Cocoa Quotes

• Fruit of all the kinds that the country produced were laid before him; he ate very little, but from time to time a liquor prepared from cocoa, and of an aphrodisiac nature, as we were told, was presented to him in golden cups... I observed a number of jars, above fifty, brought in, filled with foaming chocolate of which he took some.

  Bernal Diaz del Castillo

  Country, Numbers, Chocolate

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• At no other time has Nature concentrated such a wealth of valuable nourishment into such a small space as in the cocoa bean.

  Alexander von Humboldt

  Space, Wealth, Beans

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• The moment of cocoa-drinking was always the moment of confidences.

  Stella Benson

  Drinking, Chocolate, Moments

  Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”

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• The calories in chocolate don't count because chocolate comes from the cocoa bean, and everyone knows that beans are good for you.

  Jill Shalvis

  Chocolate, Beans, Calories

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• Foods of the Gods”) - “After water, cocoa is the single healthiest substance you can put in your mouth. It can easily replace a number of psychiatric drugs for mood, plus it produces the same chemistry in the brain that occurs when we fall in love.

  Chris Kilham

  Falling In Love, Numbers, Water

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• I'm addicted to chocolate. I used to snort cocoa.

  Marilyn

  Chocolate, Used

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• I don't much care for Hollywood, I'd rather have a nice cup of cocoa.

  Noel Coward

  Nice, Hollywood, Care

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Animal crackers, and cocoa to drink That is the finest of suppers, I think When I'm grown up and can have what I please, I think I shall always insist upon these.

  Christopher Morley

  Food, Animal, Thinking

  Christopher Morley (2007). “Chimneysmoke”, p.52, Wildside Press LLC

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• Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at least;Cocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Gentleman, Tea, Coward

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “The Song Of Right And Wrong”

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• So some guy may know how to make money in cocoa beans, but I don't so I just let him have that. But it's got to be something I understand. It's got to be a business with fundamentally good economics. It's got to be a management that I like and trust and admire. And it's got to be a price that makes sense.

  Warren Buffett

  Guy, May, Management

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• Even if you feed the cow cocoa you will not get chocolate.

  Bill Vaughan

  Animal, Chocolate, Cows

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• When we rise in the morning... at the table we drink coffee which is provided to us by a South American, or tea by a Chinese, or cocoa by a West African; before we leave for our jobs we are already beholden to more than half the world.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Morning, Jobs

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• Men, she thought, were one of the world's few sure comforts, like a fire on a cold October night, like cocoa, like broken-in-slippers. Their clumsy affections, their bristly faces, and their willingness to do what needed to be done - cook an omelette, change lightbulbs, make with hugging - sometimes almost made being a woman fun.

  Joe Hill

  Fun, Night, Men

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• There is an enormous amount of interest in raw and organic foods, but more recently it is superfoods. People want to know more about chia seeds, mocha, raw chocolate and cocoa, and what they can do for you.

  David Wolfe

  People, Chocolate, Want

  "World authority on raw foods, superfoods and natural healing". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa?

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  War, Gunpowder, Steel

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• Jamaica has the best coffee, the best sugar, the best ginger and some of the best cocoa in the world.

  Chris Blackwell

  Coffee, Jamaica, World

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• I advise nobody to drown sorrow in cocoa. It is bad for the figure and it does not alleviate the sorrow.

  Winifred Holtby

  Chocolate, Sorrow, Doe

  Winifred Holtby (1937). “Pavements at Anderby: tales of "South riding" and other regions by Winifred Holtby”

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• What I love is Mexican hot chocolate, like a spicy hot chocolate - adding cayenne pepper to the Hershey's cocoa and making a spicy-sweet treat.

  Kimberly Williams-Paisley

  Sweet, Love Is, Mexican

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

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• What I ate for breakfast on school mornings was one buttered roll--a soft roll, not a hard roll--and one cup of cocoa; any attempt to alter this menu I regarded as a plot to poison me.

  Esther Hautzig

  Morning, School, Plot

  Esther Hautzig (2002). “The endless steppe: with connections”, Holt McDougal

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• What happened to fantasy for me is what also happened to rock and roll. It found a common denominator for making maximum money. As a result, it lost its tensions, its anger, its edginess and turned into one big cup of cocoa.

  Michael Moorcock

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Edginess

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• Holy mother of Lord Cocoa Puffs

  Lauren Oliver

  Mother, Puff, Lord

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.146, Hachette UK

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• He appeared before me and departed. We were not able to speak to or touch each other. But in that short interval, he transformed many things inside me. He literally stirred my mind and body the way a spoon stirs a cup of cocoa, down to the depths of my internal organs and my womb.

  Haruki Murakami

  Departed, Mind, Depth

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• More like the movie where the guy meets a smart girl who wears a lot of sweaters and drinks cocoa. They talk about books and issues and kiss in the rain.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Girl, Smart, Rain

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh, comfortable cocoa!

  Dodie Smith

  Comfortable

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.78, St. Martin's Griffin

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• What does the good ship bear so well? The cocoa-nut with its stony shell, And the milky sap of its inner cell.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Cells, Nuts, Doe

  John Greenleaf WHITTIER (1860). “Home Ballads and Poems”, p.144

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