Ginger Quotes - Page 2

• Ginger Rogers was one of the worst, red-baiting, terrifying reactionaries in Hollywood.

  Joseph Losey

  Red, Hollywood, Roger

  Joseph Losey, Michel Ciment (1985). “Conversations with Losey”, Methuen Publishing

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• I really enjoy making dinner for my kids and my husband - chopping ginger and marinating the tofu.

  Sadie Frost

  Husband, Kids, Tofu

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still young redheads in Britain getting ripped for having red hair. 'Oy, Ginger!'

  Damian Lewis

  Hair, England, Red

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• A Christian might drink only ginger ale at the tavern bar, but there he is already on the way to drinking beer and whiskey. The girl who attends a ball but never dances a step, will soon surrender her body to the lustful embrace of every casual male acquaintance as other dancers do.

  John R. Rice

  Girl, Christian, Drinking

  John R. Rice (2000). “The Ruin of a Christian”, p.100, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• Now, many of us in the Labour Party are conservationists - and we all love the red squirrel. But there is one ginger rodent which we never want to see again - Danny Alexander.

  Harriet Harman

  Party, Squirrels, Rodents

  "Harriet Harman Says 'Ginger Rodent' Comment Was Wrong". www.bbc.com. October 30, 2010.

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• My ginger tabby cat Oscar - he's got his own passport - he comes everywhere with me.

  Ashley Madekwe

  Cat, Oscars, Passports

  "Front Roe: Revenge's Ashley Madekwe Talks Fashion Tips, Hair Extensions, and Cat Passports". Interview with Louise Roe, www.glamour.com. April 6, 2012.

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• My fridge is really just vegan: coconut water, Gatorade (my favorite!), cucumbers, mint, kale, vegetables, ginger, and wheat grass.

  Serena Williams

  Kale, Vegetables, Water

  Source: www.bonappetit.com

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• When I think back about my immediate reaction to that redheads girl, it seems to spring from an appreciation of natural beauty. I mean the heart pleasure you get from looking at speckled leaves or the palimpsested bark of plane trees in Provence. There was something richly appealing to her color combination, the ginger snaps floating in the milk-white skin, the golden highlights in the strawberry hair. it was like autumn, looking at her. It was like driving up north to see the colors.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Appreciation, Spring

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• Oh, God, I'm so lonely. An entire weekend streching ahead with no one to love or have fun with. Anyway, I don't care. I've got a lovely steamed ginger pudding from M&S to put in the microwave.

  Helen Fielding

  Lonely, Fun, Weekend

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• We live thetime that a match flickers; we pop the corkof a ginger-beer bottle, and the earthquake swallows us on the instant. Is it not odd, is it not incongruous, is it not, in the highest sense of human speech, incredible, that we should think so highly of the ginger-beer, and regard so little the devouring earthquake?

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Beer, Thinking, Earthquakes

  1881 Virginibus Puerisque,'Aes Triplex'.

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• I grew up watching old musicals and seeing Ginger Rogers wearing a beautiful fitted bodice that had ostrich feathers. I love how it moved when she danced. Theatrical pieces like that stayed with me. I wanted to grow up to wear those kinds of things.

  Gina Torres

  Beautiful, Growing Up, Kind

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Right now Jack lives with me. Jack is my Jack Russell. I also have a Yorkie named Ginger, but Jack and Ginger can't be in the same place at the same time because she is very jealous. Even if Jack's not in the same state, she would growl if she heard his name.

  Mariah Carey

  Friendship, Dog, Jealous

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• As a dancer I couldn't outdance Ginger Rogers or Eleanor Powell. As a singer I'm no rival to Doris Day. As an actress I don't take myself seriously...I'm the girl the truck drivers love.

  Betty Grable

  Girl, Dancer, Rivals

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• Jamaica has the best coffee, the best sugar, the best ginger and some of the best cocoa in the world.

  Chris Blackwell

  Coffee, Jamaica, World

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• I always have a beard between jobs. I just let it grow until they pay me to shave it. People are quite surprised it's ginger. Sometimes they ask me if dye my hair and I always say 'Wow, no!' I'm 'trans-ginger.'

  James McAvoy

  Jobs, Hair, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The real color of my hair is mouse. I always want to be ginger, which I was when I was born, or blond, because I live in L.A., and I want to look like I go surfing without any physical effort.

  John Lydon

  Real, Color, Hair

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• I've always been quite a proud ginger so I couldn't dye it and betray the other gingers.

  Rupert Grint

  Proud, Betray

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• When I was a little kid I always wanted to be ginger. My best friend was ginger and he was pretty cool.

  Noel Fielding

  Funny, Kids, Humor

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• When I realised I had a facility for humour, I latched on to it, and it gave me confidence and I built my personality around it. So I subconsciously made myself become the funny one so that would be my label rather than the ginger one or the red-faced one.

  Catherine Tate

  Personality, Red, Would Be

  "What I'm not is a cheery person". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.

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• Was that Will?" she said finally. Henry arched one ginger eyebrow. "Perhaps he's been kidnapped and replaced by an automaton," he suggested. "It seems possible..." For once Charlotte could only find herself in agreement.

  Cassandra Clare

  Agreement, Eyebrows, Said

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.425, Simon and Schuster

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• I'd love to play Neil Kinnock. Because of my ginger hair, I thought that was a possibility. He's a hero and a villain in most people's eyes, but I'd like to do that, I think I'd be right for it.

  Jason Flemyng

  Hero, Eye, Thinking

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• As Gloria Steinem said about Ginger Rogers: She was doing everything Fred Astaire was doing, just doing it backwards in high heels. Well, Southern women are doing and enduring what other women have to do and endure, but (at least until recently) they had to do it in heels and hats and white gloves and makeup and a sweet smile, with maybe a glass of bourbon and a cigarette to get them through the magnolia part of being a steel magnolia.

  Michael Malone

  Sweet, Makeup, White

  "January Magazine", January 2002.

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• What's all this talk about me being teamed with Ginger Rogers? I will not have it Leland--I did not go into pictures to be teamed with her or anyone else, and if that is the program in mind for me I will not stand for it. I don't mind making another picture with her but as for this teams idea, it's out.

  Ginger Rogers

  Team, Ideas, Mind

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• Inside my heart, there's a 12-year-old girl who has always wanted to be Ginger Rogers.

  Samantha Bond

  Girl, Heart, Years

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• Nose, nose, jolly red nose,And who gave thee that jolly red nose?Nutmegs and ginger, cinammon and cloves;And they gave me this jolly red nose.

  Francis Beaumont

  Noses, Red, Thee

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