"In Ethiopia, where I was born, all the cooks are women. When I grew up in Sweden, my mom and my grandmother did predominantly all the cooking. Then I changed to restaurant kitchens, where all of a sudden there were just more men than women, and I always thought that was weird."

-- Marcus Samuelsson

#Mom Quotes #Food Quotes #Grandmother Quotes

“I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more”
“When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans.”
“Love is amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.”

Source : Isaac Watts, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (1850). “Parish psalmody: A collection of psalms and hymns for public worship: containing Dr. Watts's versification of the psalms of David, entire, a large portion of Dr. Watts's hymns, and psalms and hymns by other authors, selected and original. To which are appended, the confession of faith and Shorter catechism of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.”, p.348
“I just had a baby. I'm not going to work unless it's something really special and meaningful, because I can't imagine missing all that time with my daughter.”
“I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.”
“This fear is what is the ruin of us all. And some dominate us; they take advantage of our fear and frighten us still more. Mark this: as long as people are afraid, they will rot like the birches in the marsh. We must grow bold; it is time!”

Source : Maxim Gorky (2015). “Mother”, p.20, Booklassic
“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.”
“Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.”

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