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Quotes About Ham

Dmitri-9: But the one I hated the most was the American space chimp., Ham, they called him. Handsome Ham! 'The John Glenn Of The Apes.' Did that privileged Capitalist shit ever have to drive a tractor?
~ Grant Morrison
compressed into boxes, packed in sawdust,... trussed up in sacks, roped up like hams...
~ Mary Roach
I love making buckwheat crepes with ham, Parmesan cheese, and a fried egg on top. It's my go-to breakfast.
~ Taylor Swift
Deep down, it really is just a meaningless lyric, isn't it? [Sings] "I got soul, but I'm not a soldier". I mean, you may as well be saying "I got ham, but I'm not a hamster"
~ Bill Bailey
I got ham but I'm not a Hamster
~ Bill Bailey
The father was long and thin, with a red face framed in white whiskers, and looking like a living sandwich, a piece of ham carved like a face between two wads of hair.
~ Guy de Maupassant
I'm not a philosopher, I'm just a simple boy from East Ham.
~ David Bailey
Half the dogs in America will receive Christmas presents this year, yet few of us ever pause to consider the life of the pig-an animal easily as intelligent as a dog-that becomes the Christmas ham.
~ Michael Pollan
I would love a sandwich,' said Tybalt, with enough gravity to make it sound like a formal proclamation. Resolved: that we will have ham and cheese sandwiches.
~ Mira Grant
Good Morning to you," the marquis said. "Where is Caroline?" "Damned if I know, but half the ham is missing so I imagine she's come and gone." James whistled. "Mrs. Mickle certainly outdid herself this morning, didn't she? You should have had Caroline move in sooner." Blake shot him an irritated glance. "Well, you must admit that your housekeeper has never gone to such great lengths to keep YOU so well fed.
~ Julia Quinn
You see the dilemma?" Ham asked. "I see an idiot," Breeze mumbled.
~ Brandon Sanderson
In Germany, salads are assemblies of ham and mayonnaise, not trendy tossed leaves.
~ Rachel Johnson
In our family a whole ham on the bone would be bought three days before Christmas, and then stored in a pillow case and left in the fridge so anyone can take the huge thing out and slice it.
~ John Torode
That abominable offspring of Ham and Emzara was the man that Ishtar was after. As the cursed son of Ham, he would be the perfect vehicle through which to breed the Seedline of the Serpent in opposition to the Seedline of the Woman through the chosen son of Noah.
~ Brian Godawa
the toledoth or genealogy, 'These are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood. The sons of Ham were Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.' Now by careful exegesis of the tablet text, I noticed that there was an unusual repetitive reference to 'Ham, the father of Canaan.' Hermeneutics, or the art of textual interpretation, would tell us that such repetition points toward an unusual identity of the object.
~ Brian Godawa
When you think about a post-swim snack at the local pool, you'd be forgiven for thinking ham and cheese toasties, finger buns and red frogs before cassava fries, arepas and Latin tunes.
~ Melissa Leong
What if the Hand of God decides to choke you to death on your next portion of Parma ham?
~ Kevin Toolis
Not that I'm complaining. It was better than my old dream, where Harma Dogshead was feeding me to her pigs." "Harma's dead." Jon said. "But not the pigs. They look at me the way Slayer used to look at ham. Not to say that the wildlings mean us harm. Aye, we hacked their gods apart and made them burn the pieces, but we gave them onion soup. What's a god compared to a nice bowl of onion soup? I could do with mine myself.
~ George R.R. Martin
While it's typical to find steamed clam recipes which include a bit of bacon or sausage, you might not think of adding shredded ham hock, but it's another way to pair the lusty, smoky flavor of animal fat with the briny ocean flavor of shellfish.
~ Tom Douglas
My father and my uncle used to be amateur monologuists because their generation grew up with Henry Irving and the like, and they had that style of delivery, of declamation: 'The Belllllls!' What we call 'ham' now, larger than life.
~ Ron Moody
'J'eet jet?' is still the standard way for a Pittsburgher to ask if you're ready for a meal, but the meal itself is no longer limited to chipped ham and an Iron City beer.
~ Bill Dedman
it means what it say, Ethel said. It means that a Hebrew may not enslave a Hebrew. But the sons of Ham are not of that tribe. The were cursed, with black skin and tails. Where the Scripture condemns slavery, it is not speaking of negro slavery at all.
~ Colson Whitehead
I'll obey them in the winter when the doctors say to me I must give up ham and spinach, and obedient I'll be. To relieve my indigestion in December they can try, But there's none of them can stop me when it's time for cherry pie.
~ Edgar A. Guest
Sardines on the shelves. Almost taste them by looking. Sandwich? Ham and his descendants mustered and bred there. Potted meats. What is home without Plumtree's potted meat? Incomplete. What a stupid ad! Under the obituary notices they stuck it.
~ James Joyce