Lewis Grizzard
Author, Humorist
"There is something wrong when you wait in line thirty minutes to get a hamburger that was cooked for ninety seconds an hour ago."
Hamburgers quotes
Hamburgers
73 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Steven Barnes
Author
"Saying spirituality cannot exist without religion is like saying hamburgers cannot exist without McDonald's."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Leader
"What good does it do to sit at the counter when you cannot afford a hamburger?"
Dave Thomas
Comedian, Actor
"Whether you sell hamburgers or computers, we’re all in the customer service business. Our goal must be to exceed our customers’ expectations every day."
Tom Robbins
Novelist, Essayist
"You are what you think you eat."
Explore further
Topics related to Hamburgers
Browse quotes that often appear alongside hamburgers — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Hamburgers quotes (page 1 of 4)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"But once in a while you might see me at In and Out Burger; they make the best fast food hamburgers around."
Read quote
10 likes
"The same rightists who decades ago were shouting, 'Better dead than red!' are now often heard mumbling, 'Better red than eating hamburgers."
Read quote
10 likes
"I can understand wanting to have a million dollars but once you get beyond that, I have to tell you, it's the same hamburger."
Read quote
9 likes
"I don't get the animosity when someone tells a joke that you don't like. Whereas if someone made a dish that you don't like if you went to a restaurant, you would either try another dish or you just don't go back to that restaurant. But you don't say like, "I did not like the hamburger here. This restaurant should be shut down. It should be banned from making hamburgers. No one else should have these hamburgers." And everyone else is like, "No, you wouldn't do that.""
Read quote
8 likes
"If you do not like Real Estate, all you have to do is make hamburgers, build a business around that hamburger, and franchise it."
Read quote
7 likes
"What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger?"
Read quote
6 likes
"I stole a shirt off Jacques (Kallis) and a pullover off Harry (Paul Harris) that still had his hamburger stain on the front left side of it."
Read quote
4 likes
"Learn how to cook! That's the way to save money. You don't save it buying hamburger helpers, and prepared foods; you save it by buying fresh foods in season or in large supply, when they are cheapest and usually best, and you prepare them from scratch at home. Why pay for someone else's work, when if you know how to do it, you can save all that money for yourself?"
Read quote
4 likes
"Mc Donalds he thought. There's no longer any such thing as a Mc Donalds hamburger. He passed out. When he came around seconds later he found he was sobbing for his mother."
Read quote
3 likes
"If you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things. You're not really honoring the life."
Read quote
3 likes
"You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear - things like hamburgers and hot dogs - were road food, but even before they were road food, they were peasant food."
Read quote
3 likes
"What?" I ask. "I'm developing a theory." "And it is?" She picks up her hamburger, grins, and says, "That you have a death wish."
Read quote
3 likes
"We've all had that moment where the agent thought he hit hold. You hear it's like Hamburger Hill in the background."
Read quote
3 likes
"You can get an Egg McMuffin all day; you just can't get the hamburger all day."
Read quote
3 likes