Dumplings Quotes

• As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.

  Hattie McDaniel

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

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• My family dumplings are sleek and seductive, yet stout and masculine. They taste of meat, yet of flour. They are wet, yet they are dry. They have weight, but they are light. Airy, yet substantial. Earth, air, fire, water; velvet and elastic! Meat, wheat and magic! They are our family glory!

  Robert P. T. Coffin

  Food, Fire, Light

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• Soup dumplings, sitcoms, one-night stands--good ones leave you wanting more.

  Eddie Huang

  Night, Soup, Wanting More

  Eddie Huang (2013). “Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir”, p.4, Spiegel & Grau

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• A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Apples, Mind

  Charles Lamb (1854). “The essays of Elia...”, p.128

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• If you want to marry me, here's what you'll have to do: You must learn how to make a perfect chicken-dumpling stew. And you must sew my holey socks, And soothe my troubled mind, And develop the knack for scratching my back, And keep my shoes spotlessly shined. And while I rest you must rake up the leaves, And when it is hailing and snowing You must shovel the walk...and be still when I talk, And-hey-where are you going?

  Shel Silverstein

  Shoes, Snow, Perfect

  Shel Silverstein, “My Rules”

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• It's a good thing that dumplings are small because Lee Anne's goodies will make your willpower vanish as you reach for 'just one more'.

  Roger Mooking

  Willpower, Good Things, Just One

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• The dumpling is indeed of more ancient institution, and of foreign origin; but alas, what were those dumplings? Nothing but a few lentils sodden together, moisten'd and cemented with a little seeth'd fat.

  John Arbuthnot

  Together, Littles, Ancient

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• Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Apples, Opinion

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• I really, really love China. To be honest, the food is so amazing! When I first went to Beijing and Shanghai, I actually became obsessed with soup dumplings, and would stand in lines and get them on the street. It was something that I became obsessed with and when I came back to the States, I did all this research for the best soup dumplings in the Los Angeles area and in the New York area and it was amazing to find those Asian dishes that were authentic and I can enjoy them at home.

  Tyra Banks

  New York, Home, Research

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• If you like good ol' fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad.

  Dolly Parton

  Fashion, Southern, Soul

  "Andy Warhol’s Interview Interview: Dolly Parton" by Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 12, 2014.

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• Hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple dumpling.

  Herman Melville

  Food, Ideas, Apples

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.86

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• I love my squirrel and dumplings, but you can make it with chicken and dumplings. I love making the dumplings. I think I just like to roll out dough.

  Kay Robertson

  Thinking, Squirrels, Love Making

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• The fricassee with dumplings is made by a Mrs. Miller whose husband has left her four times on account of her disposition and returned four times on account of her cooking.

  Rex Stout

  Husband, Food, Cooking

  Rex Stout (2010). “Some Buried Caesar”, p.78, Crimeline

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• Now they got to look into me loving Tea Cake and see whether it was done right or not! They don't know if life is a mess of corn-meal dumplings, and if love is a bed-quilt!

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Quilts, Love Is, Loving Life

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.10, University of Illinois Press

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• The dumpling-eaters are a race sprung partly from the old Epicurean and partly from the Peripatetic Sect; they were first brought into Britain by Julius Caesar; and finding it a Land of Plenty, they wisely resolved never to go home again.

  John Arbuthnot

  Home, Race, Land

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• Crackers, toasted or hard bread may be added a short time before the soup is wanted; but do not put in those libels on civilized cookery, called DUMPLINGS! One might about as well eat, with the hope of digesting, a brick from the ruins of Babylon, as one of the hard, heavy masses of boiled dough which usually pass under this name.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Food, Names, Soup

  Sarah Josepha Hale (2012). “Early American Cookery: "The Good Housekeeper," 1841”, p.58, Courier Corporation

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• Dolly Parton made me chicken and dumplings. That Tennessee woman can burn some pots! And we know that I am not necessarily shy to a fork!

  Queen Latifah

  Shy, Tennessee, Pot

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• But then you turn 30. Oooohh, what happened there? Makes you sound like bad milk! He TURNED; we had to throw him out. There's no fun now, you're Just a sour-dumpling. What's wrong? What's changed?

  George Carlin

  Fun, Sound, Milk

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• In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans.

  Herman Melville

  Ideas, Apples, Ramadan

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.86

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