Spit

Famous quotes containing the word spit:

    He shall eat flowers,
    Chew honey and spit out gall. They shall all smile
    And love and pity him.

    His death shall be by drowning.
    Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)

    Zorba: Why do the young die? Why does anybody die?
    Basil: I don’t know.
    Zorba: What’s the use of all your damn books? If they don’t tell you that, what the hell do they tell you?
    Basil: They tell me about the agony of men who can’t answer questions like yours.
    I spit on their agony.
    Michael Cacoyannis (b. 1922)

    You don’t hit a child when you want him to stop hitting. You don’t yell at a children to get them to stop yelling. Or spit at a child to indicate that he should not spit. Of course, you want children to know how to sympathize with others and to “know how it feels,” but you ... have to show them how to act—not how not to act.
    Jeannette W. Galambos (20th century)