Meals Quotes - Page 2

Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.

Jim Rohn

Inspirational, Missing You, Book

FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 04, 2017

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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Confidence, Men, Clothes

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After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.

Ernest Shackleton

Want, Might, Able

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, Beau Riffenburgh (2007). “The Heart of the Antarctic and South”, p.236, Wordsworth Editions

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My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.

Anne Tyler

Writing, Literature, My Family

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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

E. O. Wilson

Nature, Renaissance, Gains

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A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.

Kathy Mattea

Wine, Glasses, Gourmet

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Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.

James F. Cooper

Christian, Suffering, Ease

"The American Democrat: The Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, p. 189, April 1, 2010.

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My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.

Bob Cousy

Basketball, Winning

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Breakfast is a notoriously difficult meal to serve with a flourish.

Clement Freud

Food, Breakfast, Difficult

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I've never worked as much as I would've wanted to, and that's why I end up doing a lot of stage as well, because stage is a full course meal

Holly Hunter

Ends, Stage, Wells

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I eat five to seven meals a day and a couple of protein shakes

Casper Van Dien

Couple, Seven, Protein

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Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.

Roland Joffe

Food, Sitting Down, Different

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It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it

M. F. K. Fisher

Thinking, Soup, Matter

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I have many memories of waking up to eat breakfast that my mother carefully prepared for us and her saying, what do y'all want for lunch, and as we're eating lunch, what do y'all want for dinner? It's always about the next meal

Lisa Loeb

Mother, Memories, Lunch

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Go far - too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, through all your travels; for you'll find it certain.

John Fletcher

Suits, Week, Certain

Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Henry William Weber (1812). “The works of Beaumont and Fletcher: in fourteen volumes: with an introduction and explanatory notes”, p.376

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I think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it.

Arthur Hertzberg

Fighting, Thinking, Organization

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The soldiers' last meal is generally served out about five o'clock in the afternoon, sometimes earlier; and a stretch of fourteen hours intervenes between then and breakfast.

Patrick MacGill

Soldier, Afternoon, Breakfast

MacGill, Patrick (2017). “The Amateur Army”, p.12, Read Books Ltd

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Are you kidding? I'm a terrible cook, but John is a really great one. Literally, I never cook. The whole time we were dating, I prepared two officially romantic meals. Both of them were such disasters that he begs me never to go into the kitchen again.

Rebecca Romijn

Romantic, Two, Dating

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You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.

Ella Maillart

Boys, Climbing, Hiking

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These guys are so old they're eligible for meals on wheels.

Mickey Rivers

Guy, Wheels

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To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

Benjamin Franklin

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

1733 Poor Richard's Almanack, Jun.

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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

Melody Beattie

Inspirational, Life, Change

Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.

Jose Bergamin

Literature, French Literature

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There's nothing you can really do to prepare to rock. Do you prepare to eat a delicious meal? Are you hungry? Then you're gonna eat it.

Jack Black

Rocks, Hungry, Delicious

FaceBook post by Jack Black from Jul 30, 2013

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Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, 'A house guest,' you're wrong because I have just described my kids.

Erma Bombeck

Kids, Parenting, Swag

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