Kitchen Quotes
892 quotes by 666 authors
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My mother began to go crazy. Not in a 'Let's paint the kitchen red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwhich,…
— Augusten Burroughs
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When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? The great armistices…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Once upon a time there was a woman who was just like all women. And she married a man who was just like all men.…
— Elizabeth Smart
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She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved…
— Harper Lee
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There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at…
— Elizabeth Berg
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You wake up one morning and there it is, sitting in an old plaid bathrobe in your kitchen, unpleasant and unshaved. You look at it,…
— Marya Hornbacher
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Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dragged me into the suicide debate…
— Susanna Kaysen
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I stood there in the kitchen, watching her staring across the meadow still searching for her nemesis and I thought, suddenly, that this is all…
— William Boyd
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Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.
— Julia Child
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I only know that all of those people would have sensed me that night, excluding the youngest of the children. I was the suggestion. I…
— Markus Zusak
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The evenings grew longer; kitchen windows stayed open after dinner and peepers could be heard in the marsh. Isabelle, stepping out to sweep her porch…
— Elizabeth Strout
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I believe the poor fierce-eyed child had figured out that with a mere fifty dollars in her purse she might somehow reach Broadway or Hollywood…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Terry Kitchen asked me one time why, since I had so few gifts as a husband and father, I had gotten married. And I heard…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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I never asked my mother where babies came from but I remember clearly the day she volunteered the information....my mother called me to set the…
— Sloane Crosley
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The children were overwhelmingly morbid. Not a single adult asked me where butterflies go when they die, but this question was more popular than pixie…
— Sloane Crosley
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I gave my mother a matching set [of mugs] for Christmas, and she accepted them as graciously as possible, announcing that they would make the…
— David Sedaris
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I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat…
— Langston Hughes
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Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way
— Paul Theroux
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She stood in his kitchen, watching him toy with the ring in his lip. It wasn't quite that he was biting it, but sucking it…
— Melissa Marr
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He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head,…
— Charles Dickens
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