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Breakfast Cereal Quotes

An ordinary morning staple used in some unexpected ways.

These breakfast cereal quotes start with the admission that the subject itself is usually pretty Boring, the kind of small talk people fall into by accident. From there they stretch further than expected, into shipping history and personal identity.

Last Updated on Aug 03, 2026

High Office
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Nov 07, 2020

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

Quotes by Adlai Stevenson I

Imagination
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Nov 07, 2020

Who cares about the men who steered your breakfast cereal through winter storms? How ironic that the more ships have grown in size and consequence, the less space they take up in our imagination.

Quotes by Rose George

People
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Nov 07, 2020

Sometimes you actually get caught in the web of things where people are talking about... what kind of breakfast cereal you like.

Quotes by Josh Homme

Breakfast
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Nov 07, 2020

Really the topic of breakfast cereal is generally a very boring one.

Quotes by Josh Homme

Myself
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Nov 07, 2020

It was natural to see the struggle for dignity for black people in America as a sister struggle of the Jewish struggle. So growing up, it was always a part of my breakfast cereal to think of myself as someone who was part of a larger struggle.

Quotes by Eugene Jarecki

Loved
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Nov 07, 2020

Every film is a remake of a previous film, or a remake of a television series that everyone loved in the 1960s, or a remake of a television series that everyone hated in the 1960s. Or it's a theme park ride; it will soon come to breakfast cereal mascots.

Quotes by Alan Moore

One quote uses breakfast cereal as shorthand for an early, everyday part of forming a sense of self growing up. Another nods to the overlooked people behind getting Cereal through winter storms, a detail most never consider.

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