Sequeira Sequeira Quotes

#1. We need to ask ourselves if we are passive spectators in life as we watch it simply go by or are we ready to grab the bull by its horns and join in the action.

Tina Sequeira

#2. So many of the recipes that I come up with have a story. I'm a blogger. It flowed very naturally out of me, but I also knew this was a way to set my recipes apart. A, they are always using interesting ingredients but B, there is always a story behind it.

Aarti Sequeira

#3. Like the tiny droplets of water make the huge ocean!, similarly little daily doses of practice will take you to greater glories.

Tina Sequeira

#4. I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.

Aarti Sequeira

#5. Quinoa is great for lazy day cooking because it's packed with complete proteins, but it cooks in only 20 minutes. And, you can flavor it any way you wish! I make mine with onions, lots of ground ginger, turmeric and coriander, and then whatever dried fruit and nuts I have around.

Aarti Sequeira

#6. Imagine a world where everyone looked the same, spoke the same, ate the same and had one single belief system. Boring right? What makes this world colorful, interesting and fun is the diversity!

Tina Sequeira

#7. Just lay down on the beach, with nothing intellectual or constructive to do , other than soaking in the sun, and listening to the refreshing sounds of the water waves and admiring the smiles of the near and dear ones that we love.

Tina Sequeira

#8. We are more than role models for our students; we are leaders and teachers of both an academic curriculum and a social curriculum.

Patricia Sequeira Belvel

#9. I don't cook fancy every day. I don't think anybody can, nor would it be very good for you.

Aarti Sequeira

#10. I'm more comfortable weaving Indian flavors into American classics.

Aarti Sequeira

#11. Love is a choice and not just a fleeing feeling.

Tina Sequeira

#12. I'm going to scream this from the mountain top, there's no such thing as 'a curry.' There's six kazillion different kinds of curry. When someone asks how to make chicken curry, I have to ask 'Which one?'

Aarti Sequeira

#13. Someone foreign is our enemy.
And we are the foreign enemy of someone.

Tina Sequeira

#14. I am all for niceties. But, I love and appreciate a healthy dose of naughtiness in everything I do and everywhere I go as well. You need some sugar sweethearts as well as some total nuts to make your life a real party.

Tina Sequeira

#15. Indian food has been huge in the UK forever and ever, but that's because it has a historical rooting. America, I think is really ripe for it. There's been so much interest in Indian culture.

Aarti Sequeira

#16. It is said, in a fire, everyone runs away from it save for the fireman who run towards it. When dealing with students, be the fireman.

Patricia Sequeira Belvel

#17. The power we hold comes with an added responsibility to inspire through words or actions and build someone else's life. Our power definitely does not lie in zapping others of their powers.

Tina Sequeira

#18. I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.

Aarti Sequeira

#19. It was improv that really helped me start coming up with recipes and just believe in my instincts. That's why the first recipe I made up was 'I Ain't Chicken Chicken' because I finally felt bold and fearless in the kitchen, which was an entirely new feeling for me.

Aarti Sequeira

#20. You may sound like a crazed chicken while chanting this unholy mantra! But, I promise you, the peace and confidence that this mantra will bring into your life is simply priceless.

Tina Sequeira

#21. I think there is a real misconception about Indian food being super spicy. And I know that's because when you go into an Indian restaurant, it is pretty spicy. But it doesn't have to be. In fact, my husband can't handle a lot of heat. I've had to temper my cooking so that he can eat with me.

Aarti Sequeira

#22. I simplify the spices. I'm the same way as everybody else: if I look at a recipe and there's ten spices in it, I'm going to have to think long and hard about when I'm going to be able to make that ... so I try to simplify the spices to three or four.

Aarti Sequeira

#23. Silence is a language in itself. Perhaps the loudest and most beautiful of them all!

Tina Sequeira

#24. You wake up one day and realise that your struggles and battles are your own and no one else s. And there is no one more capable to fight all the odds and enemies except you and you alone!

Tina Sequeira

#25. No matter how heavy and gruesome the cross you have to carry in your life, surrender to the suffering and RISE.

Tina Sequeira

#26. The food in south India is the food that I really love because it reminds me of home.

Aarti Sequeira

#27. Ideally, Competition should be a wonderful vicious circle of being inspired and inspiring others to achieve excellence and being the best version of themselves.

Tina Sequeira

#28. The truth is that there is opportunity right now in your present day. Every day offers its own set of golden opportunities.

Tina Sequeira

#29. I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.

Aarti Sequeira

#30. It is important to dream big. What we imagine, we become..we achieve. Even if we don t go the yonder, we will reach way much farther than where we currently stand.

Tina Sequeira

#31. Sometimes, I wonder .....

Are we all as identical on our way out of the Earth...like the way we all came into it?

If so, at what point do all our identities merge into a final whole?

Are we all nameless and blank at point Infinity?

Tina Sequeira