rice quotes

And they brought an Owl, and a useful Cart, And a pound of Rice, and a CranberryTart, And a hive of silvery Bees. And they brought a Pig, and some green Jack-daws, And a lovely Monkey with lollipop paws, and forty Bottles of Ring-Bo-Ree, And no end of Stilton Cheese.

- Edward Lear
Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and  Alphabets,'The Jumblies'.

Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in a church where a wedding has been, Lives in a dream. Waits at the window, wearing the facethat she keeps in a jar by the door, Who is it for? All the lonely people, where do they all come from?

-Paul
  'Eleanor Rigby'.

They gave us our rice bowl and we don't want it broken.

- Zhang Qian
  On the need to avoid offending the government that permitted broadcasts by Shanghai's Radio Orient. In the New YorkTimes, 26 Apr.