What is fed?

Famous quotes containing the word fed:

“The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)

“You who desired so much—in vain to ask—
Yet fed your hunger like an endless task,
Dared dignify the labor, bless the quest—
Achieved that stillness ultimately best,”
—Hart Crane (1899–1932)

“I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.”
—George Farquhar (1678–1707)