Eaten

Famous quotes containing the word eaten:

“...I am who I am because I’m a black female.... When I was health director in Arkansas ... I could talk about teen-age pregnancy, about poverty, ignorance and enslavement and how the white power structure had imposed it—only because I was a black female. I mean, black people would have eaten up a white male who said what I did.”
—Joycelyn Elders (b. 1933)

“Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”
—Bible: Hebrew Proverbs, 9:17.

Speech of “a foolish woman” to “him that wanteth understanding.”

“I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing. That’s the true industry for poets. It is the only trade I have learned.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)