Al Roker Quotes

I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.

Al Roker

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• Since I was a child, I have had this feeling that the most important work I'd do would be with my family.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Work
  • Important
  • Family

• It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Family
  • Today

• Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Life
  • Creative

• One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Family
  • Style
  • Things

• I was taught as a young child by my parents and family to love myself.

  

  Zendaya
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Young

• My family is a kaleidoscope... My family is like that. We're all different colors, like a prism. When we have light shine and stuff, we're beautiful. When it's dark, nothing shines, and it's a rock.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Different
  • Family
  • Beautiful

• I did accents and funny voices for the family when I was growing up.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Up
  • Family
  • Growing

• I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Family
  • Name
  • Outside

• Unlike the stereotypical author, I've never had a job as a short-order cook, but I love cooking hot breakfasts for lots of people, juggling the eggs and the bacon and the tomatoes and the fried potatoes and so on.

  

  Garth Nix
  • People
  • Love
  • Job

• My dad was in the Army, so what was happening internationally and nationally was always important to my family.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Important
  • Family
  • Dad

• As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Long
  • Family
  • Single

• I come from a very hospitable, close, Catholic, matriarchal family.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Family
  • Catholic
  • Very

• I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Family
  • Money
  • Kids

• I'm always the cousin that can't make it to the family functions because I'm busy.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Family
  • Because
  • Busy

• All the women in my family were superb cooks.

  

  Randy Wayne White
  • Women
  • Family
  • Were

• Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Family
  • Home
  • Peace

• Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back thousands of years.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Up
  • Family
  • Business

• If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Country
  • Family
  • Mother

• If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Poetry
  • Poverty

• Stand-up and sketch and improv - that's the most direct contact you can have with somebody, making them laugh. I like that. I like the intimacy.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Up
  • Laugh
  • Intimacy

• When we used to go to the car-wash where people would wipe the windows, my dad would go out and help them and then tip them as well, so I learned my empathy from my dad, and my mum is very empathetic too, but in a very stern way; she will always check my ego.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • People
  • She
  • Help

• Political change and academic change and intellectual change are obviously crucial, but they don't necessarily change society. They can change a particular class and give everybody in that class great arguments, but that doesn't necessarily translate into the body of the culture.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Society
  • Political
  • Culture

• Well you know, I've been into music my whole life, so to be able to put an album together with some of that music was awesome.

  

  Lee Brice
  • Life
  • Music
  • Together

• I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.

  

  Al Roker
  • Family
  • Cooking