Sandra Lee Quotes

Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.

You don't need to be born with a silver spoon to reach for the brass ring

Sure, you can mix the flour, baking soda, salt, shortening, and the whole nine yards, but why wouldn't you just pull out a box of Bisquick?

I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles, which are expensive.

Instead of doing cinnamon, nutmeg, and all those baking spices I'll have one spice that's for sweets, and that's pumpkin pie spice.

One of the things I do in my cookbooks is I will do a conversion from outdoor to indoor grilling so you can do it year-round.

As a kid, I thought John Denver was the perfect Prince Charming.

Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen. It's fun whether it's baking bread or cookies. With baking, you have to be exact when it comes to ingredients.

Seventy percent store-bought, ready-made plus 30 percent fresh allows you to take 100 percent of the credit.

Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen.

It's really easy to figure out why I love what I love, the holidays and food. I know the difference between having them and not having them.

How do I cope with stress? I clean and organize.

If we want to truly live, at some point, we find the dark facts of psychic life demand our full attention.

I can certainly be part of the socialite group and walk those carpets every day, but I choose not to because I prefer to be grounded. You can't be at home and on the red carpet.

Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don't ever really get stressed out about the food.

I don't think there are any footsteps to be walked in. No one else has taken things that you can buy at the grocery store and put them together. I hope that I have a career as long as Julia Child.

My most cherished possessions are my grandma's letters and my vintage Martha Washington cookbook.

The issue I have always felt most strongly about is hunger in America, in particular the children.

I think women today are so overwhelmed and overtaxed.

My brand is a demography-breaker. It speaks to all homemakers and women from all walks of life and all across society.

Lack of sleep makes me less productive. I need a good seven or eight hours a night.

Yes, I love white, and I'd wear it all the time if I could. Some people think I have an issue with cleanliness, but to me it's just so pretty.

I'm not sure that some of the food purists are in touch with what really goes on in American households.

I like to create what I call 'tablescapes.' It's so much more fun when you organize your table around a theme, don't you think?

If you've attended the Cordon Bleu, you would know that no woman is supposed to be a chef - only men.

I didn’t even cry, I was stunned. You know, and that’s just how fast life turns. It turns on a dime.

When I came to the Food Network, I didn't want to do a cooking show. I told Kathleen Finch for nine months I didn't want to do a cooking show, I wanted to do a home-and-garden show.

Different types of chicken come at different price points. Filets are going to be more expensive. If it's bone-in and skin-on it's going to be less expensive.

Why I have had such a huge career and why I have sold over four million books, is that people can do what I share with them to do.

My audience knows me, and I wear beautiful clothes as a badge of honor. They remember where I came from.

....I came to consider betrayal a moral violation of another's humanity—akin to torture.

Few things are as painful as the unfulfilled desire to be near to another you love.