Milk And Honey Quotes:

If others hurl their darts against you, offer them milk and honey in return; if they poison your lives, sweeten their souls.

- Abdu'l-Bahá

topic: Milk And Honey, Soul, Poison, Darts

Jerusalem the Golden, With milk and honey blest, eneath thy contemplation Sink heart and voice oppressed.

- John Mason Neale

source: "Collected Hymns, Sequences and Carols of John Mason Neale".

topic: Blessed, Heart, Milk And Honey

Faith is like porridge. Better with milk and honey.

- George R. R. Martin

source: George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.2829, Bantam

topic: Milk And Honey, Honey, Milk, Porridge

Instead of passing blithely over into that Promised Land, flowing almost literally with milk and honey, it may be our destiny to wander a full 40 years or more in the wilderness of doubt and divided sentiments.

- Benjamin Graham

source: "Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham, Part I, Chapter I, The Changing Role of Surplus Stocks, p. 4, 1937.

topic: Destiny, Milk And Honey, Years

The vision of milk and honey, it comes and goes. But the odor of cooking goes on forever.

- E. B. White

topic: Milk And Honey, Forever, Cooking

The land of milk and honey, they say it is the land of money.

- Bob Dylan

source: Bob Dylan (2013). “Lyrics:1962-2012”, p.778, Simon and Schuster

topic: Milk And Honey, Land, Politics

In the valley of the giants where the stars and stripes explode, the peaches they were sweet and the milk and honey flowed.

- Bob Dylan

source: Song: Angelina

topic: Sweet, Stars, Milk And Honey

Even when I went to America I didn't work for four years. It wasn't like I came to New York and it was the land of milk and honey. It was just as much of a hard graft. But there's a lot more opportunity nowadays across the board for actors, no matter what color you are, with the Internet and small productions.

- Idris Elba

source: "Idris Elba, No Stringers Attached". Interview By Amy Chozick, www.nytimes.com. September 5, 2014.

topic: New York, Opportunity, Milk And Honey

I said, 'Oh, I know. If the white folks is in Heaven too, then the black angels were in the kitchen, preparing the milk and honey.'

- Muhammad Ali

source: "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

topic: Angel, Milk And Honey, White

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Love, Life, Boyfriend, Inspirational Flower, Inspirational True Love

There is no food more satiating than milk and honey; and just as such foods produce disgust for the palate, so perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.

- Pietro Aretino

source: Pietro Aretino (1926). “The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix”

topic: Ears, Honey, Milk, Milk And Honey

May this marriage be blessed.May this marriage be as sweet as milk and honey.May this marriage be as intoxicating as old wine.May this marriage be fruitful like a date tree.May this marriage be full of laughter and everyday a paradise.May this marriage be a seal of compassion for here and hereafter.May this marriage be as welcome as the full moon in the night sky.Listen lovers, now you go on, as I become silent and kiss this blessed night.

- Rumi

topic: Love, Sweet, Laughter, Seals, Wedding Blessings

In a world of smoke and ashes, you are milk and honey

- India.Arie

topic: Ashes, World, Honey, Milk And Honey

Under various names, I have praised only you, rivers! You are milk and honey and love and death and dance. From a spring in hidden grottoes, seeping from mossy rocks, Where a goddess pours live water from a pitcher, At clear streams in the meadow, where rills murmur underground, Your race and my race begin, and amazement, and quick passage.

- Czeslaw Milosz

source: "Hymn of the Pearl". Book by Czeslaw Milosz, 1981.

topic: Spring, Race, Rocks, Milk And Honey

Any land will flow with milk and honey if it is worked with honest hands!

- Rudolfo Anaya

source: Rudolfo A. Anaya (1972). “Bless Me, Ultima: A Novel”, Tqs Publications

topic: Hands, Land, Honey, Milk And Honey

The trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk and honey but not with sufficient water, rich in rocks and sand dunes but poor in natural resources and vital raw materials, has been no easy task: Indeed, practical men, with their eyes fixed upon things as they are, regarded it as an empty and insubstantial utopian dream.

- David Ben-Gurion

topic: Dream, Country, Eye, Easy Tasks, Utopian

I wish to see the sons and daughters of the world in Peace and busily employed in the more agreeable amusement of fulfilling the first and great commandment, Increase and Multiply : as an encouragement to which we have opened the fertile plains of the Ohio to the poor, the needy and the oppressed of the Earth; any one therefore who is heavy laden, or who wants land to cultivate, may repair thither and abound, as in the Land of promise, with milk and honey: the ways are preparing, and the roads will be made easy, thro' the channels of Potomac and James river.

- George Washington

topic: Daughter, Encouragement, Son, Milk And Honey

You risked your life, but what else have you ever risked? Have you risked disapproval? Have you ever risked economic security? Have you ever risked a belief? I see nothing particularly courageous about risking one's life. So you lose it, you go to your hero's heaven and everything is milk and honey 'til the end of time. Right? You get your reward and suffer no earthly consequences. That's not courage. Real courage is risking something that might force you to rethink your thoughts and suffer change and stretch consciousness. Real courage is risking one's clichés.

- Tom Robbins

topic: Real, Hero, Heaven, Still Life With Woodpecker, Economic Security

blackmail. The age-old path to the land of milk and honey. The one sure way of being paid for doing nothing.

- Ursula Curtiss

topic: Land, Age, Honey, Blackmail, Milk And Honey

If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves; or there would be wars, massacres, and murders; so that in the end mankind would inflict more suffering on itself than it has now to accept at the hands of Nature.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: War, Men, Land, Milk And Honey

When we are going to enter the water ... in the presence of the congregation and under the hand of the president, we solemnly profess that we disown the devil, his pomp, and his angels. After this we are immersed three times, making a somewhat larger pledge than the Lord appointed in the Gospel. Then we are taken up [a reference to the Roman tradition of recognizing a newborn baby as a member of the family]. We first taste a mixture of milk and honey and from that day we refrain from the daily bath for a whole week.

- Tertullian

topic: Baby, Taken, Angel, Milk And Honey

O happy, golden age! Not for that rivers ran With streams of milk, and honey dropped from trees

- Torquato Tasso

topic: Rivers, Tree, Age, Golden Age, Milk And Honey

Lotus-land as it appears in 'Free Will' is simply a metaphor for an idealized background, a 'land of milk and honey.' It is sometimes also used as a pejorative name for Los Angeles, though that was not in my mind when I wrote it.

- Neil Peart

topic: Land, Names, Mind, Milk And Honey

When I was living in Los Angeles, I always booked a moisturizing milk-and-honey massage the day before flying to Spain. It was heaven - I never got dry plane skin or felt stiff from sitting in one position.

- Carolina Herrera

topic: Heaven, Flying, Skins, Milk And Honey