt. Pygmalion, act 3.

With Mannerly Margery milk and ale.

-John Skelton
  'Mannerly Margery Milk and Ale'.

Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.

- Albert von Nagyrapolt Szent-Gyo«  rgyi
  In Science, vol.146.

Hullo, Polly, my love, can you hear the dumb goose-hiss of the wives as they huddle and peck or flounce at a Thomas waddle away? Who cuddled you when? Which of their gandering hubbies moaned in Milk Wood for your naughty mothering arms and body like a wardrobe, love?

- Dylan Marlais Thomas
  Under MilkWood.

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

- Henry David Thoreau
  Journal entry,11 Nov.

What's this flesh? A little crudded milk, fantastical puff- paste.

-John Webster
  The Duchess of Malfi, act 4, sc.2. crudded = curdled.

We milk the cow of the world, and as we do We whisper in her ear,'You are not true.'

- Richard Wilbur
  Ceremony and Other Poems,'Epistemology'.

John Bull has gone to India And all must pay him heed For histories are there to prove That none of another breed Has had a like inheritance, Or sucked such milk as he, And there's no luck about a house If it lacks honesty. The ghost of Roger Casement Is beating on the door.

-W(illiam) B(utler) Yeats
  'The Ghost of Roger Casement', stanza 3. Collected in New Poems (1938).