Kitchen Quotes
“The fondest memories are made when gathered around the table”
“Kitchen. Noun – A gathering place for friends and family. A place where memories are homemade and seasoned with love.”
“In the childhood memories of every good cook, there’s a large kitchen, a warm stove, a simmering pot and a mom.” ― Barbara Costikyan
“Everything happens in the kitchen. Life happens in the kitchen.” ― Andrew Zimmern
“The secret ingredient is always love.”
“Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.” ― Alfred Hitchcock
“If you can organise your kitchen, you can organise your life.” ― Louis Parrish
“The kitchen is where you put all the ingredients together. No matter what you do in life, you have to have a plan and put it together.” ― Yo Gotti
“Cooking is one of the strongest ceremonies for life.” ― Laura Esquivel
“The more you know, the more you can create. There’s no end to imagination in the kitchen.” ― Julia Child
“The kitchen is a place of adventure and entirely fun, not drudgery. I can’t think of anything better to do with family and friends than to be together to create something.” ― Ted Allen
“The kitchen is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.”
“We dance in this kitchen.”
“Eat, drink, and be merry.”
“Kitchens are made for bringing families together.”
“The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.” ― Mario Batali
“The love the whole process of making them, just out in the kitchen together making pancakes on a Sunday morning.” ― Ronda Rousey
“Good food and a warm kitchen is what makes a house a home.” ― Rachael Ray
“The kitchen is the heart of every home, for the most part. It evokes memories of your family history.” ― Debi Mazar
“Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything.” ― Julia Child
“I think preparing food and feeding people brings nourishment not only to our bodies but to our spirits. Feeding people is a way of loving them, in the same way, that feeding ourselves is a way of honoring our own createdness and fragility.” ― Shauna Niequist
“I train my chefs completely different from anyone else. My young girls and guys, when they come to the kitchen, the first thing they get is a blindfold. They get blindfolded and they get sat down at the chef’s table… Unless they can identify what they’re tasting, they don’t get to cook it.” ― Gordon Ramsay
“I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.” ― Jack Kerouac
“If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I’d hear a loud ‘A-hem!’ from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same.” ― Maya Angelou
“The kitchen may be the heart of the home, but it is also the place that naturally attracts the most clutter and mess.” ― Brette Sember
“If my kid couldn’t draw I’d make sure that my kitchen magnets didn’t work.” ― Mitch Hedberg
“I have tennis shoes with little rhinestones that I slip on if I exercise. But I always wear heels, even around the house. I’m such a short little thing, I can’t reach my kitchen cabinets.” ― Dolly Parton
“I’ve been my mom’s kitchen helper since I was a little kid.” ― Taylor Swift
“We journalists don’t have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scutter.” ― P. J. O’Rourke
“I’m a chef, I own restaurants, and there’s a behavior in the kitchen you have to have.” ― Guy Fieri
“No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime.” ― Mason Cooley
“Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: Eat out.” ― Phyllis Diller
“Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.” ― Alfred Hitchcock
“My grandpa was a country singer, and I started learning guitar from him, just at the kitchen table when I was younger, and I got really into it.” ― Trixie Mattel
“My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.” ― Phyllis Diller
“The worst mistake of a woman is to go to the kitchen because then she never gets out of there.” ― Shakira
“Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I’ll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.” ― Charles Bukowski
“You know, you really can’t beat a household commodity – the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.” Adlai Stevenson I
“There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.” ―
“The place I like best in this world is the kitchen. No matter where it is, no matter what kind, if it’s a kitchen, if it’s a place where they make food, it’s fine with me. Ideally, it should be well broken in. Lots of tea towels, dry and immaculate. Where tile catching the light (ting! ting!)” ―
“Afterwards, they always had tea in the kitchen, much the nicest room in the house.” ―
“I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.” ― Zora Neale Hurston
“The truth is that cleaning up socks and trying to get someone to really listen to you is marriage. It’s less sweep you off your feet and more sweep the kitchen four times a day. Like everything good in life, it’s 98% back-breaking work and 2% moments that make the work worthwhile.” ― Glennon Doyle Melton
“Kitchen Confidential’ wasn’t a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia.” ― Anthony Bourdain
“This is terrific. What a gorgeous kitchen. You’ve decorated it so beautifully. Now you’re going to have to clear all the counters. Vases. Books. Knickknacks. Get rid of all that stuff. I mean, it is just beautiful. Beautiful. I love what you’ve done with this house. Make sure you put it all away.” ―
“I think being young and, like, 14, 15, you feel like a weirdo, and playing guitar with my grandpa in my grandma’s kitchen is probably my fondest memories I’ll ever have.” ― Trixie Mattel