Breakfast Food Quotes

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  All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

  John Gunther

  Happiness, Happy, Food

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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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• Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.

  Josh Billings

  Good Morning, Business, Work

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• Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.

  Adelle Davis

  Funny Inspirational, Kings, Food

  "Million Dollar Habits: Proven Power Practices to Double and Triple Your Income". Book by Brian Tracy, May 2, 2006.

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• I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humorous, Food

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• Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, People

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.15, Oscar Wilde

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• Meat is a big deal in my life. I do love breakfast food, but I don't think that's extraordinary. I'm a normal American. We love eggs and meat and potatoes and gravy.

  Nick Offerman

  Thinking, Eggs, Potatoes

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• It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don't mean anything unless this generation has a future. And we're not sure that it does.

  George Wald

  Mean, Giving, Not Good Enough

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• The breakfast food idea made its appearance in a little third-story room on the corner of 28th Street and Third Avenue, New York City....My cooking facilities were very limited, making it very difficult to prepare cereals. It often occurred to me that it should be possible to purchase cereals at groceries already cooked and ready to eat, and I considered different ways in which this might be done.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  New York, Ideas, Cereal

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• Some breakfast food manufacturer hit upon the simple notion of emptying out the leavings of carthorse nose bags, adding a few other things like unconsumed portions of chicken layer's mash, and the sweepings of racing stables, packing the mixture in little bags and selling them in health food shops.

  Frank Muir

  Food, Simple, Leaving

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• Why are breakfast foods breakfast foods?

  John Green

  Hipster, Breakfast, Fast Food

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.137, Penguin

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• Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand - a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods - or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.

  Willa Cather

  Art, Writing, Stories

  Willa Cather (1988). “Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art”, p.103, U of Nebraska Press

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• Hash browns are my favorite breakfast food.

  Rachel Bilson

  My Favorite, Hash, Breakfast Being Important

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• "Why are breakfast food breakfast foods?" I asked them. "Like, why don't we have curry for breakfast?" "Hazel, eat." "But why?" I asked. "I mean seriously: How did scrambled eggs get stuck with breakfast exclusivity? You can put bacon on a sandwich without anyone freaking out. But the moment your sandwich has an egg, boom, it's a breakfast sandwich."

  John Green

  Mean, Eggs, Sandwiches

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, January 10, 2012.

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• You know you poor when you eatin' breakfast food late. You fryin' toast? At nine o'clock at night? With bacon? You're broke.

  Bernie Mac

  Night, Nine, Poor

  Bernie Mac (2002). “I Ain't Scared of You”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• I love breakfast, so I'd probably spend a long time on that. And breakfast food matters so I'd make sure it is the best food - great fruit and such.

  Garance Dore

  Long, Matter, Fruit

  "BYT Interviews: Garance Dore". Interview with Svetlana Legetic, brightestyoungthings.com. February 19, 2016.

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