Breakfast Cereal Quotes

• Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

  Roald Dahl

  Food, Home Cooking, Cereal

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, p.126, Penguin

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• The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Thinking, Cereal, Election Process

  Speech at the Democratic National Convention, August 18, 1956.

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• Cereal eating is almost a marker for a healthy lifestyle. It sets you up for the day, so you don't overeat.

  Bruce Barton

  Cereal, Healthy, Eating

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• Breakfast cereals that come in the same colors as polyester leisure suits make oversleeping a virtue.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Food, Cereal, Color

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.128, Vintage

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• The Breakfast of Champions isn't cereal, it's the competition!

  David Lee Roth

  Cereal, Competition, Champion

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• When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.

  Dan O'Brien

  Cereal, Hype, Breakfast

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• Sometimes you actually get caught in the web of things where people are talking about... what kind of breakfast cereal you like.

  Joshua Homme

  Cereal, Talking, People

  "Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age". Interview with Missy, suicidegirls.com. June 2, 2005.

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• I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.

  Bill Watterson

  Cereal, Purple, Milk

  "The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1990.

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• Pay attention; don't let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Falling In Love, Cereal, Attention

  "Oprah Talks to Jerry Seinfeld". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. November, 2007.

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• Right now, Im very healthy. I have no vices left. Except sugary breakfast cereal. And absinthe, of course.

  Johnny Galecki

  Cereal, Healthy, Vices

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• Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

  Lewis Carroll

  Children, Creativity, Ignorance

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 5 (1872)

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• Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.

  Bill James

  Baseball, Cereal, People

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• You can't say your favorite kind of cake is birthday cake, that's like saying your favorite kind of cereal is breakfast cereal.

  Aziz Ansari

  Cake, Cereal, Breakfast

  "Fictional character: Tom Haverford". "Parks and Recreation" (TV Series), Episode: "Hunting Trip", www.imdb.com. 2009–2015.

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• Don't eat breakfast cereals that change the color of your milk.

  Michael Pollan

  Cereal, Color, Breakfast

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• If you eat the same cereal every day it's gonna get old. And if I had thought about snowboarding every day, I would have quit a long time ago.

  Shaun White

  Cereal, Snowboarding, Long

  "Fitness Interview With Shaun White". www.foxnews.com. March 8, 2010.

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• I love cereal. I eat several bowls a day, mostly a few late at night.

  Paul Dano

  Night, Cereal, Late

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Listen, three eyes," he said, "don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.

  Douglas Adams

  Eye, Cereal, Trying

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.184, Pan Macmillan

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• Every film is a remake of a previous film, or a remake of a television series that everyone loved in the 1960s, or a remake of a television series that everyone hated in the 1960s. Or it's a theme park ride; it will soon come to breakfast cereal mascots.

  Alan Moore

  Cereal, Television, Breakfast

  "Alan Moore: why I turned my back on Hollywood". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2012.

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• It was natural to see the struggle for dignity for black people in America as a sister struggle of the Jewish struggle. So growing up, it was always a part of my breakfast cereal to think of myself as someone who was part of a larger struggle.

  Eugene Jarecki

  Growing Up, Struggle, Thinking

  "Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 9, 2012.

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• To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.

  Philip Roth

  Cereal, Names, Ivory

  FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Jul 29, 2016

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• Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

  Erma Bombeck

  Family, Food, Cereal

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• I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.

  Judy Blume

  Morning, Children, Thinking

  "Young at Heart: Judy Blume". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. December 13, 2004.

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• I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes.

  Judy Holliday

  Book, Cereal, Hands

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• Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are printed on the outside of boxes of breakfast cereals. On anything.

  Aldous Huxley

  Book, Fall, Reading

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• Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries

  Norman Borlaug

  Country, Rain, Cereal

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