Sweet

Famous quotes containing the word sweet:

“Truth and kindness in sweet embrace,
Righteousness and peace are God’s grace;
For truth out of the earth does spring,
And righteousness from heaven ring.”
—Faye T. Bresler (b. 1959)

“I have no doubt that they lived pretty much the same sort of life in the Homeric age, for men have always thought more of eating than of fighting; then, as now, their minds ran chiefly on the “hot bread and sweet cakes;” and the fur and lumber trade is an old story to Asia and Europe.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“And pray what more can a reasonable man desire, in peaceful times, in ordinary noons, than a sufficient number of ears of green sweet corn boiled, with the addition of salt?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)