Quotes for All
My mother, for example, told the German officer not to kill her. She’d make it worth his while. And then, when they were doing it, she pulled a knife out of her belt and sliced open his chest, just like she used to open chicken breasts to stuff with rice for the Sabbath meal. Etgar … Read more
Next to hot chicken soup, a tattoo of an anchor on your chest, and penicillin, I consider a honeymoon one of the most overrated events in the world. Erma Bombeck
Throughout the years I have set up my own rules about eating food: Never eat anything you can’t pronounce. Beware of food that is described as, Some Americans say it tastes like chicken. Erma Bombeck
We even switched to a newly-formed church across the town that gave one hundred and twenty trading stamps each time we attended. (We now worship a brown and white chicken with a sunburst on its chest.) Erma Bombeck
Making coffee has become the great compromise of the decade. It’s the only thing real men do that doesn’t seem to threaten their masculinity. To women, it’s on the same domestic entry level as putting the spring back into the toilet-tissue holder or taking a chicken out of the freezer to thaw. Erma Bombeck
I am always behind the shopper at the grocery store who has stitched her coupons in the lining of her coat and wants to talk about a ‘strong’ chicken she bought two weeks ago. The register tape also runs out just before her sub-total. In the public restroom, I always stand behind the teen-ager who … Read more
The South, to me, is fried chicken and catfish caviar — that’s grits — and good-looking women. Erk Russell
Obviously as I’m getting older, I’m seeing changes in my body that I may not like… but I do love food, and I’m from the South. I’m not gonna lie, I eat fried chicken, I love macaroni and cheese, and I love grits. Erin Andrews
I eat only white foods: eggs, sugar, grated bones, the fat of dead animals; veal, salt, coconut, chicken cooked in white water; fruit mold, rice, turnips; camphorated sausage, dough, cheese (white), cotton salad, and certain fish (skinless). Erik Satie
I have several dogs and several cats who aren’t really mine. In fact, they think that I am theirs. I’d like to have some goats and chickens, but I travel around too much. Eric Stoltz