--- title: "11 Important Quotes By Julia Child" description: "11 Important quotes by Julia Child. Plus more from Julia Child and more Important sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df2/julia-child-1522_important_no-one-s-more-important-than-people-2507_2507573.jpg" --- > [No one's more important than people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/no-one-s-more-important-than-people/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df2/julia-child-1522_important_no-one-s-more-important-than-people-2507_2507573.jpg) > [One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/one-of-the-important-requirements-for-learning-how-to-cook-is-that/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55f/julia-child-1522_cooks_one-of-the-important-requirements-for-le_1817898.jpg) > [Sooner or later the public will forget you; the memory of you will fade. What's important are the individuals you've influenced along…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/sooner-or-later-the-public-will-forget-you-the-memory-of-you-will/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/397/julia-child-1522_fades_sooner-or-later-the-public-will-forget-y_493003.jpg) > [I think the inner person is the most important… I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/i-think-the-inner-person-is-the-most-important-i-would-like-to-see-an/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89d/julia-child-1522_important_i-think-the-inner-person-is-the-most-imp_841939.jpg) > [“Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/drama-is-very-important-in-life-you-have-to-come-on-with-a-bang-you-2/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/17f/julia-child-1522_bang_drama-is-very-important-in-life-you-have_2947860.jpg) > [I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. If you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/i-still-feel-that-french-cooking-is-the-most-important-in-the-world/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2db/julia-child-1522_cooking_i-still-feel-that-french-cooking-is-the_861874.jpg) > [Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/remember-no-one-s-more-important-than-people-in-other-words/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e13/julia-child-1522_careers_remember-no-one-s-more-important-than-pe_1970570.jpg) > [I don't think about whether people will remember me or not. I've been an ok person. I've learned a lot. I've taught…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/i-don-t-think-about-whether-people-will-remember-me-or-not-i-ve-been/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/46b/julia-child-1522_i-ve-learned_i-don-t-think-about-whether-people-will_391392.jpg) > [I always give my bird a generous butter massage before I put it in the oven. Why? Because I think the chicken…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/i-always-give-my-bird-a-generous-butter-massage-before-i-put-it-in/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f1/julia-child-1522_bird_i-always-give-my-bird-a-generous-butter_1895182.jpg) > [Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/drama-is-very-important-in-life-you-have-to-come-on-with-a-bang-you/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/428/julia-child-1522_done_drama-is-very-important-in-life-you-have_1796150.jpg) > [Of course I made many boo-boos. At first this broke my heart, but then I came to understand that learning how to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/of-course-i-made-many-boo-boos-at-first-this-broke-my-heart-but-then/) [Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0fb/julia-child-1522_becoming_of-course-i-made-many-boo-boos-at-first_1626358.jpg) ## Other authors on Important ## 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/important/julia-child/#itemlist", "name": "11 Important Quotes By Julia Child", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "No one's more important than people.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Julia Child" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/no-one-s-more-important-than-people/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df2/julia-child-1522_important_no-one-s-more-important-than-people-2507_2507573.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df2/julia-child-1522_important_no-one-s-more-important-than-people-2507_2507573.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df2/julia-child-1522_important_no-one-s-more-important-than-people-2507_2507573.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“No one's more important than people.” — Julia Child", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Julia Child" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/one-of-the-important-requirements-for-learning-how-to-cook-is-that/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55f/julia-child-1522_cooks_one-of-the-important-requirements-for-le_1817898.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55f/julia-child-1522_cooks_one-of-the-important-requirements-for-le_1817898.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55f/julia-child-1522_cooks_one-of-the-important-requirements-for-le_1817898.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.” — Julia Child", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Sooner or later the public will forget you; the memory of you will fade. 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