#turk

If you really love stuffing, wait until the turkey comes out of the oven, add some of the pan drippings to the stuffing, and bake it in a dish. That's called dressing, and that's not evil - stuffing is, though. ↗

— Alton Brown

#bake #called #comes #dish #dressing

I only eat fish - no chicken, no turkey, just fish. I get all my protein from fish and egg whites. ↗

— Jack LaLanne

#eat #egg #fish #get #i

The commerce of India does not grow, nor does that of Portugal, or of Turkey; that but that of the protected countries does increase, as has been shown in the case of Spain, and can now be shown in that of Germany. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#case #commerce #countries #does #germany

In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#atrocities #called #coming #go #government

Ataturk sent several Turkish staff officers to Afghanistan, helped them build their own army. ↗

— Bulent Ecevit

#army #build #helped #officers #own

I am a living illustration of Bosnian mixing and converting. My grandparents lived in eastern Herzegovina. Very poor. The Turks came and brought Islam. There were three brothers in the family. One was Orthodox Christian. The other two took Islam to survive. ↗

— Emir Kusturica

#bosnian #brothers #brought #came #christian

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#country #crow #desire #eat #eating

I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#being #connection #constant #continuity #countries

From the first, Istanbul had given him the impression of a town where, with the night, horror creeps out of the stones. It seemed to him a town the centuries had so drenched in blood and violence that, when daylight went out, the ghosts of its dead were its only population. ↗

— Ian Fleming

#death #horror #istanbul #night #turkey

Turkey's true master is the peasant. ↗

— Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

#peasant #turkey #inspirational