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Gravy Quotes

Comfort in a bowl: quotes celebrating gravy.

Gravy shows up here as pure comfort food memory, from Christmas morning breakfasts of biscuits and gravy to a father skeptical of organic food next to his beloved nut loaf and gravy. It's a cozy companion to our America quotes collection.

Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it...

Quotes by Robert Farrar Capon

If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride.

Quotes by Patricia Clarkson

The biggest problem was convincing my father that organic food was worth eating. All he could think of was the nut loaf with yeast gravy that my mother made in the Seventies.

Quotes by Nell Newman

I always knew I'd keep at it with the plodding doggedness that I used to master lump-less gravy and wriggle out of fitness classes; I always knew I'd get a zillion rejection slips. I figured I'd write part time while...

Quotes by MaryJanice Davidson

Able Quotes

Our traditions have been waking up on Christmas morning and feasting on a southern breakfast. I'm from the South. We eat grits and biscuits and gravy and eggs with Ritz crackers and country ham, bacon, you name it.

Quotes by Leigh-Allyn Baker

There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained...

Quotes by Julie Burchill

When I was a kid, we'd go crabbing, as a lot of folks do on the East Coast, and we'd catch some fresh crabs and take it home, and Mom would turn it into this unbelievable crab gravy - or,...

Quotes by Frankie Avalon

I like day-after-Christmas omelets, day-after Christmas pizzas... Or you take croissant rolls, put gravy on top, turkey, mashed potatoes, cheese, more gravy. That sounds good!

Quotes by Eric Stonestreet

My favorite splurge is homemade chocolate cake and vanilla ice cream or a Sausage McMuffin with egg or scalloped potatoes or turkey yanked right off the carcass and dipped in gravy or See's chocolate.

Quotes by Elizabeth Berg

Always Quotes

The borrow-spend-and-centralize agenda that has been so destructive to job creation elsewhere in America has been a gravy boat inside the Beltway.

Quotes by Elaine Chao

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Frequently Asked Questions

What do these gravy quotes cover?
They range from nostalgic family food traditions, like Southern Christmas breakfasts, to lighter memories of learning to cook a proper lump-free gravy.
Why would someone search for gravy quotes?
People look for these quotes around the holidays, when writing about comfort food, or when reflecting on family cooking traditions passed down through generations.
Is there a quote connecting gravy to family tradition?
Yes, one describes waking up on Christmas morning to a Southern breakfast of biscuits, gravy, eggs, and country ham, a vivid family tradition.
Does any quote treat gravy as a metaphor for persistence?
One does, comparing the plodding effort of mastering lump-free gravy to the doggedness needed to keep writing through rejection.
How does this connect to our America quotes collection?
Since gravy traditions here are tied closely to Southern American cooking, our America quotes collection offers related cultural context.

One writer even recalls the doggedness it took to master lump-free gravy, treating a kitchen skill as a life lesson in persistence. For more, browse our Able and Always quotes.