{"quotes":[{"text":"A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","compassion","compassionate","deep","dictum","dictums","dustbin","dustbins","eat","eating","epigram","epigrams","food","garbage","garbage-can","garbage-cans","gnome","gnomes","hobo","hobos","homeless","humor","humour","insightful","leftovers","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","meal","meals","philanthropist","philanthropists","philanthropy","pity","poor","portion","poverty","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","rich","satire","satirical","saying","sayings","sincere","sincerity","sympathetic","sympathy","thought-provoking","thoughtful","trash","trash-can","trash-cans","truly"],"id":26095,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Someone needs your actions to inspire his actions. Never forget, your little broken cake is someone’s daily meal! Care to share you little cake!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["cake","care","caring-is-sharing","daily-bread","daily-meal","encourage","encouragement","food-for-thought","inspirations","inspire","israelmore-ayivor","little","meal","motivate","motivations","share","sharing-is-caring","tiny"],"id":37108,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Too often we only identify the crucial points in our lives in retrospect. At the time we are too absorbed in the fetid detail of the moment to spot where it is leading us. But not this time. I was experiencing one of my dad’s deafening moments. If my life could be understood as a meal of many courses (and let’s be honest, much of it actually was), then I had finished the starters and I was limbering up for the main event. So far, of course, I had made a stinking mess of it. I had spilled the wine. I had dropped my cutlery on the floor and sprayed the fine white linen with sauce. I had even spat out some of my food because I didn’t like the taste of it.“But it doesn’t matter because, look, here come the waiters. They are scraping away the debris with their little horn and steel blades, pulled with studied grace from the hidden pockets of their white aprons. They are laying new tablecloths, arranging new cutlery, placing before me great domed wine glasses, newly polished to a sparkle. There are more dishes to come, more flavors to try, and this time I will not spill or spit or drop or splash. I will not push the plate away from me, the food only half eaten. I am ready for everything they are preparing to serve me. Be in no doubt; it will all be fine.” (pp.115-6).","author":"Jay Rayner","tags":["absorbed","apron","courses","crucial-points","cutlery","deafening-moments","debris","floor","food","grace","identify","linen","lives","main-event","meal","mess","moment","plate","pockets","retrospect","sauce","splash","starters","tablecloth","taste","time","waiters","wine","wine-glass"],"id":46714,"author_id":"Jay+Rayner"},{"text":"You'll have to leave my meals on a tray outside the door because I'll beworking pretty late on the secret of making myself invisible, which may take me almost until eleven o'clock.","author":"S.J. Perelman","tags":["captain","invisible","kick","meal","perelman","satire","work"],"id":71525,"author_id":"S.J.+Perelman"},{"text":"Never give up in life, give your whole hearted try to every challenge coming your way even though the challenge seems impossible and much beyond your reach and potential.","author":"Pravin Agarwal","tags":["8","beyond","challenge","course","every","give","hearted","impossible","life","meal","never","potential","reach","soul","try","whole"],"id":75359,"author_id":"Pravin+Agarwal"},{"text":"He tried to measure his day by tallying the hours on his wrist.I wiped it off and called him a prisoner.He placed the hours on a scalewith hours from former days to compare.I took a hammer and broke it all.He bent down and picked up the shards of minutes firstthen swept the seconds.I told him he’d missed a spot;there were some sparkling specks left.'What are they?' he asked.'Those are moments,' I said.'What are they made of?' he asked.They are times, I thought, when you win a raceor win a heart.They are times when you give birth or lay something, someone to rest.When you wake up in the morning with a smile because anything is possible.When someone compliments the thing you hate most about yourself.Times when you are embarrassed.Times when you are hurtful.Times when you relish in a hearty meal.Times when you service others and are content with a well-spent day.'What are they made of?' he asked again.'They are made up of times when we are fully present.'I picked up one of the specks with the tipof my finger.'Do you remember this?' I asked.'Of course,' he said, 'I was whistling in the kitchen that morning.''Why?' I asked.'Because of the knowledge that I was loved.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["birth","broke","compare","compliment","content","cute","day","embarrass","former","hammer","heart","hours","hurtful","inspiration","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","lesson","love","love-poem","loving","meal","measure","minutes","moments","morning","place","possible","present","prisoner","prose","quote","race","scale","seconds","service","speck","spot","tally","times","whistle","win","wipe","wisdom","wrist"],"id":81048,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"Our most potent memories include the taste and smells of foods we enjoyed as a child in part because it reminds us of who fed us a meal.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["food","food","meal","memories","memory","recollection","taste","tasting"],"id":84193,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"..No meal is good enough to justify all the money and effort wasted in preparing it. It is an illusion and an expense. Live as I do, undeceived.","author":"Peter S. Beagle","tags":["expense","illusion","meal","waste"],"id":110406,"author_id":"Peter+S.+Beagle"},{"text":"We'd better eat before we raise hell.' - Aelin Ashrvyer Galathynius.","author":"Sarah J. Maas","tags":["aelin-ashryver-galathynius","eat","empire-of-storms","eos","food","hell","meal","raise-hell","sarah-j-maas","throne-of-glass","tog"],"id":111980,"author_id":"Sarah+J.+Maas"},{"text":"For breakfast to be called ‘in bed’ instead of ‘on top of a bed,’ the house in which it is about to be eaten has to have at least two rooms (excluding the kitchen); (at least) three, if it has a bathroom.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["anniversary","ate","b-b","bathroom","bathrooms","bed-and-breakfast","breakfast","breakfast-in-bed","breakfasted","breakfasts","chase","court","courtship","eat","eaten","food","hit-on","hitting-on","house","houses","kitchen","kitchens","marriage","marriages","meal","meals","morning","nutrition","poor","poverty","pursue","restroom","restrooms","romance","romantic","room","rooms","toilet","toilets","wedding","weddings","woo"],"id":115200,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":37,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}