Blanket Quote by Colson Whitehead Download Open image “Sanctimony and self-regard are as American as smallpox blankets and supersize meals.” — Colson Whitehead ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blanket Meals Self Smallpox
“Producing and eating our own food is, historically, much of what made us Americans and not subjects of European powers. While other colonies required… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
There is a hidden epidemic threatening the lives of millions of Americans...hunger. In this land of plenty, it is unthinkable that fellow citizens are… — Swoosie Kurtz Copy Share Image
Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the kind. Culture… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“With few ingrained food habits, Americans are among the least tradition-bound of food cultures, easily swayed by fashions and influences from other countries.” — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
“Moribund cultures are fertile fields for fearful, fatalistic worldviews.” — Vishal Mangalwadi Copy Share Image
The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's midst --reinforces the association… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Eating organs, in 1943, could degrade one’s social standing. Americans preferred bland preparations of muscle meat partly because for as long as they could… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Food is national security. Food is craft. Food is everything, when you think about it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Ever more scholars see cultures as a kind of mental infection or parasite, with humans as its unwitting host. Organic parasites, such as viruses,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“we could eradicate smallpox from nature, but we could not uproot the virus from the human heart” — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). Perhaps if there were a sport centered… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I want to keep growing as a writer. I find myself doing unexpected projects and sort of challenging my idea of where I am… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Every Tuesday, James Fulton (and later, Orville Lever) stood in the downstairs drawing room and lectured on the intricacies of his science. Lectured on… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I started writing in the '90s, so I was free to just have an eccentric career and not conform to some idea of what… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“The Great War had always been between the white and the black. It always would be. Cora” — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“The worst sort of scoundrels took up the chase. Drunkards, incorrigibles, poor whites who didn’t even own shoes delighted in this opportunity to scourge… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Don’t go searching for a subject, let your subject find you. You can’t rush inspiration. … Once your subject finds you, it’s like falling… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“its terms? Homer watched her as she dressed, like a valet who had waited on her since the cradle. “I’m caught,” Cora said. “You… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
These days I find myself wanting to avoid being pigeon-holed, ghettoized, held in a different category than other authors. And when people ask me… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Part of any book is establishing the rules at the end of the world. My first book, 'The Intuitionist,' takes place in an alternative… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
There's always an attack on the sophomore novel from some quarters. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Someone else who liked what I did might turn around and say, "She's reworking and rethinking everything. She could just be making blankets now,… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
Old ladies in wheelchairs with blankets over their legs, I don't think so...retired mermaids. — Milton Jones Copy Share Image
When we go... to bear witness to life on the streets, we're offering ourselves. Not blankets, not food, not clothes, just ourselves. — Bernie Glassman Copy Share Image
Never walk near the bed; to a ghost your ankle is your most vulnerable part-once in bed, you're safe; he may lie around under… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
You'll see that it'll take more than five and a half months to wipe away peel;scrape away the blanket of ignorance that has been… — Matthew Antoine Copy Share Image
The trainee knew he should leave, but he was unable to look away. He'd never seen anything snap out so fast or strike so… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that… — Dakota Fanning Copy Share Image
What I really want is to sit next to someone under an L.L. bean blanket on the beach in the fall and drink coffee… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Often, equipment can as easily function as a security blanket for musicians unwilling or unable to risk anything personal in the studio. Whether one… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
Whenever I get on stage, I feel safe and in control. Life can be so uncertain, but on stage, I always know how a… — Kate O'Mara Copy Share Image
I wanted this album to sound like a big crocheted blanket - to be warm yet to have a lot of space. — Deana Carter Copy Share Image
