Diana Kennedy famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Vegetables are organized bodies that grow on the dry areas of the globe and within its waters. Their function is to combine immediately the four elements and to serve as food for animals.

  • A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.

  • I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences.

  • Ecology more important than saving animals from slavery??? Humans suffer the raping of the earth but animals suffer DOUBLY: the raping of the earth PLUS their own raping by humans. They are innocent/they are not the ones who raped the earth/they enrich it for us all from the tiniest microscopic beings to the largest ones.

  • If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated suffering.

  • The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering.

  • When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating from the truth. It's a beautiful pointer. It never fails.

  • The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.

  • Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.

  • A tiny remnant of a big thing is better than a whole little thing.