Food Quotes

"But my answer to that question would have to be, aside from the obvious, which is the people and the relationships that you garner over a long period of time but the catering. The catering. They're the best. So it's the food"

Richard Dean Anderson, Actor

"It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf"

Christopher Dodd, Politician

"First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that"

Neil LaBute, Director

"Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise"

Hans Selye, Scientist

"My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky"

William Faulkner, Novelist

"I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it"

Reese Witherspoon, Actress

"The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey"

William Faulkner, Novelist

"We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough"

Robert Mugabe, Statesman

"I am a serious food lover and Peruvian cuisine is one of the best in the world"

Helena Christensen, Model

"From the minute I wake up until I go to bed I think about food"

Helena Christensen, Model

"I believe food is the most brilliant invention ever"

Helena Christensen, Model

"I love junk food"

Liam Hemsworth, Actor

"If I have one addiction in life, it's probably food"

Liam Hemsworth, Actor

"I love fried food"

Liam Hemsworth, Actor

"When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail"

William Westmoreland, Soldier

"Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community"

Rod Blagojevich, Politician

"The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Author

"My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it"

Michael Pollan, Educator

"In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn"

Michael Pollan, Educator

"In our short walks we passed the kitchen where food was prepared for the nurses and doctors. There we got glimpses of melons and grapes and all kinds of fruits, beautiful white bread and nice meats, and the hungry feeling would be increased tenfold"

Nellie Bly, Journalist

"Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before"

Michael Pollan, Educator

"If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?"

Joyce Carol Oates, Novelist

"Congress is headed in the wrong direction with this bill which removes any and all incentives from the food industry to improve their products for children"

Bob Filner, Politician

"Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite"

Quintilian, Educator

"People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue"

Michael Pollan, Educator

"We had the best food any battlefield ever had"

William Westmoreland, Soldier

"My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats"

Kenny Loggins, Musician

"A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it"

Katherine Whitehorn, Journalist

"However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with young children are insufficient. We will never control this rising epidemic without greater accountability from the food industry"

Bob Filner, Politician

"I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself"

Johnny Carson, Comedian

"Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand"

Michael Pollan, Educator

"I have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It's very comforting"

Teri Garr, Actress

"Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food"

Raymond Chandler, Writer

"Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food"

Michael Pollan, Educator

"I think things like food, the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all, Black and White, the sense memories. It's a very particular part of the country"

Sela Ward, Actress

"In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn"

Michael Pollan, Educator

"Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can"

Michael Pollan, Educator

"I've talked to some drummers who seem to have a very hard time staying in shape on the road, including some drummers touring with high-profile acts that don't have to live on fast food every night"

Matt Cameron, Musician

"Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison"

Walter Bagehot, Author

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