Devouring Quotes - page 3

Lovingly facing the "one is everything” amor dei, happy from comprehension- Take off your shoes! That three times holy land- -Yet secretly beneath this love, devouring, A fire of revenge was shimmering, The Jewish God devoured by Jewish hatred . . . Hermit! Have I recognized you? (Baruch Spinoza)
Cannibals are devouring senators. View quote
Arlen Specter
Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country. View quote
Oswald Spengler
It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes, we have never been less certain about what is ahead of us. View quote
Eric Hoffer
O what devouring kisses (multiplied) What pretty whimperings, did the grove repeat! What flattering force! What anger which did chide Itself, and laughed when it began to threat! What more than this the blushing Morning spied, And Venus (adding hers to the Noon's heat) Is better tried, than guessed, I must confess: But those who cannot try it, let them guess. View quote
Luís de Camões
What's not devoured by Time's devouring hand? Where's Troy, and where's the Maypole in the Strand? View quote
James Bramston
I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness. View quote
Dan Brown
I didn't understand then that I was living between two strains of Jewish social identity: the Jew as radical visionary and activist who understands oppression firsthand, and the Jew as part of America's devouring plan in which the persecuted, called to assimilation, learn that the price is to engage in persecution. View quote
Adrienne Rich
I am glad to find you persist so heroically in a mode of living, which you will one day or other find to have been of essential service both to your body and mind, by preserving health and a good conscience, neither of which you could possibly have, if you addicted yourself to the unnatural and diabolical practice of devouring your fellow creatures, as pigs and geese undoubtedly are ... I am to signify to you that eggs are henceforward to be considered as animal food, and, consequently prohibited to be eaten. View quote
Joseph Ritson