Julia Child Quotes

How lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.

We should enjoy food and have fun. It is one of the simplest and nicest pleasures in life.

The best way to execute French cooking is to get good and loaded and whack the hell out of a chicken.

A party without cake is really just a meeting.

With enough butter, anything is good

Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal.

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

People who love to eat are always the best people.

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

I enjoy cooking with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food I'm cooking.

I think every woman should have a blowtorch.

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

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

Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.

The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile.

This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!

As you get older, you shouldn't waste time drinking bad wine.

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.

Eating is the secret to good cooking.

It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions.

Romance is the icing but love is the cake.

Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music.

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

Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous time!

Sooner or later the public will forget you; the memory of you will fade. What's important are the individuals you've influenced along the way.