Gingerbread Quotes

• We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

  Orson Scott Card

  Promise, Wicked, Alive

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• Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For one that is read from start to finish, thousands are leafed through, other thousands lie motionless, others are jammed against mouseholes, thrown at rats, others are stood on, sat on, drummed on, have gingerbread baked on them or are used to light pipes.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Lying, Book, Reading

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 65, 1799.

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• I love the scents of winter! For me, it's all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread and spruce.

  Taylor Swift

  Winter, Smell, Feelings

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• The year has held its ups and downs for me; I'm sure it has for you, too. I'm counting on the year ending on a note of joy (and gingerbread!) and look forward to a new year brimming with promise and peace.

  Kirby Larson

  New Year, Years, Joy

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• The Gingerbread House has four walls, a roof, a door, a window, and a chimney. It is decorated with many sweet culinary delights on the outside.But on the inside there is nothing-only the bare gingerbread walls.It is not a real house-not until you decide to add a Gingerbread Room.That's when the stories can move in.They will stay in residence for as long as you abstain from taking the first gingerbread bite.

  Vera Nazarian

  Sweet, Wall, Real

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• I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Earth, Likes

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• Well. That's helpful. We'll put an APB out on the Gingerbread Man. I'm not hopeful it'll do us much good, though. Word on the street is you can't catch him.

  Joe Hill

  Men, Hopeful, Helpful

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• You should see his older brother,” said Jem. “Makes Gabriel look sweeter than gingerbread. Hates Will even more thanGabriel, too, if that’s possible.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Hate, Looks

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't trust myself enough. When I write, I overwrite. Gingerbread. Too much gingerbread. Writing is probably the only hobby I have. But I wish I had another one. If I was just a little better at golf.

  John Goodman

  Writing, Golf, Wish

  "John Goodman: The ESQ&A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. September 17, 2012.

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• I love to eat. That's why I got so fat; I love to eat. If I don't walk away from a meal hurting, I didn't do it right. If I don't walk away from Thanksgiving dinner feeling like I've been turkey-f**ked in a gingerbread prison, I didn't do it right.

  Greg Behrendt

  Hurt, Funny Thanksgiving, Turkeys

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• How could one be in this world without feeling dismayed by it? Even if one paints flowers and gingerbread.

  Gerhard Richter

  Flower, Feelings, World

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• We turned us into wintergirls, and when she tried to leave, I pulled her back into the snow because I was afraid to be alone.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Snow, Wintergirls

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.78, Penguin

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• If I had lady-spider legs, I would weave a sky where the stars lined up. Matresses would be tied down tight to their trucks, bodies would never crash through windshields. The moon would rise above the wine-dark sea and give babies only to maidens and musicians who had prayed long and hard. Lost girls wouldn't need compasses or maps. They would find gingerbread paths to lead them out of the forest and home again. They would never sleep in silver boxes with white velvet sheets, not until they were wrinkled-paper grandmas and ready for the trip.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Girl, Baby, Stars

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• Liz looks at the tissue box, which is decorated with drawings of snowmen engaged in various holiday activities. One of the snowmen is happily placing a smiling rack of gingerbread men in an oven. Baking gingerbread men, or any cooking for that matter, is probably close to suicide for a snowman, Liz thinks. Why would a snowman voluntarily engage in an activity that would in all likelihood melt him? Can snowmen even eat? Liz glares at the box.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Suicide, Holiday, Men

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.50, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• God Almighty, your ruined, and you didn't even eat the gingerbread.

  Eloisa James

  Almighty, Ruined

  Eloisa James (2011). “When Beauty Tamed the Beast”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• There were doors that looked like large keyholes, others that resembled the entrances to caves, there were golden doors, some were padded and some were studded with nails, some were paper-thin and others as thick as the doors of treasure houses; there was one that looked like a giant's mouth and another that had to be opened like a drawbridge, one that suggested a big ear and one that was made of gingerbread, one that was shaped like an oven door, and one that had to be unbuttoned.

  Michael Ende

  Doors, House, Giants

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• My demon ate them. (Nick) What happened to the jocks? (Acheron) Riiiight. And I suppose the Big Bad Wolf will be coming in right behind you to finish up? Or is it the Gingerbread Man I need to fear? (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Men, Needs, Jocks

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• Though the fact that they have to be rebuilt And frequently mortgaged to the hilt Is inclined to take the gilt Off the gingerbread, And certainly damps the fun Of the eldest son.

  Noel Coward

  Fun, Home, Son

  Noel Coward, Barry Day (2009). “The Essential Noël Coward Compendium: The Very Best of His Work, Life and Times”, Methuen Drama

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• Those dripping crumpets, I can see them now. Tiny crisp wedges of toast, and piping-hot, flaky scones. Sandwiches of unknown nature, mysteriously flavoured and quite delectable, and that very special gingerbread. Angel cake, that melted in the mouth, and his rather stodgier companion, bursting with peel and raisins. There was enough food there to keep a starving family for a week.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Angel, Cake, Special

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• The more complicated the order, the bigger the asshole. If you walk into a Starbucks and order a 'decaf grandee, half soy, half lowfat, iced vanilla, double-shot, gingerbread cappuccino, extra dry, light ice, with one Sweet-n'-Low and one NutraSweet,' ooooh, you're a huge asshole.

  George Carlin

  Sweet, Coffee, Light

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• We held hands when we walked down the gingerbread path into the forest, blood dripping from our fingers. We danced with witches and kissed monsters. We turned us into wintergirls, when she tried to leave, I pulled her back into the snow because I was afraid to be alone.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Blood, Hands, Snow

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.78, Penguin

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• Is it to be imagined ... that women were made for no other purpose than to fabricate sweetmeats and gingerbread, construct shirts, darn stockings, and become mothers of possible presidents? Assuredly not. Should the women of America ever discover what their power might be, and compare it with what it is, much improvement might be hoped for.

  Frances Trollope

  Mother, Women, America

  Frances Milton Trollope (1832). “Domestic Manners of the Americans: Complete in One Volume”, p.225

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