Food Quotes

"When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food"

"Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness"

"Never order food in excess of your body weight"

"I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table"

"Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar"

"Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry"

"So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it"

"If food were free, why work?"

"For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable"

"Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds"

"It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top"

"We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted"

"If I could only have one type of food with me, I would bring soy sauce. The reason being that if I have soy sauce, I can flavor a lot of things"

"I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past"

"I normally don't eat junk food"

"I don't like to waste anything. Any food left over from the night before is always eaten the next day"

"As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesn't matter if it's Chinese, Japanese, anything"

"Whether one is rich or poor, educated or illiterate, religious or nonbelieving, man or woman, black, white, or brown, we are all the same. Physically, emotionally, and mentally, we are all equal. We all share basic needs for food, shelter, safety, and love. We all aspire to happiness and we all shun suffering. Each of us has hopes, worries, fears, and dreams. Each of us wants the best for our family and loved ones. We all experience pain when we suffer loss and joy when we achieve what we seek. On this fundamental level, religion, ethnicity, culture, and language make no difference"

"In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect"

"Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me"

"Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret"

"Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food"

"What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food"

"Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food"

"The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose"

"I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink"

"It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought"

"But my answer to that question would have to be, aside from the obvious, which is the people and the relationships that you garner over a long period of time but the catering. The catering. They're the best. So it's the food"

"First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that"

"Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise"

"We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare"

"Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate"

"I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it"

"The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy"

"I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer"

"The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food"

"In our short walks we passed the kitchen where food was prepared for the nurses and doctors. There we got glimpses of melons and grapes and all kinds of fruits, beautiful white bread and nice meats, and the hungry feeling would be increased tenfold"

"If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?"

"Congress is headed in the wrong direction with this bill which removes any and all incentives from the food industry to improve their products for children"

"Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite"