Micasa Quotes & Sayings

Secretly in my heart, I believe food is a doorway to almost every dimension of our existence ... Food never was just food. From the time a cave person first came out from under a rock, food has been a little bit of everything: who we are spiritually as well as what keeps us alive. It's a gathering place, and in the best of all worlds it's possible that when people of one country sit down to eat another culture's food it will open their minds to the culture itself. Food is a doorway to understanding, and it can be as profound or as facile as you would like it to be. — Lynne Rossetto Kasper

The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Have a deputy and develop a successor. Don't be consumed by the job or you'll risk losing your balance. Keep your mooring lines to the outside world - family, friends, neighbors, people out of government, and people who may not agree with you. — Donald Rumsfeld

God ... my self in the Bronx always says that God has a funny sense of humor..He has a way of treating things, he deals with each individual soul delicately, tenderly, compassionately but he deals with groups of people [country] according to certain laws and he always observes those laws and that means the innocent are punished with the evil. — Malachi Martin

We have regressed to the times of the wars of religion; divided, betrayed, threatened if we do not think as the others think or if we refuse to use the same formulas and cry the same watchwords. And tomorrow, ready to kill each other in the name of free will. Refusing to consider the realities he finds disagreeable, each adversary blinds himself with his own convictions and no longer considers those that might help him to comprehend the problem. — Jules Roy

The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival. — Imelda Marcos

Rose: "Wow. You beat up your dad. I mean, that's really horrible ... what happened. But, wow. You really are a god." ...
Dimitri: "What?"
Rose: "Uh, nothing. — Richelle Mead

Why do you cry?"
"I almost lost you ... "
"You cannot lose me, not when you are part of me ...
You cannot lose has become part of you. — Christine Warren

I don't know how well this would get on, but I'd probably live in Africa ... as a job, it would probably be a safari guide. — Prince Harry

I'd rather go on hearing your lies, than to go on living without you. — Elvis Presley

That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. — Walt Disney Company

Those who row the boat don't have time to rock it while those who rock it don't have time to row it. — Orrin Woodward