Barbara Tuchman Quotes

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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.
  • Food
  • Green
  • Grow

• In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Women
  • Food
  • Water

• My dad makes food with very few delicate flavours.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Food
  • Dad
  • Delicate

• I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Food
  • Amazing
  • Follow

• I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Up
  • Food
  • Respect

• The food being presented at the most expensive restaurants, by the most sophisticated chefs, was not always recognizable as food to the diner - it required a leap of faith, and I felt curious about that phenomenon.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Faith
  • Food
  • Curious

• I wanted to get away from the Mexican vernacular and do more 'nuevo Latino.' Americans are starting to understand regionality in Mexican food. It is very regional in terms of ingredients.

  

  Aaron Sanchez
  • Food
  • Understand
  • Mexican

• Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Joy

• Sometimes there's cities where it's just hard to find healthy food. You just have to be prepared.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Food
  • Sometimes
  • Healthy

• It's outrageous that many enlisted people qualify for food stamps because military salaries are so low.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • People
  • Food
  • Military

• In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon 5' universe, they're in the bottom third.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Science
  • Food
  • Universe

• You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Food
  • Better
  • Pizza

• That point of life when I learned I could cook, that always made me understand what cooks felt like feeding other people. It's okay to receive, but it's really cool to give, so food is to me sexy because it's the fact that someone is giving it to someone else.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • People
  • Life
  • Giving

• For the Nugent family, fast food is a running herbivore.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Family
  • Food
  • Running

• Le Cirque at first was one of those general French restaurants in town, which were cooking more or less the same food. At Le Cirque, I wanted to do something different while respecting the foundation of the restaurant. I did that through the menu.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Different
  • Food
  • Cooking

• Fear of carbs, of gluten, of everything - we've distanced ourselves from the beauty of food, the art of it. It makes me sad when people say, 'Oh, I don't eat gluten. I don't eat cheese. I don't eat this. So I eat cardboard.'

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Art
  • Fear

• The food in the House of Commons is fairly good. The cafe in Portcullis House is really very high quality, and you also have a choice of eating in the more traditional restaurants, the Churchill Room or the Members' Dining Room. I don't often eat in them, though, as I'm usually on the run.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Good
  • High
  • House

• People complain that cities don't have fresh, sustainable food, but it's just not true.

  

  Dan Barber
  • People
  • True
  • Food

• When I was born, my family was so poor that there was no money to buy food. So the church bought groceries for us - there wasn't any kind of privilege.

  

  Jeremy Scott
  • Family
  • Money
  • Food

• I would require every producer of food to follow and have enforced a standard safety plan. We know how to produce safe food. It has a horrible name; it's called HACCP - Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point - and this was a food safety system that was developed for NASA so that astronauts wouldn't get sick in outer space. If you just think about what it might be like to have food poison under conditions of zero gravity, you don't even want to think about it.

  

  Marion Nestle
  • Food
  • Control
  • Space

• I'm anxious about work, the future, friendships, past relationships... I'm just one of those people that, whatever I'm doing, it's a big worry.

  

  Conor McPherson
  • People
  • Work
  • Future

• I don't mind that I am not necessarily a household name, because I think my characters have outshined me. That was by design. And I'm not wanting for appreciation.

  

  Jeffrey Wright
  • Mind
  • Design
  • Appreciation

• It's just a whole different thing, and it's just that my life has been a blessing, and I thank god every day for the gifts that he has given me and for my daughter and to be able to watch her grow and be a part of her joys and her excitement and what she wants to do in life.

  

  M.C. Brockert
  • Different
  • Mother
  • Daughter

• To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Food
  • Muse
  • Shelter