"Half of the receipts in our cookbooks are mere murder to such constitutions and stomachs as we grow here. ...in America, owing to our brighter skies and more fervid climate, we have developed an acute, nervous delicacy of temperament far more akin to that of France than of England."

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Source : Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “American Woman's Home”, p.190, Applewood Books

Catharine Beecher

#Sky Quotes #America Quotes #Climate Quotes

“You know how sometimes you lie in bed at night and think, â€œWhat if the law of gravity just wears out and lets go and I drift into space?â€ Does that ever make you anxious?”
“The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate.”
“No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.”
“My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first scene somebody shoots somebody and then everybody makes phone calls.'”
“One way of preventing disease is worth fifty ways of curing it.”
“I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it became apparent that we were on the edge, all the Great Powers would call a halt and recoil from the abyss.”

Source : "Twenty-Five Years: 1892-1916". Book by Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, 1925.
“To me, the moment you're talking about nonfiction you're talking about reality.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“Only those things the heart believes are true.”

Source : Vincent Starrett (2016). “The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes [Revised Edition]”, p.67, Pickle Partners Publishing

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