Julia Carolyn Child was an American cooking teacher, author, and television personality. Profoundly inspirational Julia Child quotes will get you through anything when the going gets tough and help you succeed in every aspect of life.
Famous Julia Child Quotes
I think every woman should have a blowtorch. Julia Child
Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it. Julia Child
No matter what happens in the kitchen, never apologize. Julia Child
I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate. Julia Child
People who love to eat are always the best people. Julia Child
The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to have a what the hell attitude. Julia Child
The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook. Julia Child
If you’re afraid of butter, use cream. Julia Child
It is probably really much better not to see one’s intimate family for more than two and a half days at a time. Julia Child
You’ll never know everything about anything, especially something you love. Julia Child
This is my invariable advice to people Learn how to cook try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless and above all have fun. Julia Child
I think every woman should have a blowtorch. Julia Child
Drama is very important in life You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Julia Child
How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex? Julia Child
I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate. Julia Child
Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need. Julia Child
Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you’ll have a marvelous time! Julia Child
Life it self is the proper binge. Julia Child
The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It’s doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile. Julia Child
People who love to eat are always the best people. Julia Child
If you’re afraid of butter, use cream. Julia Child
You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces just good food from fresh ingredients. Julia Child
Always remember If you’re alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who’s going to know? Julia Child
You are the butter to my bread,and the breath to my life. Julia Child
The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to have a what the hell attitude. Julia Child
It’s so beautifully arranged on the plate you know someone’s fingers have been all over it. Julia Child
I think careful cooking is love, don’t you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who’s close to you is about as nice a Valentine as you can give. Julia Child
Remember, No one’s more important than people! In other words, friendship is the most important thing not career or housework, or one’s fatigue and it needs to be tended and nurtured. Julia Child
Life itself is the proper binge. Julia Child
Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything. Julia Child
The best way to execute French cooking is to get good and loaded and whack the hell out of a chicken. Bone appétit. Julia Child
We had a happy marriage because we were together all the time. We were friends as well as husband and wife. We just had a good time. Julia Child
The more you know, the more you can create. There’s no end to imagination in the kitchen. Julia Child
You never forget a beautiful thing that you have made, Chef Bugnard said. Even after you eat it, it stays with you always. Julia Child
A party without cake is really just a meeting. Julia Child
Maybe the cat has fallen into the stew, or the lettuce has frozen, or the cake has collapsed. Eh bien, tant pis. Usually one’s cooking is better than one thinks it is. And if the food is truly vile, then the cook must simply grit her teeth and bear it with a smile, and learn from her mistakes. Julia Child
Remember, no one’s more important than people. In other words, friendship is the most important thing not career or housework, or one’s fatigue and it needs to be tended and nurtured. Julia Child
One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the lessons is to grin and bear it if it cannot be fixed. Julia Child
You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces just good food from fresh ingredients. Julia Child
Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you’ll have a marvelous time! Julia Child
Fat gives things flavor. Julia Child
Upon reflection, I decided I had three main weaknesses I was confused evidenced by a lack of facts, an inability to coordinate my thoughts, and an inability to verbalize my ideas; I had a lack of confidence, which cause me to back down from forcefully stated positions; and I was overly emotional at the expense of careful, scientific though. I was thirty seven years old and still discovering who I was. Julia Child
Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it. Julia Child
In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. Julia Child
Cooking well doesn’t mean cooking fancy. Julia Child
Just like becoming an expert in wine you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford you learn about great food by finding the best there is, whether simply or luxurious. The you savor it, analyze it, and discuss it with your companions, and you compare it with other experiences. Julia Child
You’ll never know everything about anything, especially something you love. Julia Child
Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again. Julia Child
To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating. Julia Child
But I was a pure romantic, and only operating with half my burners turned on. Julia Child
Drama is very important in life You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it’s done right. Even a pancake. Julia Child
The sweetness and generosity and politeness and gentleness and humanity of the French had shown me how lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly. Julia Child
Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it. Julia Child
To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating. Julia Child
Life itself is the proper binge. Julia Child
Drama is very important in life You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Julia Child
In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking. Julia Child
I was thirty seven years old and still discovering who I was. Julia Child
In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, and there was no talk about fat and anything like that, and butter and cream were rife. Those were lovely days for gastronomy, I must say. Julia Child
In the blood heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard won liberty and freedom; for our Constitution and the due processes of our laws; and for the right to differ in ideas, religion and politics. I am convinced that in your zeal to fight against our enemies, you, too, have forgotten what you are fighting for. Julia Child
I was lucky to marry Paul. He was a great inspiration, his enthusiasm about wine and food helped to shape my tastes, and his encouragement saw me through discouraging moments. I never would have had my career without Paul Child. Julia Child
The more you know, the more you can create. There’s no end to imagination in the kitchen. Julia Child
Once you have mastered a technique, you hardly need look at a recipe again and can take off on your own. Julia Child
I admired the English immensely for all that they had endured, and they were certainly honorable, and stopped their cars for pedestrians, and called you sir and madam, and so on. But after a week there, I began to feel wild. It was those ruddy English faces, so held in by duty, the sense of what is done and what is not done, and always swigging tea and chirping, that made me want to scream like a hyena. Julia Child
I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help. Julia Child
She was my first cat ever, and I thought she was marvelous. Julia Child
As a girl, I had zero interest in the stove. I’ve always had a healthy appetite, especially for the wonderful meat and the fresh produce of California, but I was never encouraged to cook and just didn’t see the point in it. Julia Child
There are only four great arts music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter. Julia Child
I found that the recipes in most in all the books I had were really not adequate. They didn’t tell you enough. I won’t do anything unless I’m told why I’m doing it. So I felt that we needed fuller explanations so that if you followed one of those recipes, it should turn out exactly right. Julia Child
We hit it off immediately, especially Helene, who was a swallow life in big gulps kind of person. Julia Child
I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it’s hard for young people today, don’t you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country. Julia Child
I’m not a chef. I think in this country, we use the term very loosely. I’m a cook and a teacher. Julia Child
Because of media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afraid of their food, and what does fear of food do to the digestive system? I am sure that an unhappy or suspicious stomach, constricted and uneasy with worry, cannot digest properly. Julia Child
It’s easy to get the feeling that you know the language just because when you order a beer they don’t bring you oysters. Julia Child
I fell in love with the public, the public fell in love with me, and I tried to keep it that way. Julia Child
If you don’t pick your audience, you’re lost because you’re not really talking to anybody. Julia Child
It’s so beautifully arranged on the plate you know someone’s fingers have been all over it. Julia Child
I’m afraid that surprise, shock, and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page. Julia Child
I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate. Julia Child
I would far prefer to have things happen as they naturally do, such as the mousse refusing to leave the mold, the potatoes sticking to the skillet, the apple charlotte slowly collapsing. One of the secrets of cooking is to learn to correct something if you can, and bear with it if you cannot. Julia Child
The art of bread making can become a consuming hobby, and no matter how often and how many kinds of bread one has made, there always seems to be something new to learn. Julia Child
We are so bemused by our own petard, that we are unable to look at things objectively. Julia Child
In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. Julia Child
Well, all I know is this nothing you ever learn is really wasted, and will sometime be used. Julia Child
I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. If you follow the rules, you can do pretty well. Julia Child
Good french cooking cannot be produced by a zombie cook. Julia Child
