Food Quotes

"People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food"

"Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food"

"I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook"

"We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day"

Mario Batali, Celebrity

"Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food"

Andrew Weil, Scientist

"I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can"

Eric Allman, Scientist

"The thing about being in America is when you are driving with the sun on your back, there's hip hop. I never used to be into hip hop, but there's hip hop in the food, soul food, there's hip hop in the cars"

Vanessa Brown, Actress

"Although a food processor is not an absolutely essential piece of equipment, because you can certainly chop, grate, slice, knead and mix everything by hand, it does do all these things very quickly and efficiently and saves you time and energy"

Delia Smith, Celebrity

"I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments"

Carl Wilson, Musician

"I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated"

Avril Lavigne, Musician

"When the show is over we still have to pay our rent, we have to buy food. We have to do all the same things that you do"

Jamie Farr, Actor

"The one thing that I'm in charge of in this wedding is the food"

Rob Mariano, Celebrity

"The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite"

Robert M. Parker, Jr., Critic

"The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population"

Ernst Engel, Economist

"The wonderful thing about Food for Thought is that it lets you keep your hand in theater and be in front of a live audience without a commitment of six months, or even three months"

Treat Williams, Actor

"Debbie Gibson and dog food. I've always dreamed of this"

Julie Brown, Actress

"Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food"

Satish Kumar, Activist

"They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival"

Russel Honore, Soldier

"America is becoming more and more dependent upon imports from foreign manufacturers than we are exports from our country in all fields: in appliances, in clothing, even food. This year America may become for the first time in its history a net food importer"

Marcy Kaptur, Politician

"About 20 per cent of the population believe themselves to have a food allergy and only about five per cent actually do"

John Warner, Politician

"One of the glories of New York is its ethnic food, and only McDonald's and Burger King equalize us all"

John Corry

"When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game"

Fuzzy Zoeller, Athlete

"The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the invention of the Malthusian theory of population"

Henry Charles Carey, Economist

"Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed... I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself"

Delia Smith, Celebrity

"I promised her an interesting life and good food, and the rest is history"

Bob Ehrlich, Politician

"There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford"

Sydney Brenner, Scientist

"And on a Canadian set, everybody is equal. You get paid the same. You live together in barracks. You have a communal kitchen. You buy and cook your own food"

Sandra Oh, Actress

"The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply"

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Writer

"Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences"

Ralph Merkle, Scientist

"The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity"

Naomi Klein, Journalist

"If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital"

Neal Barnard, Author

"Anyway, I lived on the streets and did pretty good until I got caught stealing, what was it? I kicked in a restaurant window, went in and took all the food that I wanted, and while coming out I was grabbed"

Gregory Corso, Poet

"I feel good now. I've gained all my weight back after getting stoned for three weeks and not eating and not sleeping much. I've been coming by my mom's and eating food"

Marc Wallice, Actor

"And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish"

Martha Gellhorn, Journalist

"I love good food but I follow strict rules the days I perform"

Jose Carreras, Musician

"Kolkata is a great city, has great food and great people. We had some problems finding the kind of old buildings we were looking for, and even handling the crowds, but on the whole it was fun shooting there"

Sanjay Dutt, Actor

"I can get whatever I want to eat and when you, you know, you forget to eat you sometimes pick up fast food"

Star Jones, Entertainer

"One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment"

Charlie Trotter, Celebrity

"I don't enjoy traveling in America. I don't like the food, the cars. It is not exotic enough. It all tastes a bit like airline food"

Carla Bley, Musician

"I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so"

Peabo Bryson, Musician

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