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“And then I saw the menu, stained with tea and beautifully written by a foreign hand, and on top it said..."Chips with everything". Chips with every damn thing. You breed babies and you eat chips with everything.”

Said Hands Saws Written Food Baby Tea Damn Chips Menus Damn Things Fish And Chips

Author:Arnold Wesker

“the test of a cook is how she boils an egg. My boiled eggs are fantastic, fabulous. Sometimes as hard as a 100 carat diamond, or again soft as a feather bed, or running like a cooling stream, they can also burst like fireworks from their shells and take on the look and rubbery texture of a baby octopus. Never a dull egg, with me.”

Looks Sometimes Hard Running Food Baby Bed Tests Cooking Fantastic Cooks Streams Dull Eggs Diamond Shells Fabulous Feathers Texture Fireworks Cooling Octopus Boiled Eggs

Author:Nancy Mitford

“[On peanut M&Ms:] It is the eggness of them. A shell, chocolate placenta, proteiny peanut baby. Life shape, birth shape, cell shape, protoplasmic-ooze shape. A shape that calls straight through civilization to our reptilian brains.”

Brain Food Baby Birth Civilization Shapes Cells Chocolate Shells Peanuts Placenta

Author:Cynthia Heimel

“Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.”

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.”

“[Clover] secretly hitched a ride with a nice German couple and their new baby...Clover appeared to the baby, so as to be a delightful, soothing surprise. Well, the child did like Clover. In fact, she held him and cooed. When the parents turned around to look at her and saw their child holding a furry, living creature, they needlessly panicked.”

Wells Looks Children Facts Parent Saws Nice Food Baby Couple Creatures Surprise Hungry Delightful Soothing Living Creatures New Baby Furry Clovers

Author:Obert Skye

“My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.”

Force Food Health Baby Drink Doctors Cooking Illness Dues Culinary Milk Helpless Fluid Insistence Drink Milk

Author:W. C. Fields

“Stored away in some brain cell is the image of a long-departed aunt you haven't thought of in 30 years. Stored away in another cell is the image of a pink pony stitched on your first set of baby pajamas. All it takes to get that aunt mounted on the back of that pony is to eat a hunk of meatloaf immediately before going to bed.”

Years Firsts Long Brain Havens Food Baby Bed Cells Aunt Departed Pajamas Ponies Brain Cells Hunk Meatloaf

Author:Robert Breault

“I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food.”

Boys Food Baby Mom Cooking Culinary Infant Thumbs

Author:Robert Orben

“The age of your children is a key factor in how quickly you are served in a restaurant. We once had a waiter in Canada who said, "Could I get you your check?" and we answered, "How about the menu first?"”

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Author:Erma Bombeck

“A newborn baby has only three demands. They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the knowledge of her presence. Breastfeeding satisfies all three.”

Mother Three Born Security Food Baby Arms Birth Demand Satisfied Secure Breasts Warmth Satisfying Feeding Mothers Day Newborn Breastfeeding Mother Child Newborn Baby Obstetricians

Book:Childbirth Without Fear

Source: Childbirth Without Fear