Kitchen Quotes - Page 33

• Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous time!

  Julia Child

  Speak, Conviction, States

  Julia Child, Alex Prud'homme (2006). “My Life in France”, p.10, Anchor

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• Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

  Anne Lamott

  Brother, Father, Book

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, Anchor

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• Sunsets are loved because they vanish. Flowers are loved because they go. The dogs of the field and the cats of the kitchen are loved because soon they must depart. These are not the sole reasons, but at the heart of morning welcomes and afternoon laughters is the promise of farewell. In the gray muzzle of an old dog we see goodbye. In the tired face of an old friend we read long journeys beyond returns.

  Ray Bradbury

  Goodbye, Dog, Morning

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• She was a great cook, but she cooked more for herself than for other people, not because she was hungry but because she was comforted by the rituals of the kitchen.

  Ruth Reichl

  People, Hungry, Cooks

  Ruth Reichl (2011). “Tender At The Bone”, p.34, Random House

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• The wind outside nested in each tree, prowled the sidewalks in invisible treads like unseen cats. Tom Skelton shivered. Anyone could see that the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel because it was All Hallows' Eve. Everything seemed cut from soft black velvet or gold or orange velvet. Smoke panted up out of a thousand chimneys like the plumes of funeral parades. From kitchen windows drifted two pumpkin smells: gourds being cut, pies being baked.

  Ray Bradbury

  Cat, Cutting, Night

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• I don’t believe rape is inevitable or natural. If I did, I would have no reason to be here. If I did, my political practice would be different than it is. Have you ever wondered why we [women] are not just in armed combat against you? It’s not because there’s a shortage of kitchen knives in this country. It is because we believe in your humanity, against all the evidence.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Country, Believe, Knives

  "This strong feminist voice was hardly a man-hater" by Robert Jensen, www.chron.com. April 19, 2005.

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• People’s lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, and unfathomable – deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum.

  Alice Munro

  Simple, People, Caves

  "Lives of Girls and Women". Book by Alice Munro, 1971.

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• I want you to take a sleeve of Thin Mints and line them up on the edge of the kitchen counter and when I'm hungry I can just bend over and sweep a cookie into my mouth like I'm scoring a goal in hockey.

  Jack Gantos

  Hockey, Goal, Cookies

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• The smell of that buttered toast simply spoke to Toad, and with no uncertain voice; talked of warm kitchens, of breakfasts on bright frosty mornings, of cozy parlour firesides on winter evenings, when one's ramble was over and slippered feet were propped on the fender; of the purring of contented cats, and the twitter of sleepy canaries.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Morning, Cat, Winter

  1908 The Wind in the Willows, ch.8.

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• I was in the kitchen drinking coffee when I heard Coretta cry, "Martin, Martin, come quickly!" I put down my cup and ran toward the living room. As I approached the front window Coretta pointed joyfully to a slowly moving bus: "Darling, it's empty!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Drinking, Coffee, Moving

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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• Do a loony-goony dance 'Cross the kitchen floor, Put something silly in the world That ain't been there before.

  Shel Silverstein

  Life Lesson, Silly, World

  Shel Silverstein (1999). “The World of Shel Silverstein Fabric Banner”

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• Life will throw everything but the kitchen sink in your path, and then it will throw the kitchen sink. It's your job to avoid the obstacles. If you let them stop you or distract you, you're not doing your job, and failing to do your job will cause regrets that paralyze you more than a bad back.

  Andre Agassi

  Life, Jobs, Regret

  Andre Agassi (2009). “Open”, p.7, Vintage

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• Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.

  Diane Arbus

  Inspirational, Photography, Night

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• Among the faithful, in the great kitchens of the world, Escoffier is to Careme what the New Testament is to the Old.

  Andre Simon

  Food, Faithful, World

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• Once I was looking through the kitchen window at dusk and I saw an old woman looking in. Suddenly the light changed and I realized that the old woman was myself. you see, it all happens on the outside; inside one doesn't change.

  Molly Keane

  Birthday, Light, Saws

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• The time of business does not differ with me from the time of prayer; and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God in as great tranquility as if I were on my knees.

  Brother Lawrence

  Prayer, Doe, Different

  Brother Lawrence (2013). “Mystical Paths to God: Three Journeys”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations....I have built my own factory on my own ground.

  Madam C. J. Walker

  Motivational, Happiness, Success

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• Some sensible person once remarked that you spend the whole of your life either in your bed or in your shoes. Having done the best you can by shoes and bed, devote all the time and resources at your disposal to the building up of a fine kitchen. It will be, as it should be, the most comforting and comfortable room in the house.

  Elizabeth David

  Food, Building Up, Shoes

  Elizabeth David (1969). “French Country Cooking”

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• Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home.

  Rachael Ray

  Home, House, Good Food

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• I am a Beyonce fan. I’m gonna watch her upcoming documentary because fortunately one of the TVs in our kitchen has closed captioning so I’ll be able to understand what she says. You know Beyonce can’t talk. She sounds like she has a fifth grade education.

  Wendy Williams

  Sound, Fans, Watches

  "Wendy Williams Disses Beyonce: ‘She Sounds Like She Has A Fifth Grade Education’". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2012.

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• When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying the food with the dexterity of a croupier.

  Craig Claiborne

  Moving, Food, Dancing

  "Food and Drink: A Book of Quotations". Book by Susan L. Rattiner, September 19, 2012.

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• From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.

  E. B. White

  Morning, Food, Heart

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• I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one.

  Anthony Daniels

  Appreciation, Appliances, Greater

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• The main thing is to have a gutsy approach and use your head.

  Julia Child

  Use, Approach

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• As you get older, you shouldn't waste time drinking bad wine.

  Julia Child

  Drinking, Food, Wine

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