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Cookie Quotes to Inspire You as You Bake and Eat Cookies

Fun and inspiration with these cookie quotes specially selected for you by The Elf.

Cookie Quotes: In Praise of Cookies

Cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.
Sandra Lee, celebrity cooking show host

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
Barbara Jordan, American politician and civil rights leader

Sometimes me think, “What is Friend?” Then me say, “Friend is someone to share the last cookie with.”
The Cookie Monster, Muppet on educational TV show Sesame Street

Life is short. Eat cookies for breakfast.
Anonymous

In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
Salmon Rushdie, British-Indian novelist

I am a picky eater. By that I mean, I love to pick the raisins out of oatmeal raisin cookies, the chips out of chocolate chip cookies, the white side off of black and white cookies, and the vanilla center out of Oreos.
Dylan Lauren, owner of New York City's Dylan's Candy Bar, which claims to be the "largest candy store in the world."

Today me will live in the moment, unless it is unpleasant. In which case me will eat a cookie.
The Cookie Monster, Muppet on educational TV show Sesame Street

On more than one occasion, the camera has cut to me after a break as I'm still trying to swallow the last bite of cookie. Those of you who have thought to yourselves, 'That guy talks like he has marbles in his mouth,' should know that they are not marbles, but oatmeal cookies.
Lester Holt, American news journalist, NBC anchorman

I like cookies, any cookie you put in front of me - animal cookies, sugar cookies, anything crunchy.
Maria Shriver, American journalist and author; former First Lady of California

My grannies would both bake things like shortbreads and cookies. I think whenever I smell those kinds of things it really takes me back to my childhood.
Curtis Stone, Australian celebrity chef

Just be willing to pay the price. If you know you want to eat more cake or more cookies, be willing to work out a little bit more.
Herschel Walker, Heisman trophy winner, retired pro football player

Cookie Quotes: In Praise of Baking Cookies

I absolutely love making chocolate chip cookies. I mean, it's fun. It's exciting. Beyond the fact that I love making them, I love eating them.
Debbi Fields, Founder, Mrs. Fields Bakeries

I think baking cookies is equal to Queen Victoria running an empire. There's no difference in how seriously you take the job, how seriously you approach your whole life.
Martha Stewart, American businesswoman and television personality

Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen.
Sandra Lee, celebrity cooking show host

Baking happens with ingredients that last for months and come to life inside a warm oven. Baking is slow and leisurely.
Regina Brett, best-selling author and newspaper columnist

Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.
Yiddish Proverb

I think cookies are sort of the unsung sweet, you know? They're incredibly popular. But everybody thinks of cakes and pies and fancier desserts before they think cookies. A plate of cookies is a great way to end dinner and really nice to share at the holidays.
Bobby Flay, American celebrity chef

Baking makes me focus … I find it calming and rewarding because, in fairness, it is sort of magic - you start off with all this disparate stuff, such as butter and eggs, and what you end up with is so totally different. And also delicious.
Marian Keyes, Irish novelist and nonfiction writer

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