Anna Thomas famous quotes

We all eat & it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly.
-- Anna Thomas

#Food #Opportunity #Would Be

Good food is a celebration of life, and it seems absurd to me that in celebrating life we should take life. That is why I don't eat flesh. I see no need for killing.
-- Anna Thomas

#Food #Animal #Needs

When there is very little else left to believe in, one can still believe in an honest loaf of fragrant, home-baked bread.
-- Anna Thomas

#Believe #Food #Home

if there ever was a time for sentimentality and traditional merrymaking, one that has transcended religious orientation, Christmas must be that time. The effect seems salutary: even people who ordinarily are as colorful and gay as groundworms, who would dare not consider a flamboyant gesture, hang long strings of brightly colored lights around their houses, trim Christmas trees, and talk to strangers.
-- Anna Thomas

#Christmas #Religious #Gay

Cooking is mythology - a story told over and over, passed on again and again, always with the same meaning but expressed in endlessly different ways.
-- Anna Thomas

#Cooking #Different #Stories

Food binds us to our roots as strongly as any song or poem. Many of us have learned more about our ancestors in the kitchen than we ever will from a book.
-- Anna Thomas

#Song #Food #Book

In that intensely busy time of children and work, soup became my stalwart friend and I learned its true value. Anyone who's been there knows. You're busy, too much to do, time vanishes, the kids are relentless, and everyone is hungry all the time. Something as comforting, delicious, and practical as soup is like gold.
-- Anna Thomas

#Children #Food #Kids

We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.

Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.

It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and so celebrate the gifts of the world.

An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data, we have an opportunity, and maybe even an obligation, to maintain [our] humanity and tell some amazing stories.

Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.

There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken or written of, though it would be very wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.

I would be lying if I didn't admit there might be a scene in the movie where there might be alcohol in my system.

Loosing you would be the only thing that could destroy me

I knew that even if I was able to call for help, I was in a place so remote that it wasn't likely there would be anyone who could help me. And even if there were, it could take weeks.

Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.