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Breakfast Cereal Quotes

An ordinary morning staple used in some unexpected ways.

These breakfast cereal quotes start with the admission that the subject itself is usually pretty Boring, the kind of small talk people fall into by accident. From there they stretch further than expected, into shipping history and personal identity.

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

Quotes by Adlai Stevenson I

Who cares about the men who steered your breakfast cereal through winter storms? How ironic that the more ships have grown in size and consequence, the less space they take up in our imagination.

Quotes by Rose George

Sometimes you actually get caught in the web of things where people are talking about... what kind of breakfast cereal you like.

Quotes by Josh Homme

Really the topic of breakfast cereal is generally a very boring one.

Quotes by Josh Homme

Black Quotes

It was natural to see the struggle for dignity for black people in America as a sister struggle of the Jewish struggle. So growing up, it was always a part of my breakfast cereal to think of myself as someone...

Quotes by Eugene Jarecki

Every film is a remake of a previous film, or a remake of a television series that everyone loved in the 1960s, or a remake of a television series that everyone hated in the 1960s. Or it's a theme park...

Quotes by Alan Moore

Frequently Asked Questions

Do these quotes take breakfast cereal seriously as a topic?
Not entirely, one openly calls the topic of breakfast cereal a boring one, treating it as filler conversation rather than something meaningful.
How does breakfast cereal come up in casual conversation, per these quotes?
One describes getting caught in exactly that kind of small talk, discussing which cereal someone prefers as if it mattered more than it does.
What's the shipping connection to breakfast cereal?
One quote wonders about the people who moved cereal shipments through winter storms, noting the irony that larger ships take up less space in public imagination than they used to.
How is breakfast cereal tied to personal identity in these quotes?
One quote recalls that connecting themselves to a broader cultural struggle was, oddly, just part of their breakfast cereal growing up, folding identity into an everyday routine.
Is breakfast cereal treated as boring or meaningful overall?
Both, depending on the quote, some dismiss it outright while others use it as an unlikely entry point into bigger ideas.

One quote uses breakfast cereal as shorthand for an early, everyday part of forming a sense of self growing up. Another nods to the overlooked people behind getting Cereal through winter storms, a detail most never consider.