Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes

I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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• My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Me
  • Speak
  • Grandmother

• The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Father
  • Man
  • Wife

• There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.

  

  Ian Botham
  • World
  • Nothing
  • Two

• The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Winning
  • Beauty
  • Greatest

• Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • God
  • Money
  • Like

• I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.

  

  Rabindranath Maharaj
  • Home
  • City
  • Internet

• Botox, trust me I've been tempted - but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles - and your skin - if you're sick and don't move for a few days. It all atrophies! Plus, if you freeze a muscle in your face, other muscles have to compensate! And once you stop, what does that look like?

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Me
  • Stop
  • Trust

• Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Legislature

• I'm not the girl next door.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Girl
  • Door
  • Girl Next Door

• The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Important
  • Problem
  • Numbers

• A lie to me is a dream that might come true.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • True
  • Dream
  • Me

• A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!

  

  Karl Kraus
  • World
  • Heart
  • Man

• When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of spring.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • World
  • Nature
  • Feeling

• I have to say I am a 'Strictly' fan, which is why I am in it. I've always watched it for years. I am not an 'X Factor' fan, and I just think it is a different show. One is about learning something new and having a great time, and the other is rather desperate.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Time
  • Great
  • Different

• I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Play
  • Learning
  • Songs

• Belief is thought at rest.

  

  Larry Harvey
  • Rest
  • Thought
  • Belief

• A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • She
  • Woman
  • Care

• For myself, I think that those who cultivate wisdom and believe themselves able to instruct their fellow-citizens as to their interests are least likely to become partisans of violence. They are too well aware that to violence attach enmities and dangers, whereas results as good may be obtained by persuasion safely and amicably.

  

  Xenophon
  • Good
  • Believe
  • May

• To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

  

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine
  • Believe

• Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Real
  • Lies
  • Facts

• My platitudes don't hold their interest and I can hardly blame them for that. My real stories are all out of date. So what if I can speak firsthand about the Spanish flu, the advent of the automobile, world wars, cold wars, guerrilla wars, and Sputnik — that's all ancient history now. But what else do I have to offer? Nothing happens to me anymore. That's the reality of getting old, and I guess that's really the crux of the matter. I'm not ready to be old yet.

  

  Sara Gruen
  • World
  • Real
  • War

• I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Silly