Top 35 Sandra Lee Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Life can turn on a dime.”

— Sandra Lee

2. “How do I cope with stress? I clean and organize.”

— Sandra Lee

3. “You don’t need to be born with a silver spoon to reach for the brass ring.”

— Sandra Lee

4. “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.”

— Sandra Lee

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

— Sandra Lee

6. “I’m the only girl on The Food Network who grills – I have two bestselling grilling books. I try to really focus on what men and women can do outside together out on the grill. I think it’s really fun to have men and women out there together, having fun, working and enjoying themselves.”

— Sandra Lee

7. “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?”

— Sandra Lee

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

— Sandra Lee

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

— Sandra Lee

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

— Sandra Lee

11. “When I’m really stressed out, I go to church. I light candles and sit and pray. And I’ll ask myself, What’s the lesson? Why am I going through this? There’s got to be a reason I’m here. What am I supposed to learn?”

— Sandra Lee

12. “My years of living the jet-set life were fun, but they weren’t fulfilling. The perks and benefits were lovely, but all of the fabulous furs, fancy jewelry and fun fetes simply weren’t enough to fill my soul.”

— Sandra Lee

13. “If you’ve attended the Cordon Bleu, you would know that no woman is supposed to be a chef – only men.”

— Sandra Lee

14. “Give yourself permission to get the most out of your life. If you’re spending all your time scrubbing corners with a toothbrush, you’re kind of missing the point. Taking shortcuts doesn’t mean shortcutting the end result.”

— Sandra Lee

15. “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?”

— Sandra Lee

16. “I think women today are so overwhelmed and overtaxed.”

— Sandra Lee

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

— Sandra Lee

18. “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.”

— Sandra Lee

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

— Sandra Lee

20. “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.”

— Sandra Lee

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

— Sandra Lee

22. “I always buy the smaller turkeys. On the pre-baste put pats of butter on the meat under the skin, put the skin back on, put a bunch of seasoning on the top, call it a day, put it in the oven. With a 10 – 12 pound turkey you are done in a couple of hours.”

— Sandra Lee

23. “I had to be frugal, thoughtful, resourceful. I didn’t have anyone to tell me, ‘You can’t.’ When you’re young, you think you can do anything, and that was really a gift. That’s why I can never understand someone telling me ‘no’ today. ‘No’ just isn’t an option.”

— Sandra Lee

24. “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.”

— Sandra Lee

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

— Sandra Lee

26. “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.”

— Sandra Lee

27. “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.”

— Sandra Lee

28. “My most cherished possessions are my grandma’s letters and my vintage Martha Washington cookbook.”

— Sandra Lee

29. “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.”

— Sandra Lee

30. “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.”

— Sandra Lee

31. “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.”

— Sandra Lee

32. “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.”

— Sandra Lee

33. “I’m an activist for gay marriage equality and children’s rights. I’m the face of Share Our Strength.”

— Sandra Lee

34. “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.”

— Sandra Lee

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

— Sandra Lee

36. “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.”

— Sandra Lee

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

— Sandra Lee