Quotes about sugar

A collection of quotes on the topic of sugar, likeness, doing, use.

Quotes about sugar

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“Look at me, see if I am poor, or my people either. The whites may get me at last, as you say, but I will have good times till then. You are fools to make yourselves slaves to a piece of fat bacon, some hard-tack, and a little sugar and coffee.”

Sitting Bull (1831–1890) Hunkpapa Lakota medicine man and holy man

Also told to Charles Larpenteur at Fort Union in 1867. Published in Utley, Robert M. The Lance and the Shield. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1993. p. 73.

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“I eat only white foods: eggs, sugar, grated bones, the fat of dead animals; veal, salt, coconut, chicken cooked in white water; fruit mold, rice, turnips; camphorated sausage, dough, cheese (white), cotton salad, and certain fish (skinless).”

Erik Satie (1866–1925) French composer and pianist

Quoted by Rollo H. Myers (1968). Erik Satie, p.135. New York: Dover.
See also Socrate for the context of this quote.
General quotes

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“The problems are dissolved in the actual sense of the word — like a lump of sugar in water.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher

Source: 1930s-1951, Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951 (1993), Ch. 9 : Philosophy, p. 183

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“Sweet as sugar, hard as ice. hurt me once, I'll kill you twice.”

Jeffree Star (1985) American singer-songwriter, make-up artist, fashion designer, internet personality and model

https://twitter.com/jeffreestar/status/234868493437247489

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“Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?”

Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.

A comment he made in persuading John Sculley to become Apple's CEO, as quoted in Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple: A Journey of Adventure, Ideas, and the Future (1987) by John Sculley and John A. Byrne
1980s

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“When I think of the people who have been there, and the people I grew up admiring - the likes of Muhammad Ali, Rocky Marciano, Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Leonard… it's just incredible that I'm in the same sort of club.”

Barry McGuigan (1961) Irish-British boxer

After being inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4160837.stm

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“With rebellion thus sugar coated they have been drugging the public mind of their section for more than thirty years, and until at length they have brought many good men to a willingness to take up arms against the Government the day after some assemblage of men have enacted the farcical pretense of taking their State out of the Union who could have been brought to no such thing the day before”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

1860s, Fourth of July Address to Congress (1861)
Context: It might seem at first thought to be of little difference whether the present movement at the South be called "secession" or "rebellion." The movers, however, well understand the difference. At the beginning they knew they could never raise their treason to any respectable magnitude by any name which implies violation of law. They knew their people possessed as much of moral sense, as much of devotion to law and order, and as much pride in and reverence for the history and Government of their common country as any other civilized and patriotic people. They knew they could make no advancement directly in the teeth of these strong and noble sentiments. Accordingly, they commenced by an insidious debauching of the public mind. They invented an ingenious sophism, which, if conceded, was followed by perfectly logical steps through all the incidents to the complete destruction of the Union. The sophism itself is that any State of the Union may consistently with the National Constitution, and therefore lawfully and peacefully, withdraw from the Union without the consent of the Union or of any other State. The little disguise that the supposed right is to be exercised only for just cause, themselves to be the sole judge of its justice, is too thin to merit any notice. With rebellion thus sugar coated they have been drugging the public mind of their section for more than thirty years, and until at length they have brought many good men to a willingness to take up arms against the Government the day after some assemblage of men have enacted the farcical pretense of taking their State out of the Union who could have been brought to no such thing the day before.

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“I was having dinner at a restaurant in Miami, and when the waiter offered me coffee, he asked me if I took it with or without sugar…I said, ‘Chico, you’re Cuban. How can you even ask that? With sugar!’”

Celia Cruz (1925–2003) Cuban singer (1925-2003)

On the origin of her catchphrase "Azúcar"; from a 2000 interview quoted in “Celia Cruz, 77; Queen of Salsa’s Passing Marks the End of a Musical Era” https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-jul-17-me-cruz17-story.html in Los Angeles Times (2003 Jul 17).

The quote is discussed in Why Did Celia Cruz Say, "Azúcar"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaHb_ms1YkAWhy in the Smithsonian Music Channel.

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“I give you bitter pills, in a sugar coating. The pills are harmless - the poison's in the sugar”

James St. James (1966) American writer

Source: Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland

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“Want a sugar cube?" he asks in his old seductive voice.”

Source: Mockingjay

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“As one, the shapechangers turned and looked at me. I wondered what they'd do if I asked to borrow a cup of sugar.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bites

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“Leppard’s “Pour Some Sugar on Me.” More like pour some penicillin”

Alafair Burke (1969) American novelist and legal scholar

All Day and a Night

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“She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.”

Source: We Were Liars

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“The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee, and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.”

John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937) American business magnate and philanthropist

Attributed in How to Win Friends and Influence People (1937) by Dale Carnegie

“Aha," Andrea said. "I'm going to ignore that you just referred to yourself as 'sugar woogums'.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Slays

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“Beauty isn't made of sugar.”

Source: The Game

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“Sugar and caffeine. My willpower crumbled.”

Source: The Lightning Thief

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“[Colin to Sugar Beth] I put my heart on every page.”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer

Source: Ain't She Sweet

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“The Music was like Electric Sugar”

Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor
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“Give me some sugar.”

Rachel Gibson (1961) American writer

Source: Simply Irresistible

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“red hair is caused by sugar and lust.”

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker

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“We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.”

Speech before Joint Session of the Canadian Parliament, Ottawa (December 30, 1941)
The Yale Book of Quotations, ed. Fred R. Shapiro, Yale University Press (2006), p. 153 ISBN 0300107986
The Second World War (1939–1945)

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“Curran growled. "Later, babycakes."Asshole. "Good hunting, sugar woogums.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Slays

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“You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea and you always double knot your shoelaces.' I fight back. Then I dive back into my tent before I do something stupid like cry.”

Variant: But more words tumble out. 'You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.'

Then I dive into my tent before I do something stupid like cry.
Source: Mockingjay

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“I expected too much of educators. I expected them to understand, in a sense, the sugar-coated concepts of LISP used in AI that were embodied in the Logo language. It was then that I learned that computers were built to make money, not minds.”

Gary Kildall (1942–1994) Computer scientist and entrepreneur

Unpublished memoir Computer Connections, on the prevalence of BASIC in programming education; quoted in a eulogy http://www2.gol.com/users/joewein/eulogy.htm delivered by Tom Rolander

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“[Concerning the Sugar Pine] The wood is deliciously fragrant, and fine in grain and texture; it is of a rich cream-yellow, as if formed of condensed sunbeams.”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

Source: 1890s, The Mountains of California (1894), chapter 8: The Forests <!-- Terry Gifford, EWDB, page 360 -->

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“You mean to tell me that Jamaicans invented sugar, reggae and the best drug on Earth and the white man makes all the money!?”

Chris Rock (1965) American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer, and director

Never Scared (Album Version, 2005)

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“In the South, you will get a lot of sugar — and by that we mean a lot of hugs and kisses. We don't air kiss in the South.”

Morgan Murphy (food critic) (1972) Southern writer

Interview with The Chicago Tribune, Jan. 10, 2012 http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-01-10/travel/sc-trav-0110-food-southern-livng-20120110_1_cadillac-bread-cubes-press-bread

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“Some people think that macrobiotic philosophy is no more than the teaching of a diet - the eating of brown rice, carrots, and gomashio (sesame salt), others imagine that it is summed up in the statement, "Don't eat cake and sugar."”

George Ohsawa (1893–1966) twentieth century Japanese philosopher

How far from the truth!
Source: Essential Ohsawa - From Food to Health, Happiness to Freedom - Understanding the Basics of Macrobiotics (1994), p. 82

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“I fought Sugar Ray so often, I almost got diabetes.”

Jake LaMotta (1922–2017) American boxer

Jake http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00016439.html

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“I will not coat my words in lumps of sugar
I will serve them to our people with the bitter quinine.”

Frank Chipasula (1949) Malawian writer

"Manifeston On Ars Poetica," lines 20-21.
Visions and Reflections (1972)

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