Lunch Quotes - Page 11

• Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend.

  Brian Jacques

  Littles, Fruit, Enough

  Brian Jacques (1986). “Redwall”, Ace Books

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• A lunch date is more fun than a dinner date; you're not tired. It's a secret that not a lot of other parents told me about.

  Jessica Capshaw

  Fun, Tired, Parent

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• One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast.

  Robert Breault

  Morning, Keys, Up Early

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• I had a cigarette for breakfast, just for beginners,
  Cried for my lunch, and sleep for dinner.

  G. Dep

  Rap, Sleep, Hip Hop

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• I play for the poor man. I try to give a thrill to the lunch bucket fan. I know their plight. I worked in a factory in high school. The poor folk who lay out the hard bread to see a game. That's where my heart lies. The rich don't need heroes.

  Leon Wagner

  Baseball, Lying, Hero

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• One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters, they were in reality standing up for what is best in the American dream and for the most sacred values in our Judaeo-Christian heritage, thereby bringing our nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in their formulation of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Dream, Children

  "Why we can't wait".

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• I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work.

  Lee Iacocca

  Determination, Fall, Hard Work

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• Havin lunch and debatin Ferrari prices. 23 and goin through a midlife crisis.

  Drake

  Life, Humble, Car

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• I had lunch the other day with my niece, Emma, and she said, 'You're so smart, Aunt Julia.' And I wanted to say, 'I'm not smart - I'm 41! You're 17!'

  Julia Roberts

  Smart, Niece, Aunt

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• Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity.

  William Petersen

  Goodbye, Farewell, Night

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• I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what was going on with every single ingredient, I could be qualifying for, like, the lunch food job at my daughter's school.

  Alton Brown

  Mother, Daughter, Jobs

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• My very sassy, older southern sister is very quick to point out that it's a luxury that my daughter gets to come to work with me. She does, and I have lunch with her every single day. My mom says I have 'high class problems.'

  Angela Kinsey

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

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• Singer and actress Gertrude Lawrence once overheard an assistant describing the beauty of a coat she knew she could never even dream of affording. Having ascertained the exact shop, coat and price, Ms. Lawrence returned from her lunch break wearing that coat, apparently in order to flaunt and emphasize her greater purchasing power and, by inference, her superior status.

  Sheridan Morley

  Dream, Order, Lunch Break

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• There's a counter for every hold and a hold for every counter, and a lunch counter for every person that you know Schivone.

  Bobby Heenan

  Wrestling, Persons, Knows

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• Every day after lunch when I was writing my first book, I'd nibble a square of fine chocolate and meditate on all that had gone into its creation: the sun and rain that spilled on the cocoa plant, the soil that nourished it, the hands that picked the beans, and so on. My taste of chocolate became a lesson on the interconnectedness of things, and the infinite blessings for which I am grateful.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Rain, Book, Grateful

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• The Prophet introduced a system of prayer in that it was interwoven into man's daily work: a prayer in the morning when he arose from his bed; a prayer at lunch time, as an indication that if his body needed a diet, so did his spirit; a prayer in the afternoon when he retired from his daily work; a prayer at sunset and a prayer when going to bed.

  Muhammad Ali

  Morning, Prayer, Sunset

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• A man commented to his lunch companion: My wife had a funny dream last night. She dreamed she'd married a millionaire. You're lucky, sighed the companion. My wife dreams that in the daytime.

  Sam Ewing

  Dream, Night, Men

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• I think personal diplomacy has caused a lot of mischief and harm, and has impeded the progress of peace in the world. It leads to a very great fallacy - the almost pathetic belief of some Foreign Ministers - that, if they had lunch with someone and called him by his Christian name, they have changed the fundamental facts of relationship between nations.

  Paul Hasluck

  Leadership, Christian, Thinking

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• After lunch we went into the garden for coffee and I turned on the Surgeon-General with his graphics, percentages etc. of sick and wounded to entertain the Premier.

  Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

  War, Coffee, Garden

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• A typical wine writer was once described as someone with a typewriter who was looking for his name in print, a free lunch, and a way to write off his wine cellar. It's a dated view. Wine writers now use computers.

  Frank J. Prial

  Writing, Wine, Typewriters

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• I don't spend much time in it. I go in there for my lunch and for coffee in the afternoon. I'd rarely be in there at night. I don't think it's neccessarily a bad thing but if it's abused obviously it's a bad thing.

  Lucinda Creighton

  Coffee, Gay, Night

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• What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger?

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Democracy, Hamburgers, Ifs

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• Being aggressive is a lot less risky in the end. Are you going to eat your lunch, or have your lunch eaten for you.

  William Esrey

  Ends, Aggressive

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• Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

  Barry Commoner

  Nature, Environment, Ecology

  "Barry Commoner, scientist and influential environmentalist, dies at 95" by Matt Schudel, www.washingtonpost.com. October 2, 2012.

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• Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up for work despite rain or snow or dark of night and slugs it out day after day.

  Steven Pressfield

  Attitude, Rain, Dark

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