Quotes About Grits

#1. I stacked my plate with two blueberry muffins, three scoops of scrambled eggs, a half a pound of bacon, grits, sausage gravy, two waffles with a pint of syrup - and a side dish of fruit, because I like to eat healthy.

Marshall Thornton

#2. I'm always sketchy of people who don't like grits.

Jaycee Ford

#3. Deb shoots Deano a hard look and grits her teeth so hard she snaps the end of her cigar which flies out the window.
Mac orders, "Deb, stop!"
Deb says, "It's just a scratch. I'll worry about it later.

David McKoy

#4. When I eat biscuits, I also eat grits.

Taylor Hicks

#5. Much of traditional Southern cooking parallels Italian peasant cuisine. Consider cooked radicchio with polenta. It is not dissimilar to our grits and greens.

Steven Satterfield

#6. The perfect breakfast is fish with grits and scrambled eggs with onions. I'm getting hungry thinking about that.

Daymond John

#7. I grew up in Doraville, Georgia and I ate barbecued ribs and chicken fried steak, and all kinds of cheesy grits, you know, and I never even thought twice about it.

Kathy Freston

#8. Feasting is also closely related to memory. We eat certain things in a particular way in order to remember who we are. Why else would you eat grits in Madison, New Jersey?

Jeff Smith

#9. To one who has led a virtuous life, to sin is the easiest thing in the world. No experience of unpleasant consequences grits that smooth sliding fall, no recollection of disillusionment blurs that pure desire.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#10. I don't think people should be fed mesclun salad and chicken breast. My grandmother would serve grits and oxtail stew at a formal dinner, and if you didn't like it, well then you ate more beans or you went home and ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

Marjorie Gubelmann

#11. I love your sense of humor and the fact you never ate grits before. There's so much I love about you that I know I'm in love with you. So, honey, you can have all my shirts you want.

J. Lynn

#12. Don't ever take a dramatic lesson. They will try to put your voice in a dinner jacket, and people like their hominy and grits in everyday clothes.

Dale Robertson

#13. Of the two 'True Grits,' the John Wayne version one is better.

Caroline Lawrence

#14. With the possible exception of grits, there's no food more Southern than greens, whose bitter smell while cooking down in salty fatback amid the jittery hiss of a pressure cooker is a Proustian madeleine for generations of black and white Southerners alike. The

Sela Ward

#15. Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It's a grain. It's like, like, grits, but with high self-esteem.

James Patterson

#16. She blow em clean over. She suck the grits off the candle and start eating. After while, she smile up at me, say, "How old are you?"
"Aibileen's fifty-three."
Her eyes get real wide. I might as well be a thousand.

Kathryn Stockett

#17. Stone-ground grits are wonderful, but because they take so long to cook, I usually go with quick cooking grits - which I also love. But I never make the instant kind - some things a Southerner just won't do!

Paula Deen

#18. I'll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.

Dolly Parton

#19. Success comes to the man who grits his teeth, squares his jaw and says, "There is a way for me and, by jingo, I'll find it".

Cliff Sloan

#20. Let's see, for breakfast Rickey will have bacon and eggs, and grits if I can get 'em.

Rickey Henderson

#21. Sweetened ice tea is one of the things I love about the South, right up there with homemade biscuits and cheese grits.

Emily Giffin

#22. Obviously as I'm getting older, I'm seeing changes in my body that I may not like ... but I do love food, and I'm from the South. I'm not gonna lie, I eat fried chicken, I love macaroni and cheese, and I love grits.

Erin Andrews

#23. Our traditions have been waking up on Christmas morning and feasting on a southern breakfast. I'm from the South. We eat grits and biscuits and gravy and eggs with Ritz crackers and country ham, bacon, you name it.

Leigh-Allyn Baker

#24. The idiot who invented instant grits also thought of frozen fried chicken, and they ought to lock him up before he tries to freeze-dry collards.

Lewis Grizzard

#25. First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb ... we're so impatient to get at the presents we can't eat a mouthful.

Truman Capote

#26. Grits are hot; they are abundant, and they will by-gosh stick to your ribs. Give your farmhands (that is, your children) cold cereal for breakfast and see how many rows they hoe. Make them a pot of grits and butter, and they'll hoe till dinner and be glad to do it.

Janis Owens

#27. If you got the grits, serve 'em!

Stanley Crouch

#28. Well, you get out of bed, you eat your grits, say hey to your neighbor, you give extra love to her children, and you live your life. The sun is a pretty stubborn guy, and he'll rise each day just to spite you. But life does go on.

Karen White

#29. For breakfast I have grits, because I'm a Southern girl!

Shanola Hampton

#30. We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.

John Shelton Reed

#31. I like to think I am well-mannered. If I have the option at a breakfast place, I'll go with the grits. That's how Southern I am.

Michael C. Hall

#32. If relationships were hard, mariage was even harder ... it seemed like most couples struggled. It went with the territory. What did Nana always say? Stick two different people with two different sets of expectations under one roof and it ain't always going to be shrimp and grits on Easter.

Nicholas Sparks

#33. I was weaned on chicken-fried steak and hominy grits with goopy gravy all over. I loved meat and wore fur.

Kathy Freston

#34. Zik spits into the dirt in from of home plate, his own little ritual. He digs in and grits his teeth, snarling at the Heat. Psychology. Baseball's all about psychology.

Barry Lyga

#35. That woman grinds my grits, and that's a fact.

Nancy E. Turner

#36. The South, to me, is fried chicken and catfish caviar
that's grits
and good-looking women.

Erk Russell

#37. I thought you'd be interested in these things as a government man. Ain't you mixed up in the prices of things we eat or something? Ain't that it? Making them more costly or something. Making the grits cost more and the grunts less?

Ernest Hemingway,

#38. If there was ever a time to boil up some grits it is now.

Tayari Jones

#39. If I don't love you, baby, grits ain't groceries.

Little Milton

#40. I'm learning to say 'y'all' and I like grits. Strange things are happening to me.

Mitt Romney

#41. That's all a grit is, a vehicle. For whatever it is you rather be eating.

Kathryn Stockett