Cookie

"We need what we need. Judging ourselves doesn’t change it. Sometimes a hug and a cookie right now mean more than a grand gesture at some indeterminate point in the future."

"When we think of classic American desserts, we tend to imagine apple pie and ice cream. However, the most classic American dessert of all might be the chocolate chip cookie."

"C is for cookie, that's good enough for me"

"There is no aroma quite so inviting as that of cookies baking, whether ginger or chocolate or caramel. And there is no snack quite so satisfying as two or three fresh-from-the-oven cookies with a cool glass of milk. Nor is there a gift quite so welcome as a lovingly wrapped package from home, brimming with cookies."

"Say "cookie?" to a small child (or a middle-aged man for that matter) and for your efforts you will receive (a) an instant sigh of pleasure followed by (b) an outstretched palm. A petition I have learned over the years: to reward at once with something sweet and crunchy or take the consequences. For nothing in the culinary lexicon with the exception of vanilla ice cream elicits such an immediate response or such an audible demand as a cookie. Whether the question is posed in English, French, Greek, German, or Swahili!"

"Here, take a cookie. I promise, by the time you're done eating it, you'll feel right as rain."

"And that's the way the cookie crumbles. [When concluding a newscast reporting piece]"

"Money can't buy you love, but it can get you some really good chocolate ginger biscuits."

""Kids and cookies are inseparable," my Granny Rom used to say. Like my mom, who often repeated that phrase, I certainly agree. Based on a lifetime of baking cookies—not to mention eating cookies—I would also like to add that cookies bring out the kid in all of us."