Meals Quotes - Page 24

• Every meal should be prepared with love and eaten in peace, because its purpose is to strengthen us for the service of Love.

  Catherine Doherty

  Purpose, Should, Be Prepared

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• The life of a family is filled with beautiful moments: rest, meals together, walks in the park or the countryside, visits to grandparents or to a sick person... But if love is missing, joy is missing, nothing is fun. Jesus gives always gives us that love: he is its endless source. In the sacrament he gives us his word and he gives us the bread of life, so that our joy may be complete.

  Pope Francis

  Beautiful, Jesus, Fun

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• Sin is like an incredible meal that becomes poisonous venom in your stomach. What you eat on Earth you may digest in Hell.

  LeCrae

  Earth, May, Sin

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• Now they got to look into me loving Tea Cake and see whether it was done right or not! They don't know if life is a mess of corn-meal dumplings, and if love is a bed-quilt!

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Quilts, Love Is, Loving Life

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.10, University of Illinois Press

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• Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Morning, Writing, Sleep

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.51

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• It is surely no mere coincidence that the land of the emancipated and enthroned woman is also the land of canned soup, of canned pork and beans, of whole meals in cans, and of everything else ready made.

  H. L. Mencken

  Food, Land, Pork

  H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.11, 谷月社

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• I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we had a bookcase in the kitchen filled with cookbooks. I would eat all my meals reading about meals I could have been having.

  Samantha Bee

  Reading, Kids, Thinking

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• For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which doesn't sound like much but it's actually pretty hard to manage. Because I'm not allowed to do a make-up day. I can't do two pages the next day. The punishment for not completing my page is that I have to eat a vegetarian meal the next day.

  Dan Chaon

  Writing, Two, Next Day

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• If eating out, order your meal and ask the server to wrap up half of the portion to take home with your for the next day, keeping your portion size in check, and stretching your dollar into two meals.

  Cat Cora

  Home, Order, Two

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• My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home. The house was run by my mother, and because there were 10 or so kids, there was no time for individual attention. It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from.

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  Mother, Running, Father

  "Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje: 'I didn't want to be black. So I joined the skinheads...'" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2012.

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• Dinner is a great first date. Don't believe that stuff about girls not wanting to eat on a first date - sharing a romantic meal is so sexy.

  Carmen Electra

  Girl, Sexy, Believe

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• Whatever hardships there have been in my life I still live in a very privileged position. Fear is not knowing where your next meal is coming from. Fear is seeing a child get hurt. Fear is watching someone you love waste away. Fear is knowing you are going to die yourself. But there's no fear in what I do. I write books.

  James Frey

  Hurt, Children, Book

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• My parents both worked full time. I remember a lot of simple meals. Everything I know about cooking is self-schooled.

  Tyler Florence

  Simple, Self, Parent

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• Ben & Jerry's is an indulgent dessert that should be eaten in moderation. You should not be replacing more than one meal a day with ice cream. We do not consider a pint or a tub of ice cream to be a single serving.

  Jerry Greenfield

  Ice Cream, Tubs, Dessert

  Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2008.

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• An ugly woman cooks your meals on time, and she'll always treat you kind.

  Jimmy Soul

  Ugly, Kind, Treats

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• I let her do some of my laundry and she slipped in a few meals in between, and next thing I remember, she was all moved in.

  Jackson Browne

  Next, Remember, Laundry

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• If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too big sails to too small a ship, too big meals to too small a body, too big powers to too small a soul - the result is bound to be a complete upset. In an outburst of hubris the overfed body will rush into sickness, while the jack-in-office will rush into the unrighteousness that hubris always breeds.

  Plato

  Law, Giving, Office

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• I think that a lot of us at home are iron chefs in their own right in that we have to come up with meals real quickly.

  Jose Garces

  Real, Home, Thinking

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• For some students, school is the only place where they get a hot meal and a warm hug. Teachers are sometimes the only ones who tell our children they can go from an Indian reservation to the Ivy League, from the home of a struggling single mom to the White House.

  Denise Juneau

  Mom, Teacher, Children

  "2012 Democratic National Convention: Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by The Honorable Denise Juneau". Reuters, September 05, 2012.

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• And, I believe that one of the most loving things you can do is prepare a meal for someone you love. None of which I know how to do!

  Gayle King

  Believe, Someone You Love, Know How

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• Art shows us that human beings still matter in a world where money talks the loudest, where computers know everything about us, and where robots fabricate our next meal and also our ride there.

  John Maeda

  Art, World, Matter

  "If Design's No Longer the Killer Differentiator, What Is?" by John Maeda, www.wired.com. September 21, 2012.

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• It's very clear that there's a lot of double standards going on. Should there be a 30mph speed limit? Of course there bloody should. And certainly with kids and school food, kids need to be nannied for sure. So give them a bloody good meal at school.

  Jamie Oliver

  School, Kids, Giving

  "Jamie Oliver: 'No one understands me. No one'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2010.

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• Agribusinesses should never dictate the quality of school meals.

  Jared Polis

  School, Quality, Agribusiness

  "Rep. Polis gets crusty about pizza" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. May 15, 2012.

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• Oddly enough, I'm not religious but I'm also very fond of St Peter's in Rome. When I'm there, I always know there's a good meal not far away.

  Jonathan Pryce

  Religious, Rome, Far Away

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

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• I'm a real low profile guy. So a date night for me is kind of curled up at home and watching something... have a nice glass of wine, a nice meal and we're all set.

  Vincent Piazza

  Real, Nice, Home

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