Edna Lewis Quotes

#1. and a hundred savage painted Indians ran howling down upon the inn yard.

Edward Eager

#2. I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

Amy Winehouse

#3. One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food

Edna Lewis

#4. All of yesterday's ballers are today's road sweepers.

Habeeb Akande

#5. The smell of coffee cooking was a reason for growing up, because children were never allowed to have it and nothing haunted the nostrils all the way out to the barn as did the aroma of boiling coffee.

Edna Lewis

#6. 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.

Edna Lewis

#7. Greens are a dish that most Southerners would walk a mile for.

Edna Lewis

#8. As far as my creative urge is concerned, I do sit down and write my own music ... I'll tell you a writer who I think is a genius: Ray Stevens. He comes up with some of the most fantastic novelty ideas. Dolly Parton also writes well. I like a lot of songs, a lot of writers.

Boudleaux Bryant

#9. In the end there's never a sanctuary. You run until there's nowhere left to run to, and then you fight, and then you die, and then it's over. That's how the world works, and if there's any way to change that, I hope someone's eventually planning to let me know.

Seanan McGuire

#10. In dance the hand hath liberty to touch, the eye to gaze, the arm for to embrace.

George Gascoigne

#11. What fortitude the Soul contains, That it can so endure The accent of a coming Foot- The opening of a Door.

Emily Dickinson