#time

Most people who came here came for economic reasons or sometimes for religious or political reasons. I didn't have any of this. I came here, I liked it, I stayed. So I'm a pure American - even more than people who are born here - because I did it by choice as an adult. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#american #any #because #born #came

This is what a family is all about - one another, sitting around the table at night. And it's very, very important, I think, for the kid to spend time not only around the table eating with their parents, but in the kitchen. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#another #around #eating #family #i

You can't escape the taste of the food you had as a child. In times of stress, what do you dream about? Your mother's clam chowder. It's security, comfort. It brings you home. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#brings #child #comfort #dream #escape

You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, to go into apprenticeship. And actually when I left home, home was a restaurant - like I said, my mother was a chef. So I can't remember any time in my life, from age 5, 6, that I wasn't in a kitchen. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#age #any #apprenticeship #chef #go

Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company. ↗

— Samuel Pepys

#business #company #drinking #find #god

There are moments of life that we never forget, which brighten and brighten as time steals away. ↗

— James Gates Percival

#brighten #forget #life #moments #never

I do try not to spend much time reading in the suspense genre. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#i #i do #much #reading #spend

I have spent my tenure in office - and, in fact, my adult lifetime - fighting for things that I care deeply about. And as anyone who knows me will tell you, I do not back down from tough fights. ↗

— Bev Perdue

#adult #anyone #back #care #deeply

Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#became #capital #charm #convinced #criticism

I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#army #before #first #first of all #i