John Niven Quotes

Children, if they haven't been introduced to foods by the time they're 3 years old, are afraid of it, as if it would hurt them. They don't really get out of that until they're 6 or 7 - it's a safety mechanism, and you're not going to win.

By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

If your parents gave you fire to play with when you were two, you'd be standing in fire by the time you were an adult.

Growing up, I was such a picky eater. I'm finally starting to expand.

Some people handle sweets better.

I always make this joke that I know you were expecting to see the big skirts and the hoops. But that was a long time ago. Artists aren't always seen as real people. If you start out as a teenager, sometimes people want to keep you locked as that. But I'm a woman now.

I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.

Individuals possess varying predispositions to put up with differing people, ideas, and behaviors.

I grew up in a little town in east Texas where it was really not on the table to question certain things like whether you should eat meat or not.

Eating among the French certainly affected me. After a few years here, I gave up most of my selective food habits.

Some people don't have a sense of humor about certain things, and other people do.

People like our stuff, some people hate it, but that's like anything, right? Some people love donuts, some people are allergic to 'em.

I don't discriminate when it comes to melon. I'm very open-minded. I really don't mind; I can't say I like any one better than the other. You can put them all in! A little melon mix salad, and I'm just in heaven.

How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on television shows adults acting like children?

I love food, but if I find a restaurant I like in a new city, I can eat every meal there, and sometimes I do... and even sometimes the same dish.

The more I study men, the more I realize that they are nothing in the world but boys grown too big to be spankable.

It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much.

I don't think dressing has anything to do with numbers. I know people of 30 who act like they're 97, and I have a few old-bag friends who are very hip.

Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.

It takes all sorts of people to make a world.

Just another proof, of course, of what I often say - it takes all sorts to make a world.

Some people are boys longer than others.

Grown-up people can wait.

I've accrued a kind of patience, I believe, loosely like change.

When the bread basket comes to the table and I have a bite, people are like, "Oh, you eat bread?" I say, "Oh, my God, of course I eat bread. I'm human."