Sugar Quotes
40 quotes
"My I love you was a measured response, like one gallon of coffee in one cup of sugar. It was just overflowing with an awakening of my soul."
"Love is something to be treated with awe. Or should it be aww? People don’t know my capacity for love. If you tried to bottle it up, I’m sure it would take at least three thermoses to contain it. And if it did get contained, would you drink my love black, or would you add cream and sugar?"
"I let coffee drip into my mouth the same way I fall in love—slowly, as I wring out my shirt before going to scrub off the 32-ounce spill. I’m as romantic as a free-refill station that’s out of sugar, cream, and stirring sticks."
"My coffee gets increasingly better the more I drink and the closer I come to the bottom of the cup, where all the sugar is. I wonder if life is the same way as we approach the end."
"Never forget,' says Sugar Daddy, 'we are a nation built on sugar. It is our history and it is the source of our prosperity, now and in the future.'This is true. Our entire nation sits on reclaimed land made from sugar. Ours is an island that rose out of the sea, built on a hard core of toffee."
"She pulls me further down. More trapped souls reach out to us, dressed in clothes from decades past. The girl ignores them as we descend along the timeline – decade by decade – towards the birth of the island."
"Although they probably know that some children were used and some children are used as miners, most adults are ignorant of the chocolate industry’s use of minors."
"More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting a pig to be spotless after hosing it down while it was still rolling in mud."
"Some people who have been working out regularly for months or even years are still out of shape because the number of cheat days they have in a week exceeds six."
"Neither sugar nor salt tastes particularly good by itself. Each is at its best when used to season other things. Love is the same way. Use it to "season" people."
"One of the leading causes of obesity is the misbelief that, when it comes to juice, ‘100%’ means ‘sugar-free."
"When it comes to things such as sugar and rice, most people believe that brown is superior to white. But when it comes to human beings, they believe that the opposite is true."
"Too much alleged ‘fantasy’ is just empty sugar, life with the crusts cut off."
"Good lord, what have I gotten myself into?"
"Perhaps there had been joy for them in finding that sugar could be made from blood."
"She pours sugar on her life and drinks the artist’s marrow in the bone of her glass and she lives."
"The reason why salt and sugar are known to be sweet is that they season other things. Care to share and dare to do it every day!"
"The problem is not in the sugar when it tastes bitter, the problem is with the tongue."
"Not every dream grows on every land, so you got to watch out! “Sugar cane” dreams should find the environment where there is flooding of great ideas from great people. It will die off if it is planted at the place where the drought of discouragement is a well cherished culture!"
"I hope when people ask what you're going to do with your English degree and/or creative writing degree you'll say: 'Continue my bookish examination of the contradictions and complexities of human motivation and desire;' or maybe just: 'Carry it with me, as I do everything that matters.'And then smile very serenely until they say, 'Oh."
Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
"A man should be more original than a bouquet of roses and a box of chocolates. Flowers die and sugar sticks to your hips like a permanent record to a criminal."
"The processed food industry hijacked our palates by using three highly addictive weapons -- sugar, salt and wheat."
"When you find yourself pushing through and using caffeine or sugar to keep going, this is the time to listen to your innate ultradian rhythm and take a rest."
Candess M. Campbell, 12 Weeks to Self-Healing: Transforming Pain Through Energy Medicine
"Blueberries, strawberries and blackberries are true super foods. Naturally sweet and juicy, berries are low in sugar and high in nutrients - they are among the best foods you can eat."
"I try to not eat as much sugar, but it's so hard in our American diet to do that... It's hard to completely avoid."
"If a patient became sugar-free and blood sugar normal on a basal requirement diet, the caloric intake was gradually increased until sugar appeared in the urine. The tolerance was thus ascertained."
"A diet that is high in fat, sugar and salt makes it really hard for a body to function efficiently."
"There is honey in this land sweeter than any I know of, and I have cut cane in places where the dirt itself tasted like sugar, so that's saying a heap."
"When I was a little kid I had a very different meaning of life; simple like a cup of tea with sugar and a piece of cake, today the whole world doesn’t give me that life."
"Writing lets you be, say, and do anything. It's sugar for your ego and wings for your ideas."
"Just about every available female--and some unavailable--seemed to think the way to his heart was through his blood sugar levels."
"The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary."
"The optimist sees the doughnut but the pessimist see 452 calories and a shed load of sugar ..."
James Minter, The Hole Opportunity - Bronze Winner for Adult Fiction, Wishing Shelf Book Awards 2013
"I opened my mouth to tell her that everything would be okay, but the words melted like sugar on my tongue-sweet yet insubstantial."
"In high school, I once sang 'Let's Get It On' and 'Brown Sugar' with a band that included my English teacher and my math teacher."
"My food demons are Chinese food, sugar, butter."
"Taking in too much added sugar from highly marketed sugary foods and drinks displaces healthier foods in the diet."
"I was definitely one of those people who fell for the fat-free cookies and chips that are loaded with sugar and calories."
"I think we have to understand that sugar is an essential component of food it's just that sugar in excess is an inappropriate and unhelpful diet."
"When I was younger, on weekends, my mom would make us pancakes with our initials on them and then a tiny cup of coffee. I remember at 10 sneaking my own coffee and pouring a ton of sugar in and going up to the playroom and drinking it."