Twelve Trials

Famous quotes containing the words twelve and/or trials:

“Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is a 300-pound blocking back who has been splitting firewood nonstop for the last twelve hours on a subzero day in Manitoba.”
—Julia Child (b. 1912)

“Without trials and tribulations, no one can become a Buddha.”
—Chinese proverb.