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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• I always thought George Bush was more oblivious than mean, but oblivious can quickly go to mean.

  

  Adam McKay
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  • Thought
  • Go

• 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.
  • Food
  • Green
  • Grow

• 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
  • Life
  • Important
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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
  • Up
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• I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.

  

  Bear Grylls
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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
  • School
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  • Singing

• 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
  • Food
  • Need
  • Gym

• 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
  • Weird

• 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
  • Different
  • House

• 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.'

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Up
  • Time
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• This June, I'll travel once again to the Food and Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen, Colorado. For many years, my dear friend Julia Child and I have teamed up to teach classes together at the event; for the past seven years, my daughter, Claudine, has been my cooking partner on stage.

  

  Jacques Pepin
  • Up
  • Together
  • Past

• 'Iron Chef America' is so real. Imagine putting on television the whole process of making that food, the technique. It's all about technique. It doesn't even matter if you show the faces sometimes.

  

  Alex Guarnaschelli
  • Real
  • America
  • Food

• Food is entertainment now. People tune into 'Top Chef,' and they're not trying to replicate the recipes. Anthony Bourdain is entertainment. Instagramming your dishes is entertainment.

  

  David Sax
  • People
  • Trying
  • Food

• I've prioritized taking care of my mind, having fun, and doing things that make me laugh. And eating well - as in, really good food, like steak or pasta or fresh vegetables or an amazing dessert. You know, 'treat yo'self.'

  

  Phillipa Soo
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Fun

• Being Italian, I have a very special relationship with the culinary arts. One my projects was to share Italian cultural food with my colleagues.

  

  Luca Parmitano
  • Food
  • Relationship
  • Italian

• As actors, we have a philosophy, which is this: great fun. That has transmitted itself into the dwarf philosophy of life. We're up for a brawl, we're up for a bloody good feed, and if you've got food, well, we share what we've got, and so should you.

  

  John Callen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• It was my pork chop. But that's ok. I ate his dog food.

  

  Bam Bam Bigelow
  • Food
  • Dog
  • Wrestling

• Life does not mean mere karma or mere bhakti or mere jnana.

  

  Vinoba Bhave
  • Mean
  • Doe
  • Karma

• In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a rather startling thing to say, but it is our conclusion.

  

  J. C. R. Licklider
  • Men

• To give up is easy. But to hold it together when everyone else thinks you'd fall apart is true strength.

  

  Erin Andrews
  • Thinking
  • Together
  • Giving

• 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
  • Vary