--- title: "14 Ifs Quotes By Julia Child" description: "14 Ifs quotes by Julia Child. Plus more from Julia Child and more Ifs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dcc/julia-child-1522_be-your-best_the-egg-can-be-your-best-friend-if-you-j_3179939.jpg" --- > [The egg can be your best friend if you just give it the right break](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/the-egg-can-be-your-best-friend-if-you-just-give-it-the-right-break/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dcc/julia-child-1522_be-your-best_the-egg-can-be-your-best-friend-if-you-j_3179939.jpg) > [How lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/how-lovely-life-can-be-if-one-takes-time-to-be-friendly/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/82c/julia-child-1522_friendly_how-lovely-life-can-be-if-one-takes-time_2359740.jpg) > [If you're not ready to fail, you're not going to learn how to cook.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/if-you-re-not-ready-to-fail-you-re-not-going-to-learn-how-to-cook/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7cf/julia-child-1522_cooks_if-you-re-not-ready-to-fail-you-re-not-g_1844131.jpg) > [Just how could a nation often be great if it's bread tastes want Kleenex.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/just-how-could-a-nation-often-be-great-if-it-s-bread-tastes-want/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/249/julia-child-1522_bread_just-how-could-a-nation-often-be-great-i_2938692.jpg) > [If you are going to flip something, you must have the courage of your convictions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/if-you-are-going-to-flip-something-you-must-have-the-courage-of-your/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e40/julia-child-1522_conviction_if-you-are-going-to-flip-something-you-m_19825.jpg) > [Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/everything-can-have-drama-if-it-s-done-right-even-a-pancake/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b0/julia-child-1522_done_everything-can-have-drama-if-it-s-done-r_2024560.jpg) > [I always try to buy just what I need. You get ideas as to what's in season and what's best. I think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/i-always-try-to-buy-just-what-i-need-you-get-ideas-as-to-what-s-in/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f4/julia-child-1522_difficult_i-always-try-to-buy-just-what-i-need-you_1823032.jpg) > [If you're in a good profession, it's hard to get bored, because you're never finished - there will always be work you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/if-you-re-in-a-good-profession-it-s-hard-to-get-bored-because-you-re/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/423/julia-child-1522_bored_if-you-re-in-a-good-profession-it-s-hard_2379899.jpg) > [Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/noncooks-think-it-s-silly-to-invest-two-hours-work-in-two-minutes/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/023/julia-child-1522_ballet_noncooks-think-it-s-silly-to-invest-two_732745.jpg) > [Always remember: If you're alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who's going…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/always-remember-if-you-re-alone-in-the-kitchen-and-you-drop-the-lamb/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c1/julia-child-1522_cooking_always-remember-if-you-re-alone-in-the-k_711936.jpg) > [If you're buying tomatoes pick them up and smell them-they should have a lovely perfume. They need to be kept at fifty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/if-you-re-buying-tomatoes-pick-them-up-and-smell-them-they-should/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e7/julia-child-1522_buying_if-you-re-buying-tomatoes-pick-them-up-a_60632.jpg) > [Learn how to cook! That's the way to save money. You don't save it buying hamburger helpers, and prepared foods; you save…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/learn-how-to-cook-that-s-the-way-to-save-money-you-don-t-save-it/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/096/julia-child-1522_buying_learn-how-to-cook-that-s-the-way-to-save_116127.jpg) > [I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make… Usually one's cooking is better…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/i-don-t-believe-in-twisting-yourself-into-knots-of-excuses-and-2/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/04e/julia-child-1522_bears_i-don-t-believe-in-twisting-yourself-int_1734290.jpg) > [In France cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. I think the French enjoy the complication of the art…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/in-france-cooking-is-a-serious-art-form-and-a-national-sport-i-think/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/727/julia-child-1522_art_in-france-cooking-is-a-serious-art-form_2388178.jpg) ## Other authors on Ifs ## More by Julia Child > [I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/i-had-my-first-french-meal-and-i-never-got-over-it-it-was-just/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) > [If you are going to flip something, you must have the courage of your convictions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/if-you-are-going-to-flip-something-you-must-have-the-courage-of-your/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) > [My father was in real estate, banking, and land management. As family life, it was very conventional, happy, and comfortable. We weren't wealthy, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/my-father-was-in-real-estate-banking-and-land-management-as-family/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) > [I never feel lonely in the kitchen. Food is very friendly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/i-never-feel-lonely-in-the-kitchen-food-is-very-friendly/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) > [We are so bemused by our own petard, that we are unable to look at things objectively.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/we-are-so-bemused-by-our-own-petard-that-we-are-unable-to-look-at/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) > [If you're buying tomatoes pick them up and smell them-they should have a lovely perfume. They need to be kept at fifty degrees or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/if-you-re-buying-tomatoes-pick-them-up-and-smell-them-they-should/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) > [The perfect dressing is essential to the perfect salad, and I see no reason whatsoever for using a bottled dressing, which may have been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/the-perfect-dressing-is-essential-to-the-perfect-salad-and-i-see-no/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) > [I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/i-think-one-of-the-terrible-things-today-is-that-people-have-this/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) > [“Standing up through the Citroen's open sunroof, my six-foot-three-inch, red-cheeked sister pointed a long, trembling finger at the perpetrator and with maximum indignation yelled:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/standing-up-through-the-citroen-s-open-sunroof-my-six-foot-three-inch/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) > [The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/the-only-real-stumbling-block-is-fear-of-failure-in-cooking-you-ve/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) > [In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, and there was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/in-the-1960s-you-could-eat-anything-you-wanted-and-of-course-people/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) > [I was kind of an innocent hayseed from a middle-class, utterly nonintellectual background.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/i-was-kind-of-an-innocent-hayseed-from-a-middle-class-utterly/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) > [There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/there-are-only-four-great-arts-music-painting-sculpture-and/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) > [“It was fun, although we felt like pawns, or prawns, in the maelstrom.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/it-was-fun-although-we-felt-like-pawns-or-prawns-in-the-maelstrom/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) > [Many of the delicious soups you eat in French homes and little restaurants are made just this way, with a leek-and-potato base to which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/many-of-the-delicious-soups-you-eat-in-french-homes-and-little/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/julia-child/#itemlist", "name": "14 Ifs Quotes By Julia Child", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", 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