Leftovers Quotes

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. (Calvin Trillin)
Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past. View quote
Theodor Adorno
In my opinion it is harmful to place important things in the hands of philanthropy, which in Russia is marked by a chance character. Nor should important matters depend on leftovers, which are never there. I would prefer that the government treasury take care of it. View quote
Anton Chekhov
But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers. View quote
Kate Fleetwood
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart. View quote
Thomas Fuller
There are two Christmas traditions I've inherited from my mother. One is the feeling that Christmas isn't complete if you haven't got a ham as well as a turkey. It means that the leftovers are much better. And in a curious way, despite the fact that we're talking about Christmas and ham, it's a very Jewish thing to want to provide a huge spread. I always cook for eight, but make enough to feed 30... View quote
Nigella Lawson
Nation states are archaic leftovers from when each man feared the tribe over the hill, an attitude we can't afford anymore. View quote
David Brin
Once, I was a master at recycling leftovers. Now I cultivate the art of simmering memories. View quote
Jean-Dominique Bauby
My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food. View quote
David Byrne
On that same plantation, there was the field Negro. The field Negroes - those were the masses. There were always more Negroes in the field than there were Negroes in the house. The Negro in the field caught hell. He ate leftovers. In the house they ate high up on the hog. The Negro in the field didn't get anything but what was left of the insides of the hog. View quote
Malcolm X
The only exercise I got as a kid was fork to mouth. Food was equated with love in my household. I thought you left the table when the zipper was down and you'd explode if you took another bite. I'd eat my plate and then everyone else's leftovers. (Paul Stanley)
I go light on breakfast. Sometimes it's a yogurt, but a lot of times it's leftovers from one of my wife's dinners. View quote
Ice Cube
If I'm in the country, my big idea is to do nothing. It means talking, it means cooking with the leftovers in the fridge - l'art d'accommoder les restes - it means gardening. View quote
Christian Louboutin
My wife cooks. I can't cook. I can remix leftovers pretty good, though. View quote
Big Boi
I am someone who puts their takeout or leftovers into the Tupperware and stores it in the refrigerator overnight. View quote
Jane Krakowski
It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them or can't be bothered. View quote
Julian Baggini
At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers. View quote
Kristin Scott Thomas
I simply believe food is too good to throw away - and Christmas leftovers can be a gastronomic opportunity for the well-skilled kitchen forager. With a little imagination, there are a million ways to use up leftovers rather than bin them. View quote
Tristram Stuart
These groups have resented one another and warred against one another with such vehemence and violence as to obscure their common position as sharers of leftovers in a very wealthy country. View quote
Howard Zinn
One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way as to turn those in the 99 percent against one another: small property owners against the propertyless, black against white, native-born against foreign-born, intellectuals and professionals against the uneducated and the unskilled. These groups have resented one another and warred against one another with such vehemence and violence as to obscure their common position as sharers of leftovers in a very wealthy country (w:Divide & rule). View quote
Howard Zinn
Another suggestion is to cook a meal, maybe not every night, but a couple more times a week than you usually do. That way you have leftovers, and you take your lunch to work. (Michelle Obama)
I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates. View quote
Oleg Cassini
The American death penalty exists and it withstands in America because it was a basic and constitutive element of its birth and development. Of the famous 102 «Wandering Fathers» that for first they disembarked from the «Mayflower» in that Continent not to ransack the wealths as they made Spaniards and Portuguese in Mexico and in America of the South, but to build you a new and free society, around the two bystanders they were leftovers of jail that ran away the Justice and the jails of Europe, and a bystander they were men that liberty looked for, and above all that religious. The first ones had in pocket the gun, the seconds the Bible, but in his/her Calvinist version that of the retaliation, based on the conception of a God executioner that demands the death of whom without correct motive it gives it. View quote
Indro Montanelli
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart. View quote
Robert Fulghum