Savor the Flavor: Inspiring Quotes About Food

"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"What is food to one man is bitter poison to others"

Lucretius, Poet

"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small"

Woody Allen, Director

"I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food"

W. C. Fields, Comedian

"I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead"

Woody Allen, Director

"Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down"

Ken Hill, Playwright

"Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums"

Peter De Vries, Novelist

"If music be the food of love, play on"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage"

Woody Allen, Director

"If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart"

Edmund Wilson, Critic

"Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"More die in the United States of too much food than of too little"

John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

"My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food"

David Byrne, Musician

"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?"

Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman

"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"

Brendan Behan, Dramatist

"Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent upon the defence of their country, and on the means of plunder, are wholly employed in the care of their horses and furniture"

Giraldus Cambrensis, Clergyman

"We're taking up some science experiments, some crystal growth things, we have a refrigerator that carries up some samples, new samples that go into the station, we bring the old ones home; we have a lot of clothing, we have a lot of food-U.S. and Russian food"

Linda M. Godwin, Astronaut

"I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet"

Joely Fisher, Actress

"At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind"

Michael Pollan, Educator

"High-quality food is better for your health"

Michael Pollan, Educator

"Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated"

David Ricardo, Economist

"I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient"

Ornette Coleman, Musician

"No matter where I've been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy"

Carmen Electra, Actress

"I think it's important that, as a matter of course, the brain and spinal column were removed from this cow, and that would be the material that would cause concern in terms of human health. And therefore we're confident in the safety of the food supply"

Ann Veneman, Public Servant

"The automatic stabilizer is unemployment insurance, food stamps, additional coverage of Medicaid"

Franklin Raines, Businessman

"Islands are known to differ in the food supply available to ground finches, mainly seeds"

Peter R. Grant, Scientist

"I recycle. I have a house in the south of France and I have a small garden. My name is Dujardin - 'from the garden.' I grow carrots, peppers, strawberries, green beans, and things for salads, but there are lots of wild boars all around and they steal the food"

Jean Dujardin, Actor

"But once in a while you might see me at In and Out Burger; they make the best fast food hamburgers around"

Thomas Keller, Celebrity

"The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you're a farmer and you're growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm"

Jeremy Rifkin, Economist

"Food is not just fuel, it's information. It talks to your DNA and tells it what to do"

Jamie Oliver, Chef

"The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body"

Pat Buchanan, Journalist

"Well, sometimes if I go out to dinner with my family, people will come up to me and put their hand across my plate for me to shake, sometimes when I have a bite of food in my mouth. I find this a bit disturbing"

Abdul Qadeer Khan, Scientist

"Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day"

Ted Allen, Entertainer

"I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table"

Paul Auster, Author

"I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values"

Al Sharpton, Politician

"I never found either this or the Northern Shrike return to such prey for food. I have seen them alight on the same thorn bush afterwards, but never made any use of this kind of food"

John Bachman, Clergyman

"The food was interesting. My background is Russian, so cheese and potatoes are my love. There was plenty of that. And fried cheese! It is really, really, really good. And really, really, really bad for you. It's like an artery on a plate"

Michelle Trachtenberg, Actress

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