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“One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.”

Children Humanity Asks Nature Animal Food Taste Summer Bird Cherries Strawberries Inner Child Children Playing Sea Birds

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I always ask at once, 'Do you drink?' and if she says 'No,' I bow politely and say I am sorry but I fear she will not suit. All good cooks drink.”

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Author:James Whistler

“Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.”

“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.”

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Author:Orson Welles

“But I, when I undress me Each night, upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me With apple-pie and cheese.”

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Author:Eugene Field

“That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.”

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Book:Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

Source: Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

“Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my scotch, I say, I'm thirsty, not dirty.”

“There is a communication of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is my answer when people ask me: Why do you write about hunger, and not wars or love.”

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Author:M. F. K. Fisher

“You ask me how, with so much study, I manage to retene my health. Morpheus is my last companion; without 8 or 9 hours of him yr correspondent is not worth one scavenger's peruke. My practices did at ye first hurt my stomach, but now I eat heartily enou' as y' will see when I come down beside you.”

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Author:Isaac Newton

“It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened library paste that passes for gravy.”

Ifs Wells May Done Asks Food Willing Cooking Library Settling Culinary Beef Well Done Gravy Roast Beef

Author:Marian Burros

“All I ask of food is that it doesn't harm me.”

Asks Food Cooking Harm Culinary

Author:Michael Palin

“This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.”

Men Enough Asks Food Dinner

Author:Samuel Johnson