Top 42 On The Back Burner Quotes
#1. I got married very young and put my career on the back burner for the most part because that's what you did in those days. I've never been a pushy, ambitious type of person anyway.
Michael Learned
#2. Religion has for too long been placed on the back burner of history, when it may be one of the driving forces in history.
Dave Brat
#3. I feel like, big city or small town, you can relate to following your parents' footsteps or putting your own dreams on the back burner or vices that we get caught up in - that whole cycle. That's not just a small-town thing. That's a life thing.
Kacey Musgraves
#4. When you have kids, there's a tendency to put the marriage stew on the back burner and give it a quick stir now and then. But it's important to remember why you had children with this person.
Allison Pearson
#5. When you lose people that are close to you it brings everything into focus, and the rest kind of gets put on the back burner.
Vince Gill
#6. Florence Dodson was murdered the same night that Claire Guthrie shot her husband. For me, the story began with Claire, and I put Mrs. Dodson on the back burner in my mind. That turned out to be a mistake.
Judy Alter
#7. All small towns, scandal is always simmering on the back burner, like your Aunt Cindy's baked beans.
Stephen King
#8. The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.
Martha Reeves
#9. Making a movie takes a toll on your life because it's a commitment, so you put a lot on the back burner.
Michael Eklund
#10. It's gonna be the scene of a homicide if you don't put bitchy on the back burner
Rachel Vincent
#11. Empire Square production finishes in about a month's time, so at the moment, right now, I'm just completely full on Empire Square. There's no time to do anything else. But there's a few things on the back burner, including another Blur album before too long.
Dave Rowntree
#12. With 'Suite Life,' I had three years to sit a little bit on the back burner and learn with less pressure.
Debby Ryan
#13. I prefer to just jump into something instead of put it on the back burner, and I suppose that's how I deal with most challenging things. I'd rather just attack it head-on.
Kate Bosworth
#14. I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
Michael Caine
#15. Allowing anger to seethe on the back burner will lead to a very large lid blowing off a very hot pot.
Charles R. Swindoll
#16. Most cooks would not, for example, prepare an important, elaborate, and difficult dish on the back-burner. Neither should we relegate the cultivation and preparation of happiness for a position where it is both hard to reach and difficult to infuse with new ingredients.
Gina Barreca
#17. My stand-up has a lot of performance in it, and I loved doing it so much that, after years, I put the idea of having a show on the back burner.
Cristela Alonzo
#18. I can talk to my dad like he's my manager, and put 'Dad' on the back burner. We've been doing it since I was 13.
Jessica Simpson
#19. The people who live in any generation do much, he realized, either to create or to solve the problems for the people who come in the generations later.
George R. Stewart
#20. Not one man in five cycles, who is wise, will expect appreciative recognition from his fellows, or any one of them.
Herman Melville
#21. There is never a time in a company's history when cost control can be relegated to the back burner, but for a startup company, keeping costs low is a vital necessity.
Felix Dennis
#22. Yeah, I like cars and basketball. But you know what I like more? Bananas.
Frankie Muniz
#24. Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner - the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It's like opening Pandora's box.
Jennifer Aniston
#25. It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure that the surrender terms were being complied with and that living conditions for the POWs were being immediately improved.
Wilfred Burchett
#26. Those 'back burner' thoughts, the ones the brain isn't quite sure about yet, may cook the slowest yet they often manage to be the tastiest when they come out.
Criss Jami
#27. I very much regret that our administration has pushed the whole issue of Kosovo to the back burner.
Eliot Engel
#28. Well, I would have struck him, but I would have had to get up. You have no notion how difficult it is to arrange skirts when sitting down; it took me five minutes together the first time.
Naomi Novik
#29. What I learned constructive about women is that no matter how old they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had.
Ernest Hemingway,
#30. I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a back burner, an old attempt at history may come out of the freezer.
Theodore White
#31. My initial thoughts of becoming a lawyer changed in high school as I became more attracted to math and science and began talking about being an engineer.
Oliver E. Williamson
#32. Anybody that I ever dealt with knows that I'm a very focused individual, and when it comes to my work and what I do, you might have to play the back burner to that.
Young Jeezy
#33. I was quite naughty at school. I was always in the back of the class messing about with the Bunsen burner rather than paying attention.
Jim Sturgess
#34. But a man's walking-around body can be a ghost a whole lot easier than his spirit can.
Sarah Porter
#36. I never really did that well in school because I was so absorbed with doing acting.
Ansel Elgort
#37. Anyone in pursuit of art is responding to a desire to make visible that which is not, to offer the unknown self to others.
Hettie Jones
#38. I love when a scene can almost be boring because it's so honest, you know.
Dito Montiel
#39. Japan will change. Let's create a country where innovation is constantly happening, giving birth to new industries to lead the world, when I visit Silicon Valley I want to think about how we can take Silicon Valley's ways and make them work in Japan.
Shinzo Abe
#40. As the church get older and older it becomes harder to keep evangelism on the front burner because of all the competing issues that keeps pushing it back.
Gary Rohrmayer
#41. I just want people to get off the back burner of their life and start to take better care of themselves and their children.
Richard Simmons
#42. And from my place, and from the time that I went through my divorce, I also had my father pass away in the middle of all that. And it kind of made everything else just kind of like the back burner, you know.
Vince Gill
