Mint Juleps Quotes

• The reason I wanted to become an organ player was because I heard Ray Charles play on Quincy Jones' arrangement of "One Mint Julep." I heard that sound, and it just struck me. I thought that's what I want to do with my life. That's the sound I want to try to make.

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  Booker T. Jones

  Player   Trying   Rays  

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you'd asked me at 30 where I'd be during the Masters when I was 46, I'd have pictured myself on a boat fishing, smoking a cigar, drinking a mint julep and watching it on television.

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  Jack Nicklaus

  Drinking   Golf   Fishing  

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• ....that the mounds of ices, and the bowls of mint-julep and sherry cobbler they make in these latitudes, are refreshments never to be thought of afterwards, in summer, by those who would preserve contented minds.

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  Charles Dickens

  Summer   Ice   Mind  

  Charles Dickens (1842). “American Notes for General Circulation”, p.170

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• The irony is that Iraq actually has one of the richest and most sophisticated cuisines in the world. So many classic American or European foods - ceviche, albondigas, even the mint julep - have roots in Iraqi cuisine, which was a crossroads of Persian and Arab and Turkic traditions. The oldest written recipes in the world are from Iraq!

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  Annia Ciezadlo

  Roots   Iraq   Recipes  

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Perhaps the most vivid recollection of my youth is that of the local wheelmen, led by my father, stopping at our home to eat pone, sip mint juleps, and flog the field hands. This more than anything cultivated my life-long aversion to bicycles.

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  Tennessee Williams

  Father   Home   Cycling  

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• I am a collector of many things, but I particularly love the sterling silver mint julep cups, each engraved with the titles of the Broadway shows in which I appeared.

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  Bryan Batt

  Titles   Broadway   Cups  

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