Partially Hardened Vegetable

Famous quotes containing the words partially, hardened and/or vegetable:

    “Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.”
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    “A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.”
    —Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

    “They have been waiting for us in a foetor
    Of vegetable sweat since civil war days,
    Since the gravel-crunching, interminable departure
    Of the expropriated mycologist.”
    —Derek Mahon (b. 1941)