Breakfast Cereal Quotes:

Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

- Roald Dahl

topic: Food, Cereal, Shaving, Pencil Sharpeners, Cheap Food

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

topic: Thinking, Cereal, Ideas, Democratic Process, Presidents Day

Cereal eating is almost a marker for a healthy lifestyle. It sets you up for the day, so you don't overeat.

- Bruce Barton

topic: Cereal, Healthy, Eating, Markers, Overeating

Breakfast cereals that come in the same colors as polyester leisure suits make oversleeping a virtue.

- Fran Lebowitz

topic: Cereal, Color, Breakfast, Breakfast Cereal

The Breakfast of Champions isn't cereal, it's the competition!

- David Lee Roth

topic: Cereal, Competition, Champion, Breakfast Of Champions, Breakfast Cereal

When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.

- Dan O'Brien

topic: Cereal, Hype, Breakfast, Breakfast Cereal

Sometimes you actually get caught in the web of things where people are talking about... what kind of breakfast cereal you like.

- Joshua Homme

topic: Cereal, Talking, People, Breakfast Cereal

I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.

- Bill Watterson

source: "The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1990.

topic: Cereal, Purple, Milk, Breakfast Cereal

Pay attention; don't let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

- Jerry Seinfeld

source: "Oprah Talks to Jerry Seinfeld". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. November, 2007.

topic: Falling In Love, Cereal, Attention, Breakfast Cereal

Right now, Im very healthy. I have no vices left. Except sugary breakfast cereal. And absinthe, of course.

- Johnny Galecki

topic: Cereal, Healthy, Vices, Absinthe, Breakfast Cereal

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

- Lewis Carroll

source: Through the Looking-Glass ch. 5 (1872)

topic: Ignorance, Six, Breakfast, Impossible Dream, Favourite Book

Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.

- Bill James

topic: Baseball, Cereal, People, Breakfast Cereal

You can't say your favorite kind of cake is birthday cake, that's like saying your favorite kind of cereal is breakfast cereal.

- Aziz Ansari

source: "Fictional character: Tom Haverford". "Parks and Recreation" (TV Series), Episode: "Hunting Trip", www.imdb.com. 2009–2015.

topic: Cake, Cereal, Breakfast, Birthday Cake, Your Favorite

Don't eat breakfast cereals that change the color of your milk.

- Michael Pollan

topic: Cereal, Color, Breakfast, Breakfast Cereal

If you eat the same cereal every day it's gonna get old. And if I had thought about snowboarding every day, I would have quit a long time ago.

- Shaun White

topic: Cereal, Snowboarding, Long, Breakfast Cereal

I love cereal. I eat several bowls a day, mostly a few late at night.

- Paul Dano

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Night, Cereal, Breakfast Cereal

Listen, three eyes," he said, "don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.

- Douglas Adams

source: Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.184, Pan Macmillan

topic: Eye, Cereal, Trying, Zaphod Beeblebrox, Breakfast Cereal

Every film is a remake of a previous film, or a remake of a television series that everyone loved in the 1960s, or a remake of a television series that everyone hated in the 1960s. Or it's a theme park ride; it will soon come to breakfast cereal mascots.

- Alan Moore

source: "Alan Moore: why I turned my back on Hollywood". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2012.

topic: Cereal, Television, Breakfast, Theme Parks, Breakfast Cereal

It was natural to see the struggle for dignity for black people in America as a sister struggle of the Jewish struggle. So growing up, it was always a part of my breakfast cereal to think of myself as someone who was part of a larger struggle.

- Eugene Jarecki

source: "Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 9, 2012.

topic: Growing Up, Struggle, Thinking, Breakfast Cereal

To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.

- Philip Roth

source: FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Jul 29, 2016

topic: Cereal, Names, Ivory, Brand Names, Rice Krispies

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

- Erma Bombeck

topic: Family, Food, Cereal, Funny Family, Family Planning

I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.

- Judy Blume

topic: Morning, Children, Thinking, Breakfast Cereal

I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes.

- Judy Holliday

topic: Book, Cereal, Hands, Toothpaste, Breakfast Cereal

Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are printed on the outside of boxes of breakfast cereals. On anything.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Reading, Book, Fall, Cookery Books, Cookery

Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries

- Norman Borlaug

topic: Country, Rain, Cereal, Green Revolution, Breakfast Cereal

Eric Schmidt looks innocent enough, with his watercolor blue eyes and his tiny office full of toys and his Google campus stocked with volleyball courts and unlocked bikes and wheat-grass shots and cereal dispensers and Haribo Gummi Bears and heated toilet seats and herb gardens and parking lots with cords hanging to plug in electric cars.

- Maureen Dowd

topic: Volleyball, Eye, Garden, Parking Lot, Watercolors

I still battle with my deeply boring diet of, essentially, yogurt and breakfast cereal and granola bars. I hate dieting. I hate having to do it to be the 'right' size. I'm hungry all the time. I think I'm a slender person, but the industry apparently doesn't. All actresses are hungry all the time, I think.

- Julianne Moore

topic: Hate, Thinking, Cereal, Granola, Granola Bars

Really, the moment you have any idea, the second thought that enters your mind after the original idea is, "What is this? Is it a book, is it a movie, is it a this, is it a that, is it a short story, is it a breakfast cereal?" Really, from that moment, your decision about what kind of thing it is then determines how it develops.

- Douglas Adams

source: "Douglas Adams" by Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. January 28, 1998.

topic: Book, Cereal, Ideas, Breakfast Cereal

A dozen swimming events have already been completed in the Olympic competition. I wonder where they got the name 'Speedo.' It doesn't sound like a bathing suit, it sounds like a breakfast cereal for meth addicts.

- Craig Ferguson

topic: Funny, Swimming, Names, Speedos, London Olympics

That’s Narmer with the spoon,” I guessed. “Angry because the other bloke stole his breakfast cereal?

- Rick Riordan

source: Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

topic: Cereal, Spoons, Breakfast, Breakfast Cereal

The days of my youth I remember as nearly always in need of explanation, and not as much fun as advertised in the promotions for board games and breakfast cereal.

- Lewis H. Lapham

topic: Fun, Cereal, Games, Board Games, Breakfast Cereal

Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant.

- Alexandra Ripley

topic: Book, Cereal, Deodorant, Breakfast Cereal

It seems that every movie is a remake of something that was better when it was first released in a foreign language, as a 1960s TV show, or even as a comic book. Now you’ve got theme park rides as the source material of movies. The only things left are breakfast cereal mascots. In our lifetime, we will see Johnny Depp playing Captain Crunch.

- Alan Moore

source: "Alan Moore On Watchmen’s “Toxic Cloud” And Creativity V. Big Business". Interview with Susan Karlin, www.fastcompany.com. February 14, 2012.

topic: Book, Cereal, Tv Shows, Crunch, Theme Parks

That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.

- Nick Hornby

topic: Mother, Cereal, Laughing, Breakfast Cereal

I don't eat cereal actually... Frosted Flakes... that's as close as I can get.

- Johnny Thunders

topic: Cereal, Flakes, Breakfast Cereal

Rhymes with push-koo; I always say it sounds like a breakfast cereal.

- Eliza Dushku

source: "She's a Good Girl at Heart". Detroit Free Press,

topic: Cereal, Sound, Breakfast, Breakfast Cereal