Quotes by Julia Child

Non-cooks think its silly to invest two hours work in two minutes enjoyment but if cooking is evanescent so is the ballet.

If youre in a good profession its hard to get bored because youre never finished-there will always be work you havent done.

Find something youre passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if youre in a crowd, youll always have some clean air to breathe.

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know theyre right if you love to be with them all the time.

I think careful cooking is love, dont you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone whos close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.

I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.

As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of everything. No snacking. And have a good time.

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

You learn to cook so that you dont have to be a slave to recipes. You get whats in season and you know what to do with it.

Because of media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afraid of their food, and what does fear of food do to the digestive system? I am sure that an unhappy or suspicious stomach, constricted and uneasy with worry, cannot digest properly.

When I got to France I realized I didnt know very much about food at all. Id never had a real cake. Id had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesnt have anything like that in it - its all egg power.

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

I dont believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make.

I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say him rather than her. Maybe its because of my generation, but I dont like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male.

In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking.

What a marvelous resource soup is for the thrifty cook - it solves the ham-bone and lamb-bone problems, the everlasting Thanksgiving turkey, the extra vegetables.

In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for mens underwear.