62 Quotes by Pearl Bailey

The first and worst of all, fraud is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

You cannot belong to anyone else until you belong to yourself.

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you -- if you don't repeat it.

My kitchen is a mystical place, a kind of temple for me. It is a place where the surfaces seem to have significance, where the sounds and odors carry meaning that transfers from the past and bridges to the future.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

The fact is that it takes more than ingredients and technique to cook a good meal. A good cook puts something of himself into the preparation—he cooks with enjoyment, anticipation, spontaneity, and he is willing to experiment.

A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.

If you walk out of here with a diploma in your hand, you better walk out of here with something these professors put in your heads, too. And retain it, or you're going to be in bad trouble.