Food Quotes by Elizabeth Berg

10 Food quotes by Elizabeth Berg

Berg’s ten short passages treat food as a backdrop for everyday kindness, offering a gentle look at how sharing a dish can nurture relationships.

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books are like confort food without the calories

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“Some people have no more burden than an avocado going bad.”

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Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.

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A ritual or tradition can be as simple as something you do every night, like read a story to a small child,…

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“Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels." Marsha thinks about this. Then she says, "Not true." "I know," Tom says, and…

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Reading Claire Cooks novel is like eating some exotic dish about which you say, Wow, this is great! Whats in it? The…

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I'm nuts about the South - the people, the language, the food, the land, the stories and writers that come from there…

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“I never saw the point in going out to fancy restaurants. It’s not that I don’t appreciate good food; I love good…

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My favorite splurge is homemade chocolate cake and vanilla ice cream or a Sausage McMuffin with egg or scalloped potatoes or turkey…

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When you have that deep kind of hunger that is part longing, what's better to eat than the best apple pie? Or…

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Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree.

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“I think the reason we're cruel sometimes is that we're afraid we're going to like something.”

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If there were a category in the Olympics for laundry, my mother would have been a gold-medal winner.

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“If you say something over and over again, it begins to lose it's meaning... Say anything enough times and it becomes gibberish.”

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“You know, sometimes marriage is iron. Sometimes it’s tissue paper. And I think the times it’s tissue paper are when you need to keep…

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“It's not that he doesn't smile; it's that if his smile were something you drew, you'd erase it, thinking, Wrong.”

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People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?

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“I should have said “powder room.” That would evoke the image of me sitting before a beautiful gold mirror, a vase of fresh flowers…

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Sometimes the best reading comes just by accident. Someone talks about a book, or you're just wandering the stacks in the library, and you…

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“I don’t think Martha’s so bad. I think I want her for a friend instead of you. When I look at her magazine, I…

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*We give so little when it's in us always to give so much more. It's bothering to listen with an open heart to someone…

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We're not just writers; we're readers probably more than anything else. That's how you learn how to write and how you learn to appreciate…

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I thought of the priest who'd told me that many religions hold that it is easier to be closely connected to people we love…

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“How is it that we dare to honk at others in traffic, when we know nothing about where they have just come from or…

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The truth is, we usually only show our unhappiness to another woman. I suppose this is one of our problems. And yet it is…

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