Kitchen Quotes - Page 15

• A home is a place where a pot of fresh soup simmers gently on the hob, filling the kitchen with soft aromas . . . and filling your heart, and later your tummy, with joy.

  Keith Floyd

  Home, Heart, Joy

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• From time immemorial, soups and broths have been the worldwide medium for utilizing what we call the kitchen byproducts or as the French call them, the 'dessertes de la table' (leftovers), or 'les parties interieures de la bete', such as head, tail, lights, liver, knuckles and feet.

  Louis Pullig De Gouy

  Party, Food, Light

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• You can't take the heat, get ya ass out the kitchen
  Matter fact, take ya ass back in there and wash the dishes.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Rap, Hip Hop, Matter

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• Get wreck in the kitchen like she on the Cooking Channel,
  And then hide the heat in the car door...
  God damn, she's a mother-to-be, ya hope for twins,
  Give me a whole tribe!
  And be as sexy as Janet was on the cover of Vibe.

  Sadat X

  Mother, Sexy, Rap

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• Something I didn't even know was on my bucket list has been achieved. I have cooked Thanksgiving dinner with Martha Stewart. I vow to follow the gospel of her teachings and do my very best in the remarkably less glamorous kitchen of my own home... without the luxury of magically appearing prep bowls filled by a staff of sous chefs.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  Thanksgiving, Teaching, Home

  "Turkey Day" by Jesse Tyler Ferguson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2011.

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• A good kitchen should be sufficiently remote from the principal apartments of the house, that the members, visitors, or guests of the family, may not perceive the odour incident to cooking, or hear the noise of culinary operations.

  Isabella Beeton

  House, Cooking, Guests

  Isabella Beeton (2000). “Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management: Abridged edition”, p.101, OUP Oxford

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• We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen.

  Joseph Conrad

  Food, Views, Meditation

  Joseph Conrad, Harold Ray Stevens, J. H. Stape (2010). “Last Essays”, p.113, Cambridge University Press

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• But, lady, as women, what wisdom may be ours if not the philosophies of the kitchen? Lupercio Leonardo spoke well when he said: 'how well one may philosophize when preparing dinner.' And I often say, when observing these trivial details: had Aristotle prepared vituals [sic], he would have written more.

  Juana Inés de la Cruz

  Philosophy, Cooking, Details

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• Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.

  John Dryden

  Frost, Cost, Cookery

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations”, p.455

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• Give me the provisions and whole apparatus of a kitchen, and I would starve.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Food, Giving, Cooking

  Michel de Montaigne, Marvin Lowenthal (1999). “The Autobiography of Michel de Montaigne: Comprising the Life of the Wisest Man of His Times : His Childhood, Youth, and Prime : His Adventures in Love and Marriage, at Court, and in Office, War, Revolution, and Plague : His Travels at Home and Abroad : His Habits, Tastes, Whims, and Opinions”, p.92, David R. Godine Publisher

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• The kitchen is the great laboratory of the household, and much of the 'weal and woe' as far as regards bodily health, depends on the nature of the preparations concocted within its walls.

  Isabella Beeton

  Wall, Food, Preparation

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• Tears mess up your makeup.

  Julia Child

  Makeup, Tears, Mess

  "Julia Child: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. August 15, 2014.

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• Our kitchen is warm; it's who we are. And it has everything. Honestly, I could get rid of the rest of the house and just live in the kitchen.

  Ralph Lauren

  House, Who We Are, Just Live

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• It's like walking on a 1970 blaze orange shag carpet in a kitchen.

  Cody Lundin

  Orange, Survival, Carpet

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• The rule of thumb for the old backpacking was that the weight of your pack should equal the weight of yourself and the kitchen range combined. Just a casual glance at the full pack sitting on the floor could give you a double hernia and fuse four vertebrae. After carrying the pack all day, you had to remember to tie one leg to a tree before you dropped it. Otherwise you would float off into space. The pack eliminated the need for any special kind of ground-gripping shoes, because your feet would sink a foot and a half into hard-packed earth, two inches into solid rock.

  Patrick F. McManus

  Journey, Feet, Hiking

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• My songs examine and explore little specific emotions or situations or stories... They're kitchen table songs, like a conversation between me and one other person. It's almost like an alien has been sent to get emotional samples from human beings and put it all together on a record.

  KT Tunstall

  Song, Emotional, Together

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• The Beautiful is everywhere; perhaps more in the arrangement of your saucepans on the white walls of your kitchen than in your eighteenth-century living room or in the official museums.

  Fernand Leger

  Beautiful, Wall, Museums

  Carolyn Lanchner, Fernand Léger, Jodi Hauptman, Matthew Affron (1998). “Fernand Léger: [Exposición] The Museum of Modern Art, New York, February 15-May 12, 1998”, p.124, The Museum of Modern Art

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• Spinach and champagne. Going back to the kitchens at the old Waldorf. Dancing on the kitchen tables, wearing the chef's headgear. Finally, a crash and being escorted out by the house detectives.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Dancing, House, Tables

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• When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.

  J. Courtney Sullivan

  Dog, Drinking, Feet

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• When we haven't the time to listen to each other's stories we seek out experts to tell us how to live. The less time we spend together at the kitchen table, the more how-to books appear in the stores and on our bookshelves. But reading such books is a very different thing than listening to someone' s lived experience. Because we have stopped listening to each other we may even have forgotten how to listen, stopped learning how to recognize meaning and fill ourselves from the ordinary events of our lives. We have become solitary; readers and watchers rather than sharers and participants.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Book, Reading, Listening

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.23, Penguin

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• I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of responsibility. We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scurry.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Responsibility, Light, Objectivity

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.213, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• In the kitchen, yams ery'where

  2 Chainz

  Yams

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• Today I know that all things are watching, that nothing goes unseen, that even wallpaper has a better memory than human beings. It's not God in his heaven who sees everything. A kitchen chair, a clothes hanger, a half-filled ashtray, or the wooden replica of a woman named Niobe can serve perfectly well as an unforgetting witness to our every deed.

  Gunter Grass

  Memories, Clothes, Heaven

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• Here was this man Tom Guthrie in Holt standing at the back window in the kitchen of his house smoking cigarettes and looking out over the back lot where the sun was just coming up.

  Kent Haruf

  Men, House, Smoking

  FaceBook post by Kent Haruf from Oct 29, 2011

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• So let me get this straight. You find yourself in the kitchen. You see an éclair in the receptacle... and you think to yourself: "What the hell, I'll just eat some trash."

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Thinking, Finding Yourself, Eclairs

  "Fictional character: Jerry Seinfeld". TV Series "Seinfeld" ("The Gymnast", 1994), www.imdb.com. 1989–1998.

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