When I’m home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we’re not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.
Dolly Parton‚Kitchen Confidential‘ wasn’t a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia.
Anthony BourdainMusic was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.
David ByrneI sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.
Adam SandlerThis is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it’s just depressing to me. The poor little kids.
Dolly PartonI’m a decent cook; I’m a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.
Anthony BourdainI was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order.
Erma BombeckWriting’s just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.
Dolly PartonWhat money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.
William Makepeace ThackerayChristmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God’s perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.
Joel OsteenTo me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody’s mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.
Eckhart TolleMy mother always wanted to give back.
Lady GagaIf you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that’s exactly what I did.
Gordon RamsayUpon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.
Herbert HooverWhat we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Helen KellerI like chicken a lot because chicken is generous – that is to say, it’s obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do.
Maya AngelouWho bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen.
Woody AllenThe father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat.
Robert FrostLife began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
George EliotAn author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
Benjamin DisraeliCooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it’s too assertive to the naked eye.
Gordon RamsayMy mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.
Edmund HillaryWhen you cook under pressure you trade perfection.
Gordon RamsayMy mum passing away wasn’t funny, but that funeral and what I went through, the things that happened, looking back at it, there were funny moments. You have to be strong enough to look back at it, to sit and assess the situation.
Kevin HartIn this bright future you can’t forget your past.
Bob MarleyEvery chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine’s not so great.
Anthony BourdainI’ve been writing poems since I was in the Navy – to Rosalynn. I found I could say things in poems that I never could in prose. Deeper, more personal things. I could write a poem about my mother that I could never tell my mother. Or feelings about being on a submarine that I would have been too embarrassed to share with fellow submariners.
Jimmy CarterI was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.
The WeekndAnother suggestion is to cook a meal, maybe not every night, but a couple more times a week than you usually do. That way you have leftovers, and you take your lunch to work.
Michelle ObamaI left Mainz after 18 years and thought, ‚Next time, I will work with a little less of my heart.‘ I said that because we all cried for a week. The city gave us a goodbye party, and it lasted a week.
Jurgen KloppMy mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.
Alice MunroWhen your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.
Erma BombeckIn fact, you couldn’t give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.
J. K. RowlingI still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.
Denzel WashingtonMy mother taught children to love to dance.
Abby Lee MillerI feel that if Jacques Pepin shows you how to make an omelet, the matter is pretty much settled. That’s God talking.
Anthony BourdainOnce you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I’m taking with me when I go.
Erma BombeckI’ve been my mom’s kitchen helper since I was a little kid.
Taylor SwiftTake care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.
Bob DylanI was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.
Angelina JolieMy mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.
Narendra ModiMy personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I’m so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don’t have the guts to take their names out of the book.
Ray BradburyMy relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.
Edmund HillaryMy mother was an Earth Mother and the nicest person in the world.
Angelina JolieI can’t remember what made my dad take us karting for the first time, I can’t remember really. I was into motorsport by then and I knew everything, and every driver, it was around 2009, 2008. That’s when I first properly knew about Formula One. Those were the days.
Lando NorrisI’m just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.
Maya AngelouEvery three months, I’ll say, ‚Honey, I think I should learn how to cook‘.
Angelina JolieLike all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Benjamin DisraeliOnly the pure in heart can make a good soup.
Ludwig van BeethovenWhen I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.
Taylor SwiftMy mom had Julia Child and ‚The Fannie Farmer Cookbook‘ on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes.
Anthony BourdainAnyone who’s a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: ‚Is it good? Does it give pleasure?‘
Anthony BourdainWhen I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It’s like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.
Haruki MurakamiThe mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation.
Eleanor RooseveltMy mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.
Kamala HarrisThe Kobe craze really annoyed me. Most of the practitioners had no real understanding of the product and were abusing it and exploiting it in terrible and ridiculous ways. Kobe beef should not be used in a hamburger. It’s completely pointless.
Anthony BourdainWe forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.
Marcus Tullius CiceroWhen I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill.
Taylor SwiftMy mother made me truly appreciate women.
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