Mayer Hawthorne
Singer-songwriter, Producer
"Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and I definitely have a hearty breakfast before I do anything."
Meals quotes
Meals
446 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Brother Lawrence
Monk, Cook
"Lord of all pots and pans and things make me a saint by getting meals and washing up the plates!"
Karl Kraus
Playwright, Journalist
"Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse."
Fran Lebowitz
Author, Essayist
"A salad is not a meal, it is a style."
Andre Simon
Chef
"Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized."
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"The Bible is to your soul what bread is to your body. You need it daily. One good meal does not suffice for a lifetime."
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"The President eats dirt and excrement for his daily meals, likes it and tries to force it on The States."
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"Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal."
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"A person who has spoiled his stomach will criticize his meal saying that the food is bad; the same thing happens with people who are not satisfied with their lives"
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"The easiest beneficence is a smile. The simplest release is to have a vegetarian meal."
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"Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled over just because I was driving the wrong kind of car in the wrong kind of area at the wrong time of night."
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"Breakfast is a notoriously difficult meal to serve with a flourish."
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"Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning."
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"You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal."
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"I discovered a meal between breakfast and brunch."
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"Be kind to yourself this evening. Buy something for yourself. Treat yourself to a meal. Look in the mirror and give yourself a smile"
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"I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind."
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"It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it."
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"A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain."
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"I'm slamming n***as like Shaquille, s**t is real When it's time to eat a meal, I rob and steal"
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"I eat 230 grams of protein daily, 308 grams of carbohydrates, maybe 70 grams of fat. I can have one cheat meal a week but it can't be that I eat until I'm stuffed; I eat until I'm satisfied."
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"Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production."
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"Let the things that happen on the stage be just as complex and yet just as simple as they are in life. For instance, people are having a meal, just having a meal, but at the same time their happiness is being created, or their lives are being smashed up."
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"When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal."
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"One can say everything best over a meal."
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