Paula Deen
I loved my own Grandparents with all my heart. I learned important lessons from them about how to treat people, how to cook and how to work.....they showered us kids with love and left the parenting to Momma and Daddy. That's the beauty of being a grandparent - the hard work belongs to someone else. I guess I never really understood the depth of their love for me until I became a grandmother myself... it is unlike any other relationship.Collection: Hard Work
Life is too short to wonder where you hid your waffle maker.Collection: Life Is Too Short
I think no matter what the occasion may be, you can never go wrong by showing up at the dinner table with a hot plate of fried chicken.Collection: Thinking
Bein' rich is having leftovers. Good leftovers make yo' tongue fly outta yo' mouth and smack yo' brains out.Collection: Brain
Don't ever give up. You can't let discouragement get you down. You can always find negative people that will try to discourage you from your goals. You can't be discouraged, and you can't let the word "no" stop you.Collection: Giving Up
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.Collection: Thinking
Everyday you wake up on the right side of the dirt is a good one.Collection: Everyday
You can have diabetes and have a piece of cake. You cannot have diabetes and eat a whole cake.Collection: Cake
I've got two vices: cigarettes and taters.Collection: Two
I feel like 'embattled' or 'disgraced' will always follow my name. It's like that black football player who recently came out.Collection: Football
There's nothing better than being able to give your children wings so they can soar and fly in the direction they want to go in.Collection: Children
You can't make stuffing with sweet cornbread.Collection: Sweet
We are our brothers keeper. Its going to be up to all of us.Collection: Brother
You never know who you will meet along life's journey. You have to be open to risks, but calculated risks, open to winning.Collection: Winning
There's so much going on. I almost never have a moment.Collection: Moments
Would I have fired me? Knowing me? No.Collection: Knowing
I can't, myself, determine what offends another person.Collection: Determine
It wasnt until I was a sophomore in high school that I asked Mama if I could come into the kitchen and have her teach me how to cook something. Well, I wasnt in there five minutes before she said, OK, honey, you have to go now. I made her so nervous she was about ready to throw up. So I really didnt have an interest in being in the kitchen until after I was married, when I was 18. It didnt take me long to realize that Mama was not going to show up at my house every day and cook.Collection: School
I am proof that the American dream still exists.Collection: Dream
There's not one food that causes diabetes.What causes Type II diabetes is being overweight... I've just come to grips, over the past four or five months, with my diabetes.Collection: Past
I believe that everyone should be treated equal, that's the way I was raised and that's the way I live my life.Collection: Believe
Chicken breast is the driest, [most] tasteless part of the chicken as far as I'm concerned.Collection: Chickens
Working with family is probably one of the hardest things in business, but it can also be one of the most rewarding. You have to be very, very careful that you don't overstep the boundaries that you wouldn't with anyone else. Sometimes, we think that the unconditional love they have for us makes overstepping boundaries alright. It's really not. You have to work harder to not damage the family dynamic. That lasts forever.Collection: Hard Work
I am proud to be a Southerner.Collection: Proud
If you have a dream, FOLLOW IT.Collection: Dream
I'm more spiritual than I am religious. I don't go to church; I go to the beach.Collection: Spiritual
Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener.Collection: Inspirational
Love is like smiling, it never fades and is contagious.Collection: Romantic
I'm so thankful. God has been so good and generous.Collection: Has Beens
If there's anyone out there that has never said something that they wish they could take back -- if you're out there, please pick up that stone and throw it so hard at my head that it kills me. Please. I want to meet you...I is what I is, and I'm not changing.Collection: Wish
It’s just what they are — they’re jokes…most jokes are about Jewish people, rednecks, black folks…I can’t determine what offends another person.Collection: Redneck