(13 quotes found)
“A child of one can be taught not to do certain things such as touch a hot stove, turn on the gas, pull lamps off their tables by their cords, or wake mommy before noon”
Joan Rivers
“Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.”
Robert Frost
“In an odd way, all the appliances that the advertisers put out there, and said, `Buy this brand-new stove!', `Buy the fridge!' `Make Jell-O!', all that horrible nutrition that came up because of instant pudding, Jell-O, fish sticks, TV dinners, all of that that I had before dismissed as the death of our culture -- I realized that housewives wanted these things, because they wanted time back, ... A washing machine gave them time to do something else. It gave them time to read a book. ... A woman didn't want to cook all day. These things that were sold to Americans were actually a gift, in a very strange way. I really enjoyed having to blow that notion out of my head.”
Jane Anderson
“Because of No Child Left Behind, sadly, history is being put on the back burner or taken off the stove altogether in many or most schools, in favor of math and reading,”
David McCullough
“He's shown the Padres 80 times what he can do. You don't get too close to the stove without getting burned.”
Bruce Bochy
“We lost everything. Appliances, stove, refrigerator, furniture, everything.”
Robert Mooney
“Everything is rigged so when the alarm goes, the oven and stove and everything automatically turns off so we don't have to worry about the station burning down. And if the food is on the table when we get a call, well, that's what God created microwave ovens for.”
Capt. Roger Boone
“I would take my kitchen apart. I would completely clean the stove and refrigerator, and take the dishwasher apart. I know parts of a dishwasher nobody ever sees. I'd tell the family to stay out of my way and don't make crumbs.”
Ruth Glazier
“I caught him sniffing gas from the stove, so we had to put a lock on the gas cut-off valve.”
Janet Abercrombie
“When I was a kid of six or seven, I used to get up on the stove woodpile for a stage and I'd put on the wildest show.”
Jerry Reed
