Erma Bombeck Quotes

It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR MICROWAVE. Loosely translated, this means, You're on your own, Bernice.

Erma Bombeck

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  Adam McKay
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• I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
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• Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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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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• At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.

  

  Oliver Reed
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• I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.

  

  Bear Grylls
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• What I love about 'The Chew' is that we have these celebrities come on, and you get to see them in a different light, cooking or enjoying food, when we usually don't see them in that setting. So it's a lot of fun for their fans to see them be normal people and having that commonality of food.

  

  Carla Hall
  • People
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• I was more of a dancing kid than a singing kid. I mean, I sang in school choirs and I sang in school musicals, but I was much more interested in dancing than singing.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
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• My grandparents are from Mexico, so I grew up with great Mexican food.

  

  M. Ward
  • Up
  • Great
  • Food

• If I'm going to the gym or the shops to get food, then I don't need to do anything - I'll just put on a pair of sunnies, and that's enough.

  

  Mallory Jansen
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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
  • Food
  • Service
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• Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Good
  • Family
  • Home

• The usefulness of cow-peas and soy-beans as human food has been recognized only recently in this country.

  

  David F. Houston
  • Country
  • Food

• In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors'.

  

  Emanuel Celler
  • Music
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• I'm a movie buff. My mom would take me to a double feature. We'd come out, go have Chinese food, and then go back into another cinema and see another double feature. I feel I'm a child of the movies.

  

  Loretta Swit
  • Movie
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• Cooking with your kids and engaging them in hands-on activities are two ways to begin to educate children about the healthy eating, and kick start the important task to help change how the younger generation looks at food and nutrition.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Important
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• I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Food
  • Like
  • Cooking

• There was a kid that used to pick on me... he used to drop my food and beat me up in little corners. Nothing serious, but tease me. I remember knocking his food out of his hand one time when he in the middle of explaining something to his friends, and they all laughed, so I thought that was pretty nice. 'Well, there you go buddy.'

  

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• The problem with music was always that the sound system often obliterated the words, and words, not music, have always been what I was about.

  

  Lydia Lunch
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  • Words

• Well, I quit smoking three weeks ago and I had a hard day today not smoking.

  

  Eric Roberts
  • Today
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• For some reason, it is always thrilling to spot your home town in the news.

  

  Craig Brown
  • Home

• It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR MICROWAVE. Loosely translated, this means, You're on your own, Bernice.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Food
  • Mean
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