Hamburgers Quotes - Page 3

• If you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state, and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever. But if you provide a child with a rotten education, nothing happens, except that you're liable to be given more money to do it with. Well, we've discovered that money alone isn't the answer.

  Ronald Reagan

  Education, Children, Agency

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1990). “Ronald Reagan”

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• If India is an emerging economy with millions of new consumers, sell them the Volvo. Sell them the Cielo car. Sell them whatever you can, hamburgers and KFCs. It’s the middle classes who have moved into being able to own a car, a refrigerator. For them there is this mantra that the General Electric refrigerator is better than some other model, that the Cielo car is fancier than the Ambassador.

  Vandana Shiva

  Class, Kfc, Car

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life standing deep in his own excrement in a feedlot, helping to pollute the local streams. Or that the calf that yielded the veal cutlet on her plate spent its life in a box in which it did not have room to turn around. Wendell Berry, "The Pleasures of Eating," What Are People For?, 1989 Jesus pioneered a relationship ethic based on compassion. Being a disciple means building relationships - with the Creator and with all creation and creatures.

  Leonard Sweet

  Jesus, Mean, Animal

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• Forests and meat animals compete for the same land. The prodigious appetite of the affluent nations for meat means that agribusiness can pay more than those who want to preserve or restore the forest. We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet – for the sake of hamburgers

  Peter Singer

  Mean, Animal, Gambling

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• It's born of sheer laziness. My signature dishes are salads, hamburgers and popcorn. That's not the kind of stuff that gets you an entry in the distinguished book of culinary records. Being known for great soufflé is one thing but a good hamburger? What would they say? "Yeah, he really knew how to put the cheese on."

  Paul Newman

  Book, Popcorn, Records

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• I narrowed my eyes at him. "Stuff that. I'll write a doctoral thesis. Then I can go do what most of the other people with doctoral degrees in anthropology do." "What's that?" asked Calvin. "You don't need to encourage her," said Adam seriously, but his eyes laughed at me. "The same thing that people with degrees in history do," I said. "Fix cars or serve frnech fries and bad hamburgers.

  Patricia Briggs

  Writing, Eye, People

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “River Marked”, p.104, Penguin

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• 'I'd like a hamburger and a coke, please.'
  'Sir, we don't serve negroes here.'
  'Ma'am, I don't eat negroes. I'd like a hamburger and a coke.'

  Joseph Lowery

  Coke, Please

  Speech honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., Clemson University, January 17, 2005.

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• To eat well, I always disagree with critics who say that all restaurants should be fine dining. You can get a Michelin star if you serve the best hamburger in the world.

  David Chang

  Stars, Dining, World

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• Ketchup is great on hamburgers, but if some gets on your shirt, that does not make your shirt also a hamburger.

  Bill Engvall

  Doe, Shirts, Ketchup

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• The same rightists who decades ago were shouting, 'Better dead than red!' are now often heard mumbling, 'Better red than eating hamburgers.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Red, Eating, Shouting

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• They figured out a way to control that hamburger disease. You dip the hamburger into the scalding hot coffee before eating.

  David Letterman

  Coffee, Hot, Disease

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• The British hamburger thus symbolised, with savage neatness, the country's failure to provide its ordinary people with food which did anything more for them than sustain life.

  Clive James

  Country, Food, People

  Clive James (2013). “The Complete Unreliable Memoirs”, p.294, Pan Macmillan

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• There is something wrong when you wait in line thirty minutes to get a hamburger that was cooked for ninety seconds an hour ago.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Waiting, Lines, Hours

  Lewis Grizzard (1995). “Life Is Like a Dogsled Team . . . If You're Not the Lead Dog, the Scenery Never Changes: The Wit and Wisdom of Lewis Grizzard”, Longstreet Press

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• "Clear-cutting" was the word for what the Rusties had done to the old forests: felling every tree, killing every living thing, turning entire countries into grazing land. Whole rain forests had been consumed, reduced from millions of interlocking species to a bunch of cows eating grass, a vast web of life traded for cheap hamburgers. "Look, we're not clear-cutting. All we're doing is pulling out the garbage that the Rusties left behind,” David said. "It just takes a little surgery to do it."

  Scott Westerfeld

  Country, Rain, Cutting

  "Uglies". Book by Scott Westerfeld, 2005.

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• On adultery: "Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home?

  Paul Newman

  Home, Fool, Adultery

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• I can't see any point to hanging around a Burger King all day, no matter how much money you make. .... I'll tell you why. Your life would depend on the random desires of people who wanted a hamburger. So you can just forget about Burger King.

  Charles Willeford

  Kings, People, Desire

  Charles Willeford (2009). “Miami Blues”, p.105, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Anybody who doesn't think that the best hamburger place in teh world is in his home town is a sissy.

  Calvin Trillin

  Home, Thinking, World

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• It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others.... People who have good jobs are happy, rich, and well dressed. People who have bad jobs are unhappy, poor and use meat extenders. Those who seek dignity in the type of work that compels them to help hamburgers are certain to be disappointed.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Jobs, People, Unhappy

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.23, Vintage

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• It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life standing deep in his own excrement in a feedlot, helping to pollute the local streams. Or that the calf that yielded the veal cutlet on her plate spent its life in a box in which it did not have room to turn around.

  Wendell Berry

  Animal, Rooms, Helping

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.148, Counterpoint

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• We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers

  Peter Singer

  Gambling, Agribusiness, Sake

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• We’re never satisfied when it comes to food. ‘You know what’d be good on this burger? A ham sandwich. Instead of a bun, let’s use two donuts. That way we can have it for breakfast. Look out McGriddle. Here comes the donut-ham-hamburger!’

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Humor, Two

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• Puberty for me was graduating from Thousand Island salad dressing to Caesar salads. It was like going from hot dogs and hamburgers to beef stroganoff, or from ice cream in a cone to creme brulee.

  Richard Simmons

  Dog, Islands, Ice Cream

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

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• For the rest of my life I'll be thinking about that hamburger. I'll be sitting there at the counter, holding it in my hands with tears streaming down my cheeks. The waitress will be looking away because she doesn't like to see kids crying when they are eating hamburgers.

  Richard Brautigan

  Kids, Thinking, Hands

  Richard Brautigan (2011). “So The Wind Won't Blow It All Away”, p.1, Canongate Books

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• I went to a restaurant, and I saw a guy wearing a leather jacket, eating a hamburger, drinking a glass of milk. I said, "Dude, you are a cow. The metamorphosis is complete. Don't fall asleep or I will tip you over!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Drinking, Fall

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• Writing is not a McDonald's Hamburger.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Mcdonalds

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.46, Shambhala Publications

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