Top 162 Stove Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes I think I'll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.

I'd never buy my girl a watch... she's already got a clock over the stove.

Every time I go near the stove, the dog howls.

Count Olaf certainly does sound evil. Imagine forcing children to stand near a stove!

A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove.

I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star.

When I was a kid of six or seven, I used to get up on the stove woodpile for a stage and I'd put on the wildest show.

Enthusiasm is as good a thing in the Church as fire is in a cook stove.

An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't?

Everything was curved to fit the walls: the stove, the sink and the cupboards, and all of it had been painted with flowers, insects and birds in bright primary colours.

the ultimate in longevity is the Christmas fruitcake. It is a cake made during the holidays with fruits that make it heavier than the stove it is cooked in.

Hell's Kitchen is open 24/7, and I'm cooking on the stove all day.

Time to plant tears, says the almanac. The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove and the child draws another inscrutable house.

'Green' does not have to mean the sort of hair-shirt, wood-burning-stove sensibility of the '70s. Green can and should be sleek and modern.

I'm into eating as little as possible... I never cook. Never use the stove or anything.

I bent my head over a stove in my early 20s and picked it up in my 30s.

A child can be taught not to do certain things, such as touch a hot stove, pull lamps off of tables, and wake Mommy before noon.

The baddest woman in my book... my mother. I get scared of her now. She used to hit me with anything, skillets, stove wood.

Do you know what pain is, Cammie? It’s the body’s physical response to imminent harm. It is the mind’s way of telling us to move our hand off the stove or let go of the broken glass.

[T]he cold warms me—after a different fashion from that of the kitchen stove.

Sometimes if you want to know for sure whether the stove is hot, the only way to find out is to touch it.

Store spices in a cool, dark place, not above your stove. Humidity, light and heat will cause herbs and spices to lose their flavor.

If you want to warm a church, put a stove in the pulpit.

If we were controlling the performance, we never would have had someone push a button to make the pellet stove come on during a climatic moment. And after the loud pellet stove moment, which is like a Todd Haynes's Safe interruption into the home and into the narrative - as if the home is a like a ghost surrounding the characters - her performance changes entirely.

It was my first day working at Tour d'Argent, a famous restaurant in Paris, in 1982, and they were celebrating their 400th anniversary. I am in the fish station and after many mistakes, including cutting myself after 30 seconds in that kitchen, the chef said, "Make a Hollandaise sauce with 32 yolks." It takes me forever to separate the yolks from the whites, and I put them in a bowl and try to go close to the stove, but the stove is way too hot for me.

A cat that jumps on a hot stove will never jump on a hot stove again. Neither will it jump on a cold stove.

Every morning the cuisinier must start again at zero, with nothing on the stove. That is what real cuisine is all about.

I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.

I can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove.

If you're Mejicana or Mejicano and don't know who Pedro Infante is, you should be tied to a hot stove with yucca rope and beaten with sharp dry corn husks as you stand in a vat of soggy fideos.

One evening when I had my wood-burning stove going I realized I hadn't thought of dessert.

If a cat sits on a hot stove once, it will never sit on a cold one either.

Cooking has always brought me a happiness that I didn't think was available. I just fire up the stove, and things start to fade away.

I am in love with my La Cornue custom-made stove - it's a dream to use and my favourite part of the kitchen.

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

When I was growing up, a warm, crusty baguette was within arm's reach during every dinner: sliced, if my mom was cooking, or left whole so we could tear it apart if my dad was at the stove.

We lit the stove a few days ago and the entire room is filled with smoke. I prefer central heating, and I'm probably not the only one.

Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.

A grill is just a source of heat. Just like a stove, it is very user-friendly.

Kids only learn that the stove is hot when they put their finger on and they burn it. This, unfortunately, is the limitation of our precious brain.

For something warm, try adding cinnamon sticks and nutmeg to apple cider simmering on the stove. You'll get the added benefit of making your home smell amazing.

My nanna was an extraordinary lady, and a good old-fashioned cook. She'd just be pottering around, cooking dinner for 25 people on a wood-fired stove without a problem.

Every time you warm yourself in front of a hot coal stove, remember the coal miners in the cold dark corridors and pray for them!

At some point in your career, someone is going to tell you, "This stove is hot. Do not touch this stove." And the weird thing is, you'll want to touch it. But resist that urge, man.

I can see you in the kitchen bending over a hot stove, and I can't see the stove

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

I just . . . knew, the way you know how to breathe or to pull your hand back from a hot stove.

Grilling used to make me nervous, but then I learned to view the fire as just another source of heat, no different from a stove or an oven.

So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.

Time flames like a paraffin stove / and what burns are the minutes I live.

I wouldn't want to be in one room, 20 hours a day, 52 weeks a year, with four white walls and a stove. I think it stunts your growth as a human being.

I'm the type of guy to put the water on the stove and then walk away and 10 seconds later be like, 'Come on, boil'!

Death smells like homemade applesauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling scent of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.

You can't be a chef and appear on television all the time. It's impossible. At least when I earned my stars, I was always behind my stove.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. Nor upon a cold stove lid.

When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally.

I know that you like to see a man in the kitchen, but I'm skeptical of men who cook. A man should be focusing his attention on the woman, and not what's on the stove.

I almost feel like throwing Jimmy into the stove, as the priest in Kulenberg did.

When one married a man, it was clear to me, one married also the sink and the stove.