"Over the years since I left home, I have kept thinking about the people I grew up with and about our way of life. I realize how much the bond that held us had to do with food."

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Source : Edna Lewis (2012). “The Taste of Country Cooking: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.18, Knopf

Edna Lewis

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“Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word.”

Source : John of Salisbury (2009). “The Metalogicon: A Twelfth-century Defense of the Verbal and Logical Arts of the Trivium”, p.81, Paul Dry Books
“I had this thing about hanging out in dark theaters. My family thought I grew out of a rock.”
“I think actions speak louder than words. You can do all the hyping you want. It doesn't mean anything.”

Source : "IBM's Ginni Rometty on leadership". Interview with John Huey, fortune.com. October 2, 2012.
“There’s no romance in the details [of touring] anymore for me. But as soon as we’re walking onstage and until we walk off after the encore, I feel totally alive and completely satisfied with my work.”
“To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.”

Source : William Godwin (1798). “Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness: By William Godwin”, p.373
“As a scar commemorates what happened, so is memory but itself a scar.”
“We've been doing this for 10 years and it's been a hobby for a lot longer than it's been a job.”
“Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.”

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