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)

    “It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons.”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)