Jacqueline Woodson Quotes
When I was a child, we never began a meal without prayer. We thanked God for the food, for each other.
Jacqueline Woodson
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Food can change anything.
Laura Esquivel
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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Nobody wants to be on food stamps, but when my family lost everything, we were grateful for it. I was grateful the program was there so I could concentrate on my schoolwork and not on my empty belly. We were grateful that we had the support we needed to roll up our sleeves and rebuild our lives.
Tammy Duckworth
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God was going to be to me the father that I never had, the father that I didn't have enough of, enough time with.
Natalie Cole
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Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
Faith Evans
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There's a Nina Simone record that I love, 'Live at Vine Street,' and she sings flat on it. I can imagine she might've told the record label, 'Oh, God, you're not releasing that!' But I'm glad they did.
Damien Rice
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Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.
Oliver Cromwell
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I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.
Frances Mayes
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Well, sometimes if I go out to dinner with my family, people will come up to me and put their hand across my plate for me to shake, sometimes when I have a bite of food in my mouth. I find this a bit disturbing.
Abdul Qadeer Khan
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I never thought, 'Oh God, I'm in Prince's shadow.' He'd been performing for years, and he was my teacher.
Vanity
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I try to shield my children as far as possible from the public glare. I want them to have a normal childhood like we had. We went to school by the school bus, had school food... There was no special treatment given to us. The same applies to my children as well.
Karisma Kapoor
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Whenever I'd go to restaurants, the main chef came out and was cooking for me, and he's asking me how the food is. I get, like, VIP service, so it's weird.
Inbee Park
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I grew up eating fried food. I thought that macaroni and cheese was a vegetable.
Lauren Alaina
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A plate of food has to have balance. For example, a mild fish like skate mustn't be overwhelmed by the side dishes. They should have personality and color, but they also have to be subtle.
Geoffrey Zakarian
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When we write, we complement each other. We wrote six songs, Barry and I, while Robin was ill during the American tour, and they were terrible until Robin came back, and then everything worked out.
Maurice Gibb
Bee Gees
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I enjoy being a girl.
Paloma Faith
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We lived in just a studio apartment with just a room and a bed that came out of the wall, and my mom couldn't afford even a Happy Meal. We ate Top Ramen. I had no toys, and I had, like, two shirts, a pair of jeans, and that was it. But I had my mom to myself, and I remember it being the coolest period of time. I loved it. I really loved it.
Brie Larson
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When I was a child, we never began a meal without prayer. We thanked God for the food, for each other.
Jacqueline Woodson
