Famous quotes containing the words raw and/or egg:
“In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of our classical dictionary.... We moderns, on the other hand, collect only the raw materials of biography and history, “memoirs to serve for a history,” which is but materials to serve for a mythology.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Better half an egg than an empty eggshell.”
—Estonian. Trans. by Ilse Lehiste (1993)