Jane Grigson Quotes

#1. Shape is a good part of the fig's delight.

Jane Grigson

#2. Twin, sagging is seriously lame. It's so cliched gang-wannabe circa 1990s. Hotties should just say no to it.

P.C. Cast

#3. But how long must she sing in the darkness until she is at last allowed out into the light of day?

Unica Zurn

#4. I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#5. This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal ... We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards with a delight that a cabbage patch or even an elegant vegetable garden cannot provoke.

Jane Grigson

#6. The apple was the first fruit of the world according to Genesis, but it was no Cox's Orange Pippin. God gave the crab apple and left the rest to man.

Jane Grigson

#7. You take a vacation to a place like Thailand and you're ready for the excitement of something new and foreign. But when you're working 14-hour days, all you want is something familiar to ground you. And there's just nothing there.

Ed Helms

#8. The more successful you are, the more mistakes you will make. People who don't do anything, don't make mistakes.

Robert Anthony

#9. Remove the centrality-of-Jesus-Christ message from ministry and meetings, and you can forget church life or organic meetings. He must be the center of everything ... not in lip service, but in the dynamic experiential whole.

Gene Edwards

#10. It ain't ever what you get for puttin' in all the hard work, it's what all the hard work gonna make you become.

Sean Patrick Flanery

#11. Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

#12. Happiness and satisfaction always imply some desire fulfilled, some state of pain brought to an end.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#13. In my experience, clever food is not appreciated at Christmas. It makes the little ones cry and the old ones nervous.

Jane Grigson

#14. I got sick of turning on the TV and seeing my face.

Michael J. Fox

#15. This is perhaps what has made some suspect that the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was really a banana.

Jane Grigson

#16. Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.

Charles De Lint

#17. A number of rare or newly experienced foods have been claimed to be aphrodisiacs. At one time this quality was even ascribed to the tomato. Reflect on that when you are next preparing the family salad.

Jane Grigson

#18. If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.

Henry James

#19. On a shrunken planet where nearly every mountain bears bootprints and every mile of river has been run, being 'first' tends to require creative task definition" (111).

Jo Deurbrouck