Top 106 Quotes & Sayings by Laurie David
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American activist Laurie David.
Last updated on September 16, 2024.
Having a sit down, no screens, home cooked dinner is one of the most powerful things you can do as a parent and I believe it's the most important activity you can do as a family.
And I think comedy obviously a great way to get a message out because you know the reason why things are funny is because they're true.
I'm very average. I'm into fresh, yummy family food. I'm into leftovers.
I find it so exciting to grow your own food.
That's what hurts the environmental movement - holding people to a standard they cannot meet. That just pushes people away.
Scientists speak a certain language. Now there are regular extreme weather reports on the news. Hurricane Katrina was a huge connect-the-dot moment for a lot of people.
My dad was a pool-equipment salesman. He died when I was 12. Heart attack on a golf course.
If you're doing takeout, try to get the healthiest takeout you can. And just take it out of the plastic, right? Get your grandma's old china or get a fancy little bowl, and put the takeout in the bowl and light a candle.
Get your friends together, even if it's just once a week or twice a month, and make dinner together.
If you're cooking at home, you'll eat healthier, and when you add family and friends into the mix, it enriches your social life, too.
Family dinner is how we civilize our children. It is how we get them into good habits like drinking water with supper, saying please and thank you, learning how to listen and take turns. It's how we pass on our family histories.
If you come to my house for a dinner party, it looks like a Toyota dealership, because every single person I know drives a hybrid now.
What is the quickest way to reduce our dependence on oil? Embrace hybrid technology.
Anytime anyone spoofs anything related to the issue of global warming is good, because to me it's like, okay, gets the word out.
Wherever the American diet goes, wherever these foods and drinks go, sickness follows.
Fear of failure, what is that? It would never occur to me.
What does everyone in America own? A car. What is the quickest way to reduce our dependence on oil? Embrace hybrid technology.
Family is anybody you sit down to a meal with - and very often, after college, your family is your friends or the people you work with.
I'm not someone who funds buildings. That doesn't interest me. I'm more interested in programs.
History will judge Senator Inhofe. You know he has a lot or responsibility on his hands for keeping any kind of movement and serious, meaningful action on global warming happening in the Congress.
In some other life I must have been a pioneer woman because I love to have my hands in the dirt.
For a guy who spends endless hours on a golf course, it's best not to have a wife waiting for you at home.
Americans want to reduce our dependence on oil. And Americans really don't wanna be contributing global warming if they can help it.
Look, I don't have the millions of dollars that Exxon has. But I've got comedy. I've got satire. I've got stars.
A successful dinner is one that lasts a while and one where everyone leaves happy.
The health claims on packaging are there because they sell products.
I was almost surprised to realize that I had actually done something right as a parent by insisting on regular family dinners.
I want everyone else to become a global warming activist so it's not all on my shoulders.
A bald man driving a hybrid is a very sexy thing.
One of my main jobs is to cultivate advocates and activists.
Yes, I take a private plane on holiday a couple of times a year, and I feel horribly guilty about it. I probably shouldn't do it. But the truth is, I'm not perfect.
If you can influence five people, fantastic. If you can influence five hundred people, fantastic. It's all important.
My life has been on TV for so long now, I'm used to it.
Kids need rituals. They need the security of them, the bonding time of them.
I'm becoming more of a religious person actually as I get older, which I think is not an unusual phenomenon.
Nobody's a better critic of myself than me, and I try to do the best I can.
When kids help cook, even if its just shredding the herbs or stirring the pot, they eat more and they eat better.
As a young mom I was kind of desperate for some happy family moments and I realized that they don't usually show up all on their own, you have to create them - or at the very least, create an opportunity for them to bloom.
If you take added sugar out of your diet, when you have fruit for dessert it is going to taste fantastic!
I could never just look at a meal as a time to refuel. For me it's an opportunity to accomplish something. To connect, to teach, to share values.
I understand how to deliver a message, that's my skill.
Breaking up is hard to do. It's torture.
Rush Limbaugh criticizes me a lot on the air. I take that as a badge of honor.
If you can't buy a hybrid car, your first question should be, 'What is the fuel economy of this car?'
So many people dread Thanksgiving because they find it traumatic or uncomfortable. My suggestion is to come with a couple of great questions for the table.
Food is being purposefully formulated to addict you.Then it is purposefully marketed, targeted to young children to addict them at an early age. This is unethical, right? This is immoral, particularly when you see the results of it which is this world-wide epidemic of diabetes and obesity.
Everything you worry about as a parent can be improved by sitting down regularly with your kids.
I was going to be the president of a television network. That's where I was going. I was that ambitious.
It's not up to the kids to decide what's healthy for them. That's our job.
And by the way, the United States is the biggest cause in global warming pollution. And we're doing the least about it. I find that personally embarrassing.
School lunch should be made fresh on the premises every day. Our children deserve that respect.
It's easy to get good table talk going if you have a little help in the form of questions, games, newspaper articles, books with fun statistics, things like that.
Just because you've been divorced doesn't mean you're not still a family.
Growing up, I didn't have great family dinners. We sat down every night, and my mother cooked food, but it was always about who was going to leave the table crying first.
Well of course, when you have kids, you become more protective and you think about how to give them the healthiest upbringing and the best future.
Exercise is essential for good health. But we can't exercise our way out of the obesity epidemic.
I had to stop following certain friends because I was constantly seeing them tweet about all the parties that I wasn't invited to! The worst is the Twitpic - people take pictures of themselves at these fun dinners, and you're not there.
Larry and I didn't have two nickels together when we got engaged.
It would be very difficult for me to stay in a marriage with a Republican at this point. Not that there's anything wrong with Republicans, but I happen to be a Democrat.
I didn't have any eating disorder or food addiction, but I struggle like every single person with my weight every day. Honestly, a day does not go by where I am not thinking about what I am eating.
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