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“When I was sharing crumbs, the birds flew in flocks- When I needed crumbs -they all flew south”

Sharing Birds Flocks Crumbs

Author:Charmaine J Forde

“Let them not be denied a few crumbs of attention or merely a 'twinkle of happiness' if, through the insidious intrusion of reality, the unattended cannot receive a 'lease of happiness.' ("Homeless, down in the corner" )”

Reality Happiness Attention Homeless Insidious Intrusion Crumbs Lease Twinkle Unattended

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“Tea & Toast by Stewart Stafford Let me stop in this lay-by a moment, That I have tagged - Tea & Toast, A shimmering oasis frequented often, A soothing elixir one loves the most. It's as comforting as a warm bath, Enjoyed even when wracked with pain, As welcome as an old friend's smile, On thundery days of lashing rain. No matter if the tea is too sweet or burns, Greasy butter hijacked by sandpaper crumbs, There shall be no Boston Tea Party here, Our minuscule parole from routine doldrums. © Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”

Break Tea Crumbs Butter Bread And Butter Recharge Toast Coffee Break Breaktime Tea And Toast

Author:Stewart Stafford

“Past is nothing but the crumbs of a dream remained in our memory! And the future is just another short dream which is likely to happen!”

Past Future Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes Memory Past Quotes Crumbs Future Quotations Past Quotations

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Bobby just stared at me. There was already crumbs in his mustache and it was barely seven in the morning.”

Mustache Crumbs Seth Bobby

Book:Home to Woefield

Source: Home to Woefield

“In a world where poverty is a crime and where people are yearning for some crumbs of affection, they can only dance on the brim of the volcano and wait for an eruption of compassion. ("New life in Schengen")”

Compassion Poverty Crime Dance Affection Yearning Crumbs Eruption Volcano Schengen

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“The miserly night brought very little sleep, and no solutions. It shared nothing with them, keeping every crumb of light to itself.”

Light Night Sleep Solutions Nothing Beautiful Writing Crumbs Miserly

Book:Hopebreaker

Source: Hopebreaker

“So when it was my turn to start developing projects, I knew the writers I wanted to work with, and I had met every head of studio, every executive and a lot of producers. I started finding things, little crumbs off other people's tables that I would make my own.”

People Littles Wanted Turns My Own Mets Findings Projects Tables Studios Producers Developing Executives Crumbs Bread Crumbs

Author:Rupert Sanders

“There are many reasons for keeping a diary: to make a note of facts that one considers important; to open one's heart, to give vent to one's feelings, to make confessions; from the instinct of economy which sometimes encourages a writer to make good use of even the smallest crumbs of his life, so that he may have one more book to publish; or again from vanity and self- satisfaction.”

Giving Heart May Important Book Self Sometimes Reason Facts Use Feelings Economy Notes Instinct Satisfaction Vanity Confession Smallest Publish Diaries Crumbs Self-satisfaction

Author:Alberto Moravia

“The dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.”

Fall Dog Masters Tables Crumbs

Author:Matthew McConaughey

“God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me.”

Justice Bird Crumbs

Book:The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

“If I shouldn't be alive When the Robins come, Give the one in Red Cravat, A Memorial crumb.”

Ifs Life Giving Alive Red Memorial Robins Crumbs

Book:The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

“Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn; Men eat of it and die.”

Men Past Dies Food Fame Tables Cooking Culinary Farmers Ironic Guests Plates Shifting Corn Crow Fickle Crumbs

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

“All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.”

Writing Mind Fall Falling Down Our Words Crumbs Feasting

Book:The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

“Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.”

Thinking Men Should Wells May Sides Comfort Division Patriot Equity Partisans Crumbs

Book:Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

“One of the neighbors found Nasreddin scattering crumbs all around his house. "Why are you doing that?" he asked. "I'm keeping the tigers away," replied Nasreddin. "But there aren't any tigers around here," said the neighbor. "That's right," said Nasreddin. "You see how well it works?”

Wells Said Found House Neighbor Tigers Crumbs

Author:Nasreddin

“If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don't hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happened better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that's often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don't be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb.”

Source: Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

“A crumb is a great thing: If you break a crumb in half, you don't get two half-crumbs, you get two crumbs. Doesn't that violate some law of physics?”

Ifs Two Law Half Break Physics Great Things Laws Of Physics Crumbs

Author:George Carlin

“As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid - as if we'd disabled them utterly. Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?”

Ifs Men Littles Speak Walks Silent Disabled Paranoid Crumbs Power Man

Book:Fear of Fifty

Source: Fear of Fifty

“Vanity may be likened to the smooth-skinned and velvet-footed mouse, nibbling about forever in expectation of a crumb; while self-esteem is too apt to take the likeness of the huge butcher's dog, who carries off your steaks, and growls at you as be goes.”

May Self Forever Dog Self Esteem Huge Expectations Esteem Vanity Carrie Smooth Mice Steak Velvet Butchers Crumbs Nibbling

Book:Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside

Source: Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside

“Never settle for the crumbs of life.”

Settling Crumbs Never Settle

Book:Og Mandino

Source: Og Mandino

“Im sick of the foodies who need every morsel that goes into their mouth to be a Picasso painting, a Giacometti sculpture, a Proust novel, evoking the world with each crumb.”

World Needs Novel Painting Mouths Sick Sculpture Crumbs Proust

Author:Jessi Klein

“We move through the day like two hands of a clock: sometimes we overlap for a moment, then come apart again, carrying on alone. Everyday exactly the same: the tea, the burnt toast, the crumbs, the silence.”

Two Sometimes Moments Hands Moving Silence Everyday Tea Clock Toasts Crumbs Carrying On Two Hands

Book:Great House

Source: Great House

“I despise charity. It gives crumbs to a few and silences the others.”

Giving Silence Charity Despise Crumbs

Book:In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and Connection

Source: In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and Connection

“Day by day we are given not what we want but what we need. Sometimes it is a feast and sometimes...swept crumbs, but by faith we believe it is enough.”

Want Needs Believe Sometimes Enough Given Crumbs

Author:Barbara Brown Taylor

“The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.”

Knows Doe Dream Stupid Masters Labor Slavery Slave Fruit Dumb American Dream Ants Nests Robbers Crumbs Wronged Upward Mobility

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“Little I ask And that little is not granted." There are few crumbs In this world any more.”

World Littles Asks This World Charity Granted Crumbs

Author:Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

“If I associate with chickens, I will learn to scratch at the ground and squabble over crumbs. If I associate with eagles, I will learn to soar to great heights.”

Ifs Motivational Friendship Height Chickens Associates Soar Scratches Eagles Crumbs Squabbles Great Heights

Book:The Young Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions That Determine Personal Success

Source: The Young Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions That Determine Personal Success

“It's in our nature to be intrigued. We're putting the bread crumb not in your mouth but close to your mouth. You reach a little bit, and that's why it works.”

Littles Bits Little Bit Mouths Bread Intrigued Crumbs Bread Crumbs

Author:Bryan Cranston

“A man who can be happy with the crumbs of light in the dark corridors of life infinitely deserves the brightest Sun!”

Men Life Light Dark Sun Deserve Corridors Crumbs

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Writing a story I am just trying to find some little interesting thing to start out with: something small, even trivial. Preferably something that doesn't have a lot of thematic or political baggage - a little crumb that is interesting.”

Writing Trying Littles Stories Political Interesting Interesting Things Baggage Crumbs Thematic

Author:George Saunders

“I lose patience with long stories. I get people who go, "Crumb, do some long stories, do a graphic novel." Novel-schmovel.”

People Long Stories Loses Novel Graphic Crumbs Graphic Novels Long Story

Author:Robert Crumb

“When you create something you leave little crumbs of stuff that you've experienced or music that you've listened to.”

Littles Stuff Crumbs

Author:Panda Bear

“Certainly the Old Testament does not teach us that there is another life, and upon that question even the New is obscure and vague. The hunger of the heart finds only a few small and scattered crumbs. There is nothing definite, solid, and satisfying. United with the idea of immortality we find the absurdity of the resurrection. A prophecy that depends for its fulfillment upon an impossibility, cannot satisfy the brain or heart.”

Source: Miscellany

“I shall love my kind of love anyway, doggedly, for I must certainly do the best I can with my own nature and if my nature is to love too well or from afar or to be grateful for crumbs...well, so be it.”

Ifs Wells Kind I Can My Own Grateful Be Grateful Do The Best Kinds Of Love Afar Crumbs

Author:Carol Emshwiller

“Despite disappointments, the Christian is obligated to pray for the sick because we are bidden to do so and because the crumb of our caring is but a morsel broken from the whole loaf of the Father's infinite and tender love.”

Whole Christian Father Broken Praying Sick Infinite Disappointment Caring Despite Crumbs Tender Love

Book:Catherine Marshall: Inspiration Writings

Source: Catherine Marshall: Inspiration Writings

“Once munching has begun, Schopenhauer held, the human will cannot resist further munching, and the result is a universe with crumbs over everything.”

Humans Universe Results Crumbs Human Will

Book:Mere Anarchy

Source: Mere Anarchy

“Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs!”

Masters Tragedy Died Hades Crumbs Imitator

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The audience loves to figure things out. They love it when a performer leaves a trail of bread crumbs for them, and they get to participate in the comedy.”

Audience Comedy Figures Bread Performers Trails Crumbs Bread Crumbs

Author:Keegan-Michael Key

“Julia [Roberts]. She's got two kids and animals, and I think she's a night nibbler. There'd be crumbs everywhere.”

Thinking Two Kids Night Animal Julia Crumbs

Author:Richard Gere

“Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties... Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all.”

Ifs Stills Whole Purpose Given Memories Leaving Illness Stealing Certainty Ease Each Day Shocking Starving Crumbs No Memory

Author:Elisabeth Tova Bailey

“I never sold drugs. A lot of people used to think I was that dude but I never sold a crumb. I used to always be upset with that.”

People Thinking Used Drug Upset Crumbs

Author:Rakim

“I'm one dude and when I make my bed I lay in it but don't stereotype me. Never sold a crumb to this day and I don't do nothing on the side.”

Sides Bed Lays This Day Stereotype Crumbs

Author:Rakim

“Most of [ the Negro leaders] who - who, whose existence or whose position of leadership depends upon the - on the subsidy or crumbs for - the crumbs from the white man's table, will only say what that white man wants to hear. When they get behind the door they talk a different language.”

Men Want Different Language White Behinds Existence Leader Doors Position Depends Tables White Man Subsidies Crumbs Different Languages

Author:Malcolm X

“In our case [the United States] it happens to be basically corporate structure. Much of the population is going to be harmed by that. Those policies are designed to turn state power into an instrument that works for the wealthy. Maybe there are some crumbs for the rest of the population, maybe not. But that's given.”

States Happens Turns Given United Cases United States Policy Instruments Structure Population Corporate Wealthy Crumbs

Author:Noam Chomsky

“You could go crazy thinking of how unprivate our lives really are - the omnipresent security cameras, the tracking data on our very smart phones, the porous state of our Internet selves, the trail of electronic crumbs we leave every day.”

Thinking Self States Our Lives Crazy Security Internet Smart Cameras Phones Data Trails Very Smart Crumbs Tracking

Author:Susan Orlean

“I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.”

Want Compassion Rights Masters Tables Human Rights Thrown Not Interested Equal Rights Menus Individual Rights Crumbs

Author:Desmond Tutu

“I hate homework. I hate it more now than I did when I was the one lugging textbooks and binders back and forth from school. The hour my children are seated at the kitchen table, their books spread out before them, the crumbs of their after-school snack littering the table, is without a doubt the worst hour of my day.”

Children Book School Hate Hours Doubt Worst I Hate Tables Spread My Children Kitchen Back And Forth Homework Textbooks Snacks Crumbs After School Kitchen Table Binders Littering

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!”

May Bits Graves Cheese Fragments Potatoes Beef Spooky Crumbs Mustard Gravy Scrooge Christmas Carol

Author:Charles Dickens

“Gogol is unaccustomed to this sort of talk at mealtimes, to the indulgent ritual of the lingering meal, and the pleasant aftermath of bottles and crumbs and empty glasses that clutter the table.”

Empty Tables Glasses Meals Pleasant Bottles Ritual Clutter Aftermath Lingering Crumbs Gogol

Book:The Namesake: A Novel

Source: The Namesake: A Novel