Quotes About Clam Chowder

#1. You can't escape the taste of the food you had as a child. In times of stress, what do you dream about? Your mother's clam chowder. It's security, comfort. It brings you home.

Jacques Pepin

#2. I find it best to worry about the little things. Things that can be helped by being worried about. Such as the making of clam chowder, (..)coffee. The bigger stuff, well, you have to handle that as it faces you.

Terry Pratchett

#3. It is not enough to read Hesse
and drink clam chowder,
we must have the answers.

Anne Sexton

#4. I'm from Manchester, Mass., so it was lobster, lobster and more lobster! Also, lots of fish that we caught in the summers, clam chowder and roast beef sandwiches. But my mom was pretty healthy; we had a lot of chicken and broccoli and rice as well.

Sprague Grayden

#5. Clam chowder is one of those subjects, like politics or religion, that can never be discussed lightly. Bring it up even incidentally, and all the innumerable factions of the clam bake regions raise their heads and begin to yammer.

Louis Pullig De Gouy

#6. New England clam chowder, made as it should be, is a dish to preach about, to chant praises and sing hymns and burn incense before. [ ... ] It is as American as the Stars and Stripes, as patriotic as the national Anthem. It is Yankee Doodle in a kettle.

Joseph C. Lincoln

#7. Today we take New England clam chowder as something traditional that makes our roots as American cooking very solid, with a lot of foundation. But the first person who decided to mix potatoes and clams and bacon and cream, in his own way 100 to 200 years ago, was a modernist.

Jose Andres

#8. It's like The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat, about the discovery of penicillin. Out of these strange accidents come huge discoveries. A certain purple bleeds into red and all of a sudden you have something unexpected.

Carly Simon

#9. My favorite way to cook a clam is in chowder. I was a New Yorker for 20 years, and I always loved tomato-based, celery-heavy Manhattan chowders.

Kate Christensen

#10. A growing nation is the greatest ponzi game ever contrived.

Paul Samuelson

#11. Being an artist and having to be responsible for the art that you make is really quite challenging, and as you get older it becomes more and more difficult.

Tracey Emin

#12. I was a conservative kid, but I had fun. I was in a fraternity and stuff. I wasn't a player - that's for sure.

Matt Long

#13. Tell Dr. Jonas next time I'll do that thing he likes with the peanut butter and the cock ring."
"It is without a doubt the sole reason he went to medical school.

Tiffany Reisz

#14. Hope transforms pessimism into optimism. Hope is invincible.

Daisaku Ikeda

#15. Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies and contradictions called the Holy Bible! This is the rubbish called Revealed Religion!

Thomas Paine

#16. Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.

Beatrix Potter

#17. I really love houses.

Courteney Cox

#18. I love every kind of music.

Kimberly Caldwell