#grocer

I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I'm the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store. ↗

— Dave Mustaine

#broken #dad #family #food #food stamps

I had to live and breathe Margaret Thatcher for a few months. I totally engulfed myself in her life. I read her autobiography and a biography, 'The Grocer's Daughter.' ↗

— Alexandra Roach

#biography #breathe #daughter #engulfed #few

All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say? ↗

— Steven Saylor

#act #does #even #grocery #how

I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible. ↗

— Connie Willis

#although #anything #draft #even #friends

I thought about that the other day after I went to the grocery store and had to sign fifteen autographs before leaving. On one hand, it's just so flattering. On the other hand, sometimes it would be nice to get the bread and leave, you know? ↗

— Clay Aiken

#after #autographs #be nice #before #bread

I'm really trying to respond to the foods that are in the stores and just pulling the things that are the very best and cook what looks beautiful and is seasonal. That's the way to go. I love going to the grocery store and the market. None of it's drudgery for me. Washing dishes is the drudgery. ↗

— Ted Allen

#best #cook #dishes #drudgery #foods

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#attracted #business #force #great #grocer

By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in college. ↗

— Sidney Altman

#adequately #any #by the time #choose #college

My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business. ↗

— Bob Balaban

#business #came #chicago #children #dad

I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries. ↗

— Bette Davis

#because #groceries #had #i #pay