Salt Quotes

“You are the salt of the earth. But remember that salt is useful when in association, but useless in isolation.”

“You are the salt of the earth. But remember that salt is useful when in association, but useless in isolation.”

“[N]obody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.”

“Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour wherewith shall it be salted?”

“It doesn't seem to matter what we think...The prince will come up here and look at us as if we're barrels in a trader's wagon. And if I'm salt pork and he doesn't care for salt pork, then there's nothing I can do.”

“Your daughter, your sister. She is salt to the sea,”

“What goes into a salt-mine becomes salt.”

“I was certain t find the familiar sting of salt, but what I needed to know was what kind: kitchen, sweat, tears or the sea.”

“The sea was like another member of the household, a recalcitrant child at times, a soothing aunt at others. She crooned them awake; she crooned them to sleep. Everywhere, there was the smell of salt.”

“Do you know a cure for me?""Why yes," he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water.""Salt water?" I asked him."Yes," he said, "in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”

“they say we’re losing centimetresevery year; as if we werea beach that’s losingground with every salt advancethe night is overcastbut why not try, at least,to touch the things our orbitscannot hold, while there’s timewhile we can.”