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Grocery shopping," Kira's gaze raked over him. "Well, honey, one thing about it, I don't think you have to worry about buying beef while you're out. It looks like you have plenty in residence as it is. -- Lora Leigh
The Grocery Manufacturers Association is behind the bills which have been trying to pre-empt states' labeling laws in the Senate. And they have a lot of money and power in Washington. So it's a classic David versus Goliath story, where corporate lobbying outweighs consumers' rights. -- Zoe Lister-Jones
I like being able to go grocery shopping and not feel that I'm fighting a thousand people. -- Roz Chast
The best way to get anybody's attention is dinner. I have good kitchen skills and good grocery shopping skills. -- Al Roker
For a while I couldn't leave the house by myself. Even if I was just grocery shopping alone, I'd get self-conscious. -- Shannen Doherty
As a child I was sometimes so hungry that I used to dream that one day I'd get locked in a grocery store. -- George Foreman
If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner. -- S. E. Hinton
I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping. -- Patricia Heaton
When you go to the grocery store, you find that the cheapest calories are the ones that are going to make you the fattest - the added sugars and fats in processed foods. -- Michael Pollan
The perfect dressing is essential to the perfect salad, and I see no reason whatsoever for using a bottled dressing, which may have been sitting on the grocery shelf for weeks, even months - even years. -- Julia Child
I like Toronto a lot, it's a good city. The only thing that really annoys me about Toronto is that you're turning Maple Leaf Gardens into a grocery store, which is absolutely nothing short of disgusting. -- Rick Wakeman
Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth! -- Anne Tyler
The Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store, even among unsaved friends and family members, God's people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation. -- Joyce Meyer
I'm not in the clubs; I'm a homebody. I go out when I feel I have to for work or if there's a special function. You might catch me at the grocery store, but you won't see me out and about in Atlanta. -- Keith Sweat
It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer. -- Jack White
The things that make me happiest in the whole world are going on the occasional picnic, either with my children or with my partner; big family gatherings; and being able to go to the grocery store - if I can get those things in, I'm doing good. -- Kate Winslet
Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big trouble if you're borrowing more than you can ever afford to pay back. Delaying the pain for future generations is suicidal. We've got to start getting the deficit down right now, not next year. -- Simon Cowell
Each time you go to the grocery store with your kids, it is a potential learning opportunity. In order not to overemphasize materialism, focus on other things to do with money. In 'Beyond the Lemonade Stand,' I try to emphasize the importance of saving money, and of using it to help other people. -- Bill Rancic
My father worked in the Post Office. A lot of double shifts. All his friends were in the same situation - truck drivers, taxi cab drivers, grocery clerks. Blue collar guys punching the clock and working long, hard hours. The thought that sustained them was the one at the center of the American dream. -- Gary David Goldberg
What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros. -- Jack Welch
I've been reading comics since I was four. I used to get them when I would go grocery shopping with my mom. I remember getting the digest versions of old DC comics. The one that I remember reading first was Paul Levitz' 'Justice Society of America' stuff that he was doing in the '70s. -- Jeff Lemire
Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets. -- J. Courtney Sullivan
Today, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chicken that they serve for dinner; instead they hunt and gather in the grocery store. They go through catalogs or department stores to buy clothes instead of shearing sheep, carding wool, and weaving cloth for skirts and coats and blankets. -- Helen Fisher
It's about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner... I live my life at these two extremes. I'm either a full-time stay-at-home mom or a full-time actress. -- Jennifer Garner
There are times, like after a long day of work, when the thought of an easy drive-through is enticing. But then I remember how crappy I felt when I ate fast food in the past, and it inspires me to head to the grocery store or my local farmer's market and whip up an easy but healthier option. -- Alison Sweeney
Every dollar of SNAP benefits generates $1.84 in the economy in terms of economic activity. If people are able to buy a little more in the grocery store, someone has to stock it, package it, shelve it, process it, ship it. All of those are jobs. It's the most direct stimulus you can get in the economy during these tough times. -- Tom Vilsack
Going to grocery stores is almost my favorite thing to do to calm myself down. There's something about just walking aisle after aisle making mundane choices. 'Do I want that? No, I want the one that has the low sodium.' And that feels like a good exercise to be doing when there isn't anything to be doing. It's like a kick-starter in some way. -- Shane Carruth
It's a great battle, and it really is a battle, and there are people from all walks of life, you know, never judge anybody at the table: A man can be the greatest poker player and he might know all the numbers, but he might get beaten by a really savvy kid who works in a grocery store; and that's what's so great about this game. -- James Woods
My mom does all the grocery shopping. -- Scott Wolf
Don't send a man to the grocery store. -- Jeanne Robertson
I'm too sexy for a grocery store. John Carter Quinn -- Leigh James
Las Vegas makes Reno seem like your friendly neighborhood grocery store. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I'm trying to quit huffing epoxy glue out of grocery bags. -- Davy Rothbart
I like my freedom. I like to do my own grocery shopping. -- Joni Mitchell
I don't like meat from the grocery store, it makes me nervous -- Jase Robertson
You've got bad eating habits if you use a grocery cart in 7-Eleven. -- Dennis Miller
Do you work at the grocery store? Then why are you checking me out? -- Lisi Harrison
But come on, like she hadn't seen every aisle in his grocery store already? -- J.R. Ward
Makes no matter if I'm performing in a grocery store, you're always gonna get 150%. -- Eddie Griffin
My town was even smaller. Only six hundred people. We didn't have a grocery store. -- PJ Harvey
My mom is the recycling Nazi, and I always bring a bag to the grocery store. -- Jane Levy
You know you are in love when the two of you can go grocery shopping together. -- Woody Harrelson
Some people meet people in the grocery store, but I get my tomatoes and I'm out. -- Ryan Seacrest
I'm no sexual siren. I see prettier girls than me in the grocery store every day. -- Markie Post
The Lord turned water into wine. All I'm suggesting is a trip to the grocery store. -- Jodi Picoult
The total number of Dirichlet's publications is not large: jewels are not weighed on a grocery scale. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss
Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store. -- Elizabeth Moon
I like being able to go grocery shopping and not feel that Im fighting a thousand people. -- Roz Chast
Even though I am Chairman of Dole Food Company, I do most of my own grocery shopping. -- David H. Murdock
A lot of people in line at the grocery store think that they know me, but they don't. -- Zosia Mamet
Early every morning an old woman goes to the market to curse a grocery clerk, who curses back. -- Mason Cooley
If entertainment ran grocery stores, we'd NEVER get oil cured olives or blue cheese, it would be JUST Coke. -- Penn Jillette
West Hollywood is predominantly gay, so every man that came into the grocery store was shopping for his boyfriend. -- Jeri Ryan
Our grocery store now has self-checkout, for your convenience. It's like getting punched in the throat, for your comfort. -- Dana Gould
I grew up with this kind of grocery store that caters to the poor. They serve you the worst food -- Sandra Cisneros
Ninety percent of the day is working out. Sometimes I get my nails done and go to the grocery store. -- Lindsey Vonn
Enoki mushrooms, a tasty variety commonly sold in grocery stores, were one of the first mushrooms studied for preventing cancer. -- Paul Stamets
The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations. -- Barbara Kingsolver
I don't believe government should take over, you know, the grocery store down the street or own the means of production. -- Bernie Sanders
Don't complain about being unable to afford high-quality local food when your grocery cart is full of beer, cigarettes, and People magazine. -- Joel Salatin
I have been known to go to the grocery store and just buy pepperoni. There's just something fantastic about salty, fatty meats. -- Rachel Nichols
All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say? -- Steven Saylor
You know, surprisingly, they don't sell a lot of brains in the local 24-hour grocery store around the corner from my house. -- Rusty Fischer
Forgive the person who badly hurt you long ago and also the stranger who stepped on your toe in the grocery store. -- Joyce Meyer
I tell everyone that I have 25,000 assistant coaches. If I want to know something, I just go to the grocery store.' -- Don Meyer
I was a mechanic at a go-cart place, a deejay at a roller rink, a telemarketer in New York, a grocery bagger. -- Michael Rosenbaum
If commodity prices are no longer going up then food prices in the grocery store will no longer go up, at some point. -- Matt Martin
It's typical for people living in nonurban areas to drive 100 miles to go to work, to the grocery store or to the doctor. -- Cynthia Lummis
People ask me how I stay thin, and I'm like, 'When you go to the grocery store, buy more bananas than cookies.' -- Elizabeth Banks
I've been going to the same grocery store for 13 years, and all of a sudden one day everybody was like, 'Oh, my God... -- Megan Mullally
I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible. -- Connie Willis
Unshaven dudes in hoodies and ski caps look so hip and cool, until they too close to a grocery cart full of dented cans... -- Dana Gould
I've managed to do movies and still keep a lifestyle where I can go to ballgames, go to a grocery store like everybody else. -- Chris Evans
I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch. -- Zooey Deschanel
There's a lot of American kids think their food comes from the grocery store and the concept of seasonality has no meaning to them whatsoever. -- Peter Senge
Theres a lot of American kids think their food comes from the grocery store and the concept of seasonality has no meaning to them whatsoever. -- Peter Senge
I was doing the family grocery shopping accompanied by two children, an event I hope to see included in the Olympics in the near future. -- Anna Quindlen
Don't skimp on the ice. Bags from the grocery store melt so fast and water down your drinks. I prefer beautiful, big squares for my cocktails. -- Jose Andres Puerta
Life is like waiting in line at the grocery store. You wait, you slowly move forward, you pay the price, then you exit unsatisfied and broke. -- Erin McCarthy
The world is progressing and resources are becoming more abundant. I'd rather go into a grocery store today than a king's banquet a hundred years ago. -- Bill Gates
The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Clothing sales plummet, rent delinquencies mount and even grocery sales shrink as gamblers, having tapped out their entertainment budgets, dip into dollars set aside for necessities -- John Warren Kindt
I got the name Slash because I used to work in a grocery store and I was in charge of reducing prices for really big sales. -- Slash
I have a very normal life. I go to the grocery store, I go to Target. I don't have an assistant, I don't have an entourage. -- Angela Kinsey
You know, I lose patience really easily; I'd rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody's business. -- Gail Simmons
I get off on a man with strong moral fiber. The closest Barrons ever gets to fiber is walking down the cereal aisle at the grocery store. -- Karen Marie Moning
Imagine walking into a grocery there is a jar sitting there with a lid on it saying it's not carbon. That is ridiculous. It's an empty jar. -- William McDonough
One day I was in the grocery store, and I saw raspberries, and I was like, 'Oh, I can make a lip stain out of that.' -- Bethany Mota
The masses are brainwashed to the point that they believe if an American grocery store or restaurant offers a particular food, it must be good and safe. -- Andreas Moritz
Gambling drains the economy by taking money away from grocery stores and retail businesses and putting it in the hands of an industry that produces no product -- John Warren Kindt
If I weren't in Radiohead I'd be working at a grocery store, I'd be that creepy guy who lives in an efficiency apartment and collects salted, cured meats. -- Thom Yorke
Well, I'm pretty domestic actually. I walk my dog. I go grocery shopping. I hang out with friends. I'm pretty normal, whatever normal is, on my off time. -- James Iha
I cross country ski on conveyer belts covered with shaved ice. People trying to check out at the grocery store need to show more respect for serious athletes. -- Jarod Kintz
I can only imagine being the most famous person in the world, what that must be like when you go to the grocery store, when you go anywhere. -- Tyler Hoechlin
I don't want to be more famous than what I have right now. At least in that sense where people come up to me in the grocery store. -- Kathleen Robertson
I can still go grocery shopping and not get mobbed. But when I was in South Africa this summer, I had people asking for autographs, and that scared me. -- Evangeline Lilly
We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself! -- Paul Prudhomme
I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head. -- Patricia Heaton
I like to work when I'm not working - do something that may not be considered work, but to me it's work. Getting exercise by going to the grocery store. -- Andy Warhol
When you're out grocery shopping for your family, maybe you can put a can of cat or dog food in your cart and bring it to an animal relief center. -- Rachael Ray
I was in a grocery store. I saw a sign that said 'pet supplies.' So I did. Then I went outside and saw a sign that said, 'Compact cars. -- Steven Wright
I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list. -- Ann Patchett
Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood. -- Barbara Kingsolver
I grew up in Minnesota and everyone is so nice there. It is like Fargo. Everyone's so chipper and you make friends just grocery shopping. We kill each other with kindness. -- Seann William Scott
I grew up in Minnesota and everyone is so nice there. It is like Fargo. Everyone's so chipper and you make friends just grocery shopping. We kill each other with kindness. -- Seann William Scott
I moved to L.A. and really didn't dig living there until I found places like Koreatown and Little Tokyo. I really like hanging out in the grocery stores and restaurants. -- Patrick Stump
I would never feel comfortable doing my own makeup for a party or a big event, that's for sure. I'm really good at doing it to go to the grocery store. -- Shay Mitchell
There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace. -- Aldo Leopold
I don't think there's anything wrong with a hot dog or other convenience foods, as long as they're balanced with fresh vegetables. It's hard to ignore 95 percent of the grocery store. -- Tyler Florence
I'm not knocking the wholesale grocery business or any other, but there is a kind of romance in journalism which some people, the lucky ones, feel inside them all their lives. -- Charles Kuralt
When you sign on to be an activist in northwest Montana, people in the grocery store will avoid eye contact, particularly if they're hanging out with outspoken opponents to your views. -- Rick Bass
My dad was a produce man. He worked in grocery stores for 35 years. My mom just babysat kids and raised us. I have four sisters and one brother. I'm the baby. -- Brandon Flowers
Getting straight with your money is as complicated as a trip to the grocery store: You need a comparison shop, add and subtract, stick with a plan, and ask questions- nothing more. -- Elizabeth Warren
Go to the grocery store and buy better things. Buy quality, buy organic, buy natural, go to the farmers market. Immediately that's going to increase the quality of the food you make. -- Michael Symon
My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store. -- Maiara Walsh
I'm such a goody two-shoes, I don't even taste the fruit at the grocery store. Like oh, are these grapes good? I can't even do that. I'm that much of a rule-follower. -- Laura Benanti
It was something new that was happening everywhere. You couldn't miss it. If you needed to go to the grocery you would go to the predecessors of the big supermarkets of today. -- William Eggleston
We certainly can try to grow in love, and it is good practice, this giving what we've got, whether it is a cup of coffee or money to pay the grocery bill. -- Dorothy Day
I've gone up to a random guy in a grocery store before and said, 'Hi, I think you're cute. Are you single?' I'm not smooth. I just put it out there. -- Autumn Reeser
They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery. -- Omar Sharif

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