#swallow

Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#banned #because #been #bees #disappeared

How did you keep this by you?" Grey demanded abruptly. "You were searched to the skin when you were brought back." The wide mouth curved slightly in the first genuine smile Grey had seen. "I swallowed it," Fraser said. Grey's hand closed convulsively on the sapphire. He opened his hand and rather gingerly set the gleaming blue thing on the table by the chess piece. "I see," he said. "I'm sure you do, Major," said Fraser, with a gravity that merely made the glint of amusement in his eyes more pronounced. "A diet of rough parritch has its advantages, now and again. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#john-grey #sapphire #swallowed #diet

Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#countries #destructive #dozen #empire #expanding

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy. ↗

— Aristotle

#day #does #happy #make #man

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#chewed #digested #few #others #some

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside. ↗

— Pearl Bailey

#either #good #inside #knowledge #life

I admit to drinking it, but I did not swallow. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#did #drinking #i #swallow

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#gradually #habit #homey #i #i came

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball. ↗

— Bill Veeck

#bat #harbinger #returning #sound #spring

Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it. ↗

— Joe Paterno

#like #poison #publicity #swallow #unless