Food Quotes

"The ease with which barley may be substituted directly for wheat in human food and its usefulness to replace wheat milling by-products as feed in the production of the milk supply render its abundant production important"

David F. Houston, Politician

"The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food"

William Winwood Reade, Historian

"Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic"

James H. Douglas, Politician

"In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product"

Bob Ney, Politician

"One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off"

William Irwin Thompson, Philosopher

"If we as a society are willing to have a preference for organic food, the farmer can pass on the savings"

Robert Patterson

"The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it"

Mario Batali, Celebrity

"It's a funny thing about me. I don't have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry"

Alan Ladd, Actor

"Those other 10 o'clock shows that come on, all you get from them is headaches and nightmares when you go to bed! At least we give you food, know what I mean?"

Emeril Lagasse, Celebrity

"The usefulness of cow-peas and soy-beans as human food has been recognized only recently in this country"

David F. Houston, Politician

"Of course, I also gave him the ineffable pleasures of pipe smoking. And no children, because when this character was created I did not yet have the four children I later had. I must add I also gave him a certain taste for food"

Georges Simenon, Writer

"I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down - our dependence on foreign countries for food and energy. Agriculture is the backbone of our economy"

John Salazar, Politician

"My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a tornado hit it and then she'd come out with the best food. Then she'd sit at the table and she wouldn't eat!"

Edie Brickell, Musician

"If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after"

Shmuel Y. Agnon

"You have to find a balance with food in your life - you can't take out food. It can be absolutely terrifying"

Carre Otis, Model

"Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol"

Carre Otis, Model

"The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about"

Damon Wayans, Comedian

"I'm a real food know-it-all"

Arthur Schwartz, Composer

"For the most part this is a place to find down-to-earth advice on everyday cooking, eating, food shopping, cooking equipment, and nice things to put on your table"

Arthur Schwartz, Composer

"Food is our common ground, a universal experience"

James Beard, Author

"They are the video equivalent of junk food"

John J. O'Connor

"They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach"

Luigi Barzini, Journalist

"That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food"

Satish Kumar, Activist

"As it has been told to me, my Dad had some kind of deal with Dick Clark. But when we got here, that fell through. So we were out here with no job, no furniture, no food"

Danny Bonaduce, Actor

"Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else"

Doris Roberts, Actress

"I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944"

Gloria Swanson, Actress

"I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good"

Virgil Thomson, Composer

"Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop"

Vanessa Carlton, Musician

"We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it"

Ray Kroc, Businessman

"That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible"

Daryl Hannah, Actress

"The future of our nation depends on our ability to produce food and fiber to sustain the world"

Phil Bredesen, Politician

"Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty"

Alice Foote MacDougall

"Penn State is a leader in food science"

Don Sherwood, Politician

"Food is my thing, I do not smoke or drink, so food is my vice"

Kathy Griffin, Comedian

"Somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the food you eat has been touched by immigrant hands, and it is fair to say some of them are not here as they should be here. But if you didn't have these folks, you would be spending a lot more - three, four or five times more - for food, or we would have to import food and have all the food security risks"

Tom Vilsack, Politician

"I used to make my own food and ate on my own in my room"

Victoria Wood, Comedian

"On long haul flights I always drink loads and loads of water and eat light and healthy food"

Lisa Snowdon, Model

"The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill"

Bryan Miller

"Food simply isn't important to me"

Alice Paul, Activist

"Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly"

M. F. K. Fisher, Writer

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