Quotes About Meals

I'm a big cook and prefer to make meals at home when I can. I'm either cooking, or we're going to a drive-through somewhere. I'm really proud of my homemade sweet potato pie. At Thanksgiving I make five of them because they go quick.

While the Pharisees turned ordinary meals into a practice of ritual holiness, Jesus turned ordinary meals into a practice of the coming of God's kingdom.

Ritzonia" was the epithet coined by Bernard Bernson, who sold Italian pictures to American millionaires, to describe the unreal, mortifying sameness of their luxury. "Ritzonia," he wrote in 1909, "carries its inmates like a wishing carpet from place to place, the same people, the same meals, the same music. Within its walls you might be at Peking or Prague or Paris or London and you would never know where.

We spend millions of dollars per year supplying more than adequate meals and a Koran to every detainee along with a prayer rug that meets their religious standards.

They recalled the lyrics word for word. They had sung them before their meals and meetings, before each combat mission, during the drills, seeing comrades off to the hospital or cemetery.

But my final goal is the kitchen: the big cookstove, with the smells of meals being prepared. I have a soft spot for warming my rear while a woman, usually hefty and in the know, stirs her pots. The way I see it, this is what being human is all about.

Life is monotonous enough at best; you have to eat and sleep about so often. But imagine how DEADLY monotonous it would be if nothing unexpected could happen between meals.

Culinary incompetence could explain the first six or seven meals, but more than that had to be culinary malice.

The family becomes rigid and hard when it excludes others from its meals; those that must be fed provide a natural pretext for the exclusion of others. The hollowness of this pretext is revealed by families which have no children and yet make not the slightest move to share their meal with others. The 'family' of two is man's most contemptible creation.

The garden is the place I go to for refuge and shelter," Elizabeth wrote in the German Garden, "not the house. In the house are duties and annoyances, servants to exhort and admonish, furniture, and meals; but out there blessings crowd round me at every step.

You want coffees with your Happy Meals? Yes, we want coffee with our Happy Meals. It makes them more happy.

I'm a decent cook, and I will try to cook anything. My only weakness is that I don't know servings - I only know how to make a lot.

Smart snacking is an invaluable weapon against cravings and poor food choices. For me, this translates to three meals and two snacks a day, each containing protein, fiber, and healthy fat.

The two biggest meals of your life you don't have to cook and you don't get to eat. The first you don't eat because no man eats - or cares what he eats - at his wedding. The second you don't eat because, well, no man eats at his funeral, either.

I don't always prepare such rich meals. Sometimes I'll just serve a simple quiche, salad and dessert for dinner. During the week I try to eat lightly.

Most families like to spend time bonding over meals out, picnics in the country, maybe weekend camping trips - we take things to the extreme!

My fans are pretty normal, they are always really nice and polite, and they don't interrupt my meals.

The bar for loud family meals is set pretty high when you come from Portugal.

The fall season brings Thanksgiving and the beginning of the holiday season. Sharing meals with family and friends are a key element of this joyful time of the year. We are faced with an abundance of food, and can easily gain extra pounds as a result.

That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of poverty.

I don't cook, 'cause I don't know how to cook.

I'm trying to learn how to cook.

A cookbook is a moment in time because, otherwise, you look back at the end of the day, and all the meals have been eaten, and the experience is gone.

At university, I used to cheat and use precooked meals and then tell my friends that I've cooked it. They thought I had skills!