Confidence Quote 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…

— Julia Child

If you are going to flip something, you must have the courage of your convictions.

— 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…

— Julia Child

I never feel lonely in the kitchen. Food is very friendly.

— Julia Child

We are so bemused by our own petard, that we are unable to look at things objectively.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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:…

— Julia Child

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

— 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…

— Julia Child

I was kind of an innocent hayseed from a middle-class, utterly nonintellectual background.

— Julia Child