Bob Ainsworth famous quotes

Growing up, I was always in the kitchen. Even in third grade, I made cooking videos called 'The Little Italian.' Very little production value, but it was good.
-- Bob Ainsworth

#Growing Up #Italian #Cooking

Failure in Afghanistan would have profound consequences for our national security. It would undermine the NATO alliance structure that has been the bedrock of Britain's defence for the last 60 years... I will not allow this to happen on my watch.
-- Bob Ainsworth

#Years #Profound #Watches

I got a tooth bust by somebody who decided they didn't like me and I thought the moustache hid a scar on my lip. It's true that people were told facial hair was not appreciated by the British public, but I just decided to keep the moustache.
-- Bob Ainsworth

#Hair #People #Teeth

My heroes are the non-commissioned officers. If I had another life thats what Id be - a regimental sergeant major or a similar rank. Thats where the spirit of the armed forces is.
-- Bob Ainsworth

#Hero #Spirit #Another Life

I never expected to be Defence Secretary. It's a great privilege.
-- Bob Ainsworth

#Privilege #Defence #Expected

We in the west walked away from Afghanistan at the end of the cold war and left it as a country devastated socially and armed to the teeth. If we do that again there will be consequences.
-- Bob Ainsworth

#Country #War #Teeth

I come from a pretty tough background and I learned a long time ago not to be bothered.
-- Bob Ainsworth

#Long #Tough #Backgrounds

Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.

Kids grow up awfully fast these days,"she said. "You should try to have a good relationship with your kids, no matter what they do.

I was a big fan of Kurt Russell growing up and I always wanted to be the modern day Kurt Russell.

I don't know who I touch and who I don't. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don't have any secrets. I don't know the reasons I've been so well received.

I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.

In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them.

Ladies like improv stilts, and I think men like improv giant cocks. But one of the great things about improv is that you get to play some roles you'd never get to play otherwise, you know, like the old Italian pizza-maker who's passing on the business down to his son. You get to play it all when you improvise.

I love your cooking, honey, but sometimes I need some real food.

It's about children cooking themselves, growing themselves. When kids grow it and cook it they eat it.

I became a cook so I could cook and tell stories in wacky ways.