Carminda Arevalo Quotes & Sayings

There was no Internet, not even many cookbooks except the old reference books. So we would sit down at night, a group of six chefs, and we'd exchange recipes and each talk about how we were doing things. It was the only way to learn new ideas. — Daniel Boulud

While the Bible has nothing to say about how ethnic distinctions came to be, it does have definitive statements about how we are to regard them: "There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus" (Gal. 3:28). — John H. Walton

Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack for being wrong, we could never get anything useful done. We think our way along by choosing between right and wrong alternatives, and the wrong choices have to be made as often as the right ones. We get along in life this way. — Lewis Thomas

And now I knew myself to be generous with encouragement only when I either did not want the thing the other person sought of did not believe the person would really get it. — Curtis Sittenfeld

cozy+smell of pancakes-alarm clock=weekend — Amy Krouse Rosenthal

No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime. — Mason Cooley

Beautiful is he who recognizes what is truly beautiful even if the surface is ugly. Truthful is he who says what is true even if the truth is ugly. Ugly is he who measures beauty by its exterior without first weighing the interior. And ugly is the man who judges harshly what he sees looking out without first judging what he sees in the mirror. — Suzy Kassem

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. — Victor Hugo

A dwarf will fight for honor, but a man will kill for pride."
Auron thought for a moment. "What's the difference?"
"Honor is how others see you. Pride is how you see yourself. — E.E. Knight

Asked the boy to "consider himself at all times as one of his family." Washington was referring to his military family or aides-de-camp, the same way John Adams described the aide Alexander Hamilton as "one of General Washington's Family." So when Washington said "family," he meant "chummy minion." The orphaned Lafayette heard "son. — Sarah Vowell

Vagina man,' said Bunny, and his two colleagues went quiet and nodded in silent agreement. — Nick Cave

It takes a strong person to stand up to his or her fate and overcome the obstacles that stand in the way of freedom and success, but I believe in you. — Pax Prentiss

Christianity has become so respectable and so conventional that it is now insipid. The salt has lost its flavor. — Billy Graham

I'm happy if I can help anybody. I'm more than happy to, but you have to find your own path. — Iris Apfel