Meals Quotes - Page 30

• I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a dayspare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote.

  Sylvia Plath

  Cooking, Routine, Three

  1949 Diary entry,13 Nov. Collected in Aurelia Schober Plath (ed) Letters Home by Sylvia Plath,'Diary Supplement' (1949).

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• Eating, and hospitality in general, is a communion, and any meal worth attending by yourself is improved by the multiples of those with whom it is shared.

  Jesse Browner

  Hospitality, Eating, Communion

  Jesse Browner (2004). “The Duchess Who Wouldn't Sit Down: An Informal History of Hospitality”, p.5, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I'll tell you something about tough things. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find the way through. On the Food Network they have these shows where cooks have to put a meal together with all these weird ingredients. That's a lot like my life-dealing with things you wouldn't think ever go together. But a good cook can make the best meal out of the craziest combinations.

  Joan Bauer

  Thinking, Together, Way

  Joan Bauer (2011). “Close to Famous”, p.141, Penguin

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• I think we live in a world where the most important thing is daily life: sharing a space with your family, making meals, being with your people. It's not only the idea of privacy, it's the beauty of the moment, at a time in the world when everything goes really fast - too fast.

  Ana Tijoux

  Thinking, Ideas, Space

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• If you look around the world, the countries with the best environmental practices are the wealthiest. There's a reason for that. If you're worried about where your next meal is going to come from or shelter over your head, your focus is on those things.

  John S. Watson

  Country, Practice, Focus

  "Chevron CEO: Governments - Not Oil Companies - Are Responsible For Finding 'A Better Solution' To Climate". Associated Press interview, thinkprogress.org. January 3, 2013.

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• Outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness. I look down into the warm, earthy world. Into a nest of lovers' beds, baby cribs, meal tables, all the solid commerce of life in this earth, and feel apart, enclosed in a wall of glass.

  Sylvia Plath

  Baby, Stars, Wall

  Sylvia Plath (2000). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962”, Anchor

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• I can actually cook one meal now, as opposed to before, when I could cook nothing. My family are very excited.

  Carey Mulligan

  Excited, My Family, Cooks

  "Bill Nighy, Carey Mulligan, Matthew Beard: interview". Interview With Sarah Crompton, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 10, 2014.

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• Simply to have all the necessities of life and three meals a day will not bring happiness. Happiness is hidden in the unnecessary and in those impractical things that bring delight to the inner person. . . . When we lack proper time for the simple pleasures of life, for the enjoyment of eating, drinking, playing, creating, visiting friends, and watching children at play, then we have missed the purpose of life. Not on bread alone do we live but on all these human and heart-hungry luxuries.

  Edward M Hays

  Happiness, Children, Drinking

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• I'm in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Writing, Clothes, Feelings

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• People tend to stay at home and eat a home-cooked meal. There are three days that are really slow for restaurants - Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.

  Alan K. Simpson

  Christmas, Easter, Home

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• He who shuns the millstone, shuns the meal.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Work

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• If my wife is cooking a meal at home, which is not often, thankfully, but you know, she's doing (oh, she's good at some things) but if she's cooking, you know, she's dealing with people on the phone, she's talking to the kids, she's painting the ceiling, she's doing open-heart surgery over here; if I'm cooking, the door is shut, the kids are out, the phone's on the hook, if she comes in I get annoyed, I say "Terry, please, I'm trying to fry an egg in here, give me a break.".

  Ken Robinson

  Heart, Kids, Home

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• God was someone I wound up turning over and over in my mind each night... Was He punishing me with this meal or was He rewarding me? Did He actively watch me or take me for granted like a fish you don't notice until it's floating on the surface of the tank?

  David Sedaris

  God, Night, Mind

  David Sedaris (2010). “Naked”, p.137, Hachette UK

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• Excluded from all fellowship at meals, excluded from all sacrifices, excluded from instruction and from matrimonial alliances, abject and excluded from all religious duties, let them wander over ,this earth.

  Guru Nanak

  Religious, Sacrifice, Alliances

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• Reservations and cloth napkins are really minor pinnacles in the high sierra of the New York lunch. The zenith, the Mount Whitney of lunches, the noon meal at which all local lines of force converge [is] the Bar Room of the Four Seasons.

  Raymond Sokolov

  New York, Lunch, Four

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• Caregivers of those with a traumatic brain injury had their blood pressure recorded at certain time of day -- at meals and during other activities, .. The blood pressure of the people who had adopted the pets went down dramatically.

  Karen Allen

  Blood, People, Brain

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• You think about some of the most memorable meals you've ever had; the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Memories, Memorable, Thinking

  "Heston Blumenthal: 'My food is really emotional'" by Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2012.

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• We fed 'em Xmas and New Years; now all the poor have to do is just fill the few meals until next Xmas

  Will Rogers

  New Year, Xmas, Years

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• My meals were easily made, for they were all alike and simple, only a cupful of tea and bread.

  John Muir

  Simple, Tea, Bread

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.77, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• When you have helped to raise the standard of cooking, you have helped to raise the only thing in the world that really matters. We only have one or two wars in a lifetime, but we have three meals a day -- there's nothing in the world that we do as much as we do eating.

  Will Rogers

  War, Two, Cooking

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• I used to sleep on the floor in friends' rooms, returning Coke
  bottles for food, money, and getting weekly free meals at a local temple

  Steve Jobs

  Sleep, Bottles, Coke

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• The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit...One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts.

  Saint Basil

  Light, Vegetarianism, Meat

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• I never eat standing up, I never eat in front of the refrigerator. I treat myself very formally with meals. I don't watch TV or read. It's a little bit of a ritual, and it's more enjoyable.

  Mark Morris

  Tvs, Watches, Littles

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• When practiced to its fullest, mindful eating turns a simple meal into a spiritual experience, giving us a deep appreciation of all that went into the meal's creation as well a deep understanding of the relationship between the food on our table, our own health, and our planet's health.

  Nhat Hanh

  Motivational, Spiritual, Appreciation

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• If I do get a handgun, I can take it to the sheriff's department, and in about as much time as it would take me to order a value meal at Wendy's, they will give me a concealed-carry license. There will be no screening at all to see whether I'm qualified to carry a gun in public - which I absolutely am not. That's one of the reasons I haven't gotten a gun in the first place: I don't know how to use one.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Gun, Order, Giving

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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