Kitchen Quotes
892 quotes by 686 authors
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For toddlers I suggest leaving their mittens on year-round, indoors and out. That way they can't get into aspirin bottles, liquor cabinets, or boxes of…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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There is nothing to learn about love. Everything is already there, in our genes, in our nature. We don't have to learn anything except what…
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.
— George Bernard Shaw
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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…
— Madam C. J. Walker
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I learned respect for womanhood from my father's tender caring for my mother, my sister, and his sisters. Father was the first to arise from…
— Robert D. Hales
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Like the Sweetness of Gardenias Mother, you died 15 years ago. pain, a rapier, cut until, finally, there was just peace like the sweetness of…
— Wallace Stevens
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Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery, and to place…
— Thomas Jefferson
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We have dominated and overruled nature, and from now on the earth is ours, a kitchen garden until we learn to make our own chlorophyll…
— Lewis Thomas
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There are may of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard not to agree that we…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are…
— A. S. Byatt
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When accepting the American Film Institute Life Achievement award: I beg permission to mention by name only four people who have given me the most…
— Alfred Hitchcock
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Because drug dealers shoot each other in London, Norfolk farmers can't have guns to defend their homes. I mean, no one wants a gun -…
— Jeremy Clarkson
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Everywhere you look, there is a charity or a project in school to get involved in. In eighth grade, there was this program called CJSF,…
— Lindsey Shaw
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Banish (the onion) from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it. Its presence lends color and enchantment to the most modest dish; its absence…
— Elizabeth Robins Pennell
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Our humanist community should be thinking more about demonstrating the fundamental truth that goodness requires neither God nor the belief in God by organizing together…
— Rebecca Goldstein
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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…
— Elizabeth David
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When I'm old and gray, I want to have a house by the sea. And paint. With a lot of wonderful chums, good music, and…
— Ava Gardner
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Banish the onion from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it.
— Elizabeth Robins Pennell
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Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.
— Charles Buck
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On opening sentences: "If in the first chapter a hurricane is going to blow down an oak tree which falls through the kitchen roof, there's…
— James Thayer
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