Quotes by Julia Child

“Life itself is the proper binge.”

“You have come nearer to mastering a good many aspects of cooking than anyone except a handful of great chefs, and some day it will pay off. I know it will. You will just have to go on working, and ...”

“I'm getting stale. I always do this time of year. I keep my nose to the grindestone and put in long hours and rustle up good meals and do all the chores and run errands and get along with people --...”

“Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured.”

“To think that we might easily have gone through life not knowing each other, missing all this free flow of love and ideas and warmth and sharing... We share really almost everything. (Avis DeVoto t...”

“In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won liberty and freedom; for our Constitution and the due processes of our...”

“It is horrible how people will use anything as a political monkey wrench and to hell with the country. (Julia Child to Avis DeVoto)”

“I am in a state about all of this. I comb the newspapers. I listen to the commentators. And I get into fights all over the place. If a Republican knows his place and hates McCarthy and wishes to Go...”

“You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.”

“I'm afraid that surprise, shock, and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page.”

“The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.”

“The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.”

“If you're afraid of butter, use cream.”

“How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?”

“It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.”

“I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make. When one's hostess starts in with self-deprecations such as "Oh, I don't know how to cook...," or...”

“Just like becoming an expert in wineyou learn by drinking it, the best you can affordyou learn about great food by finding the best there is, whether simply or luxurious. The you savor it, analyze ...”

“Persevering is not often simply a matter of working hard and refusing to quit; often, by trying again, failing again, and failing better, we inadvertently place ourselves in the way of luck.”

“But my favorite remained the basic roast chicken. What a deceptively simple dish. I had come to believe that one can judge the quality of a cook by his or her roast chicken. Above all, it should ta...”

“The German birds didn't taste as good as their French cousins, nor did the frozen Dutch chickens we bought in the local supermarkets. The American poultry industry had made it possible to grow a fi...”