Food Quotes

"Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don't understand what's been done to you - by your own people and the so-called "they" - you can never get around it"

"It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water; also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion"

"Don't make jokes about food"

"I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting"

"The prejudice was so bad in the United States at that time that a dark person with a white person would not be served in a restaurant. My father, mother, and I would try it occasionally. We would sit there, and the food would never come"

"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead"

"Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside"

"There is no sincerer love than the love of food"

"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food"

"Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world"

"Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body"

"And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul"

"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes"

"You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed"

"It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available"

"Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair"

"Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business"

"Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before"

"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it"

"No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company"

"I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?"

"The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education"

"Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household"

"Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water"

"Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water"

"Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food"

"You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful"

"Facts are to the mind what food is to the body"

"A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "lifestyles" turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind"

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

"I've always preferred food be on the blander side"

"Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food"

"I don't always buy organic food. It is more expensive"

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

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

"Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry"

"Relief organizations both large and small are coordinating deliveries of food, clothing, water, and other basic necessities to those impacted by Katrina"

"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"

"Never order food in excess of your body weight"

"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"