#toes

They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach. ↗

— Luigi Barzini

#chefs #composed #dainty #deserted #devour

I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#fingers #hard #i #kids #like

I came face-to-face with a gorilla which was quite good, but it was a 10-hour trek in bad weather, up hills, covered in mud, with mosquitoes everywhere and when we got there the gorilla's just sat there doing nowt. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#bad weather #came #covered #doing #everywhere

Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before. ↗

— Luigi Barzini

#become #before #deadly #extremely #food

I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place. ↗

— Xun Zi

#could #distance #far #farther #found

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton. ↗

— Dorothy Malone

#cotton #dusty #get #horses #i

The abolition of slavery, apart from preservation of the Union, was the most important result of our Civil War. But the transition was badly handled. Slaves were simply declared free and then left to their own devises. Southern Negroes, powerless, continued to be underprivileged in education, medical care, job opportunities and political status. ↗

— William Silverman

#black-history #racism-in-the-west #education

We should not rely on our feelings; we had to walk by faith and not by sight. If we preserve in the Lord, we always succeed. ↗

— Angus Buchan

#faith

Peter Marshall, the great evangelical preacher, once said that we need "faith like potatoes" - plain, simple, real faith that will sustain us in our everyday lives. Whenever I pick up a potato I remember those words. That's the kind of faith I want. When we have faith and act on it, God will come through for us, no matter what our circumstances. God is King! ↗

— Angus Buchan

#faith

I had a choice: I could believe the lies of the devil, in which case I was on my way to suicide, or I could believe in the promises of God, and be taken through my time of trial. ↗

— Angus Buchan

#faith