Partially Hardened Vegetable

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

“There was an Old Man who supposed,
That the street door was partially closed;”
—Edward Lear (1812–1888)

“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)

“There is a certain class of unbelievers who sometimes ask me such questions as, if I think that I can live on vegetable food alone; and to strike at the root of the matter at once,—for the root is faith,—I am accustomed to answer such, that I can live on board nails. If they cannot understand that, they cannot understand much that I have to say.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)