Oven Quotes

“But the kitchen will not come into its own again until it ceases to be a status symbol and becomes again a workshop. It may be pastel. It may be ginghamed as to curtains and shining with copper like a picture in a woman's magazine. But you and I will know it chiefly by its fragrances and its clutter. At the back of the stove will sit a soup kettle, gently bubbling, one into which every day are popped leftover bones and vegetables to make stock for sauces or soup for the family. Carrots and leeks will sprawl on counters, greens in a basket. There will be something sweet-smelling twirling in a bowl and something savory baking in the oven. Cabinet doors will gape ajar and colored surfaces are likely to be littered with salt and pepper and flour and herbs and cheesecloth and pot holders and long-handled forks. It won't be neat. It won't even look efficient. but when you enter it you will feel the pulse of life throbbing from every corner. The heart of the home will have begun once again to beat.”
― Phyllis McGinley

“I mean really, how could an artistic individual stay grounded in the nitty-gritty of how many minutes per pound meat has to stay in the oven when trying to fathom the creative philosophy behind the greatest artistic minds of the world?”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“It's okay to keep a broken oven in your yard as long as you call it art.”
― Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

“I feel like the queen of the oven! I am the Queen of all oven-dry! Master of heat! You may now address me as "Your Royal Highness"!”
― Elizabeth Duivenvoorde

“The Judgement is not a question, it's a sure answer, as to a clump of dough, that will yeast and rise, or go in the oven and burn to crust.”
― Anthony Liccione

“He is a horse who will burn and bloat and explode in the sun. Put him back in the oven and let him cook until he's done.”
― Tamora Pierce, Tortall and Other Lands: A Collection of Tales

“When one of us (children) caught measles or whooping cough and we were isolated in bad upstairs, we wrote notes to each other perhaps on the hour. Our devoted mother would pass them for us, after first running them in a hot oven to kill the germs. They came into our hands curled up and warm, sometimes scorched like toast.”
― Eudora Welty, On Writing

“-CHRISTMAS FUSS IN BARBADOS-
Mother would remove the ham from an off white wrappped canvas bag, boiled it for a few hours, then she'd stick cloves all over it, and placed it in the oven,until was baked to perfection- I can still remember that smell-OVER IN AWAY”
― Charmaine J. Forde

“Eating something fresh out of the oven is like a hug you can taste.”
― Regina Brett

“I like how in a Word document I can tap a button and undo what I just did. That kind of functionality does not exist on an oven, and I cannot unscramble an egg. Think about that next time you see a duck.”
― Jarod Kintz, Me and memes and memories

“A cell phone company transmitter is just like mounting a microwave oven up on a pole with its protective door removed. Would you willfully stand next to a microwave oven in operation with no door on it?”
― Steven Magee

“Fantasy + unfulfilled Wishes are the Ingredients, Space the Oven, Psychosis the Dish.”
― Sino Melo

“We do not always know what cake life would bake for us, but we are sure going to eat from its oven anyway.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Burn Like Fire