Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Calvin Trillin
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: December 5
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Kansas City
Missouri
Calvin Marshall Trillin
Nothing
Mom
Favourite
Dieting
Thing
Eating
Motherhood
Cuisine
Years
Humor
Meals
Parenthood
Never
Food
Remarkable
Meal
Funny
Thirty
Chef
Family
Originals
Parenting
Leftovers
Found
Original
Served
Cookbook
Mother
Cooking
Culinary
Mothering
More quotes by Calvin Trillin
If Lincoln freed the slaves and preserved the Union, how come 'Lincolnesque' just means tall?
Calvin Trillin
I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
Calvin Trillin
The Banh Mi sandwich is really the only good argument for colonialism.
Calvin Trillin
What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.
Calvin Trillin
Everybody is who he was in high school.
Calvin Trillin
When someone reaches middle age, people he knows begin to get put in charge of things, and knowing what he knows about the people who are being put in charge of things scares the hell out of him.
Calvin Trillin
Law professors were never like economics professors, a Harvard Law professor told me. If you disagreed with someone, you didn't call him a fool.
Calvin Trillin
I like chili, but not enough to discuss it with someone from Texas.
Calvin Trillin
I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
Calvin Trillin
I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.
Calvin Trillin
How did Italy manage to end up with no Caribbean islands at all? Christopher Columbus took the trouble to discover the Caribbean personally before the end of the fifteenth century. Try to get a decent plate of spaghetti there now.
Calvin Trillin
It was a given in our family that my father was a grocer so that I wouldn't have to be.
Calvin Trillin
At American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom.
Calvin Trillin
Why in the world are you a Republican?
Calvin Trillin
There is a theory that sooner or later anything in America that is any fun at all will be ruined by people from California.
Calvin Trillin
Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.
Calvin Trillin
Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
Calvin Trillin
When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
Calvin Trillin
The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?
Calvin Trillin
I suppose that there are endeavors in which self-confidence is even more important than it is in writing -- tightrope walking comes immediately to mind -- but it's difficult for me to think of anybody producing much writing if his confidence is completely shot.
Calvin Trillin
