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)

    “To stand on common ground
    here and there gritty with pebbles
    yet elsewhere ‘fine and mellow—
    uncommon fine for ploughing’
    there to labor
    planting the vegetable words”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)