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Quotes About Breakfast

One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast.
~ Robert Brault
I forked a waffle onto a paper plate and went to cut it, but it immediately collapsed into a soggy pile of dough.
~ Lauren Weisberger
Eating plain toast will detonate her. I'll have some honey. When the bread is done I scrape on a microscopic layer of it and pour a cup of coffee, black. She pretends not to listen or watch as I crunch through my breakfast. I pretend that I don't notice her pretending.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
I smile and play pretend through the Morning Show in the kitchen.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
So, she tells me, the words dribbling out with the cranberry muffin crumbs, commas dunked in her coffee.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Breakfast was always a slab of cold black toast and a cup of thick black coffee. Lunch and dinner were always the same—a tin plate piled with a suspicious pilaff, mostly rice with occasional bits of lamb and shreds of vegetable matter of indeterminate origin.
~ Lawrence Block
I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature.
~ Hans-Ulrich Obrist
When you wake up in the morning, Pooh, said Piglet at last, what's the first thing you say to yourself? What's for breakfast? said Pooh. What do you say, Piglet? I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today? said Piglet. Pooh nodded thoughtfully. It's the same thing, he said.
~ A.A. Milne
full Scottish breakfast, which consisted of bacon, eggs, pancakes, toast, black pudding, white pudding, and haggis.
~ Adrian McKinty
It's a pity we have no beer for you. We ran out nearly a year ago. But you need not fear the water. It is very wholesome here." "Pilgrim kids drank beer for breakfast?" "Back in England their water was very polluted and wasn't safe to drink. Beer was actually healthier.
~ Diane Stanley
It was delightful to wake up early and refreshed, and come down to this sunshiny, cheerful breakfast-table, where, though nothing was grand, all was thoroughly comfortable.
~ Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
~ James Joyce
A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
~ Francis Bacon
Muffins are just an American way of saying, 'I eat cake for breakfast.
~ Jenny Colgan
The thing was, Jeremiah was right. I did love him. I knew the exact moment it became real too. Conrad got up early to make a special belated Father's Day breakfast, only Mr. Fisher hadn't been able to come down the night before. He wasn't there the next morning the way he was supposed to be. Conrad cooked anyway, and he was thirteen and a terrible cook, but we all ate it. Watching him serving rubbery eggs and pretending not to be sad, I thought to myself, I will love this boy forever.
~ Jenny Han
Kashi cereal.
~ Jenny Han
I make myself a bowl of Cheerios with sliced banana on top, but I can only force down a few bites.
~ Jenny Han
They tasted a new snack called Cracker Jack and a new breakfast food called Shredded Wheat.
~ Erik Larson
Arrogance is born of insecurity. Pride is different. It is born of dignity, self-worth, and self-respect. We all see the world through the prism of our identity. If our self-worth is low, it affects everything we do. The point of life is to contribute to others, but without a certain self-regard, it is sometimes difficult to make breakfast.
~ Ethan Hawke
I had sadness for breakfast.
~ Andy Milonakis
Gerald Middleton was a man of mildly but persistently depressive temperament. Such men are not at their best at breakfast, nor is the week before Christmas their happiest time.
~ Angus Wilson
The amount of time she had at her disposal made it difficult for her to be late for anything, even for her own breakfast. And she suspected that even if she were to waste time she would still find a way to be entirely punctual, to the intense annoyance of those who had never mastered the art. For it was an art, less to do with courtesy than with modesty. Only grander personalities could afford to assume that others would wait.
~ Anita Brookner
Toast was one of the few things he could cook well.
~ Ann Cleeves
Now, dressing for breakfast, she felt sluggish and tense.
~ Ann Cleeves