Food Quotes

"When once an Indian sees that his food is secure, he does not care what the chief or any one else says"

"A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"Food is an important part of a balanced diet"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

"If you're going to America, bring your own food"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

"If food were free, why work?"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet

"Our budget works to reduce and eliminate the risk of attacks at our ports, rails, in the skies, our food supply and roads by allowing for increases in many of the programs and agencies to help protect these important areas of commerce and travel"

Jim Ryun, Athlete

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

Sarah Bernhardt, Actress

"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"

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet

"Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now"

Imelda Staunton, Actress

"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"

Barack Obama, President

"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"

Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist

"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"

Rodney Dangerfield, Comedian

"If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now"

James Lovelock, Scientist

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

Bill Watterson, Cartoonist

"The most dangerous food is wedding cake"

James Thurber, Comedian

"When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself"

Tecumseh, Leader

"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"

Xun Kuang, Philosopher

"The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress"

Beth Henley, Playwright

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

Elias Canetti, Author

"Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate"

Emily Dickinson, Poet

"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"

Martin Yan, Celebrity

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

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"I normally don't eat junk food"

Martin Yan, Celebrity

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

Martin Yan, Celebrity

"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"

Martin Yan, Celebrity

"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"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

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

Anne McCaffrey, Author

"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"

Mario Lemieux, Athlete

"When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex"

Tom Lehrer, Musician

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

P. G. Wodehouse, Writer

"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"

James Madison, President

"The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal"

Michelle Obama, First Lady

"Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him"

Helen Rowland, Journalist

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

Joseph Butler, Clergyman

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

Garrison Keillor, Writer

"Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs"

Martin Heidegger, Philosopher

"I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens"

Alma Guillermoprieto, Journalist

"If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food"

Kanye West, Musician

"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"

Klaus Kinski, Actor

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