Partially Hardened Vegetable

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

    “He who gives himself entirely to his fellow-men appears to them useless and selfish; but he who gives himself partially to them is pronounced a benefactor and philanthropist.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “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)