Quotations and Literature Forum

We are redoing the kitchen and I would like a quote to stencil (or use wallword stickers) to put above the bay window.

Do you know of any quotes that may work?

I'd like something in English. My friend used Bon Appetit.....but I don't really want to use that.

I did find "Brindiamo a la vita" which means a toast to life in Italian, but it still isn't doing it for me.

If anyone could help me with a quote....something about welcome, family, feast, or friendship......something "cozy" like that, I would so appreciate it!

Thanks so much

Joy

Do you know the Selkirk Grace?

Some hae meat and canna eat
And some hae nane but want it
But we hae meat and we can eat
And sae the Lord be thankit

Henry

When baking, follow directions. When cooking, go by your own taste.
~Laiko Bahrs
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
~Fran Lebowitz
A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.
~James Beard
Hunger: One of the few cravings that cannot be appeased with another solution.
~Irwin Van Grove
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
~Aldous Huxley
It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.
~Julia Childs
Bread and butter, devoid of charm in the drawing-room, is ambrosia eating under a tree.
~Elizabeth Russell
Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.
~Frances Moore Lappé
He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
~Samuel Johnson
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
~Samuel Johnson
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
~George Bernard Shaw
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
~Molière
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
~Virginia Woolf
A Messy Kitchen Is A Happy Kitchen And This Kitchen Is Delirious
A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
Thou shalt not weigh more than thy refrigerator.
A Clean House Is A Sign Of A Misspent Life
Help Keep the Kitchen Clean - Eat Out
Housework Done Properly Can Kill You
Countless Number Of People Have Eaten In This Kitchen and Gone On To Lead Normal Lives
Our next house will have no kitchen --- just vending machines.
Welcome to the Church of the Holy Cabbage. Lettuce pray.

This is the one that we have in our Kitchen, i'm not sure if your Christian, but if you are, this one is ideal:



(My Kitchen Prayer

Bless my little kitchen lord.
I love it's every nook.
And bless me as I do my work,
Wash pots and pans and cook.


May the meals that I prepare,
Be seasoned from above.
With thy blessing and thy grace,
But most of all they love.


As we partake of earthly food,
The table thou hast spread.
We'll not forget to thank thee lord,
For all our daily bread.


So bless my little kitchen lord,
And those who enter in.
May they find naught but joy and peace,
And happiness therein.

Amen)


A quotation that I would put in my kitchen, although it is not related to food or cooking, is this:

May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back,
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
The rain fall soft upon your fields,
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.
- Irish Blessing

The Irish Blesing is ideal even if you are not Irish.
Food like a loving touch or a glimpse of divine power has that ability to comfort. norman kolpas

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Thou, who canst guide the wandering star
Who calm’st the elemental war
Whose mantle is yon boundless sky
My thoughts, my words, my crimes forgive
And since I soon must cease to live
Instruct me how to die.~Lord Byron
Rogue insomniac

I don't know who said this , but it's great for the kitchen.... "A waist is a terrible thing to mind"......

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earthmother