Food Quotes

"To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse"

"We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food"

Kevin Richardson, Musician

"The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month"

Ed Bradley, Journalist

"The facility of obtaining food is beneficial in two ways to the owners of capital, it at the same time raises profits and increases the amount of consumable commodities"

David Ricardo, Economist

"Food should be raw, just the way God intended it!"

Carol Alt, Model

"There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick"

Robert A. Heinlein, Writer

"President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting"

Andy Rooney, Journalist

"If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either"

Joseph Wood Krutch, Environmentalist

"The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food"

Nicholas D. Kristof, Writer

"If you ever want to eat a tuna sandwich again, don't go to a tuna factory. I visited one where they had two lines: one was the human food line and one was the cat food line - and they didn't look any different"

Mark Mobius, Businessman

"My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me"

Nana Mouskouri, Musician

"Unfortunately, the food industry has not yet faced this situation and begun taking measures to avoid exploiting our weakness for not knowing when we have had enough"

Marvin Harris, Scientist

"The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums"

Peter De Vries, Novelist

"Health food makes me sick"

Calvin Trillin, Journalist

"The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out"

Calvin Trillin, Journalist

"Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing"

Robert Kiyosaki, Author

"Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives"

Nicholas D. Kristof, Writer

"Three things are needed for a good life, good friends, good food, and good song"

Jason Zebehazy, Businessman

"I also believe that it's the right thing to do, to maintain strong consumer confidence in our food systems. And I believe that the consumer should have strong confidence in our food systems"

Ann Veneman, Public Servant

"Pigs eat grass if they are very hungry, but they can't use it as a regular source of food"

Marvin Harris, Scientist

"Like most North Americans, I'd been raised on the notion that milk is the first food, and everybody must like it because it's so good and so important for growing up and for being healthy"

Marvin Harris, Scientist

"Fast sex, like fast food, is cheap, but it doesn't nourish the body - or the soul"

Suzanne Fields

"Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada"

Paul Prudhomme, Celebrity

"I've been to therapists my whole life. I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am. Any obsession is dangerous. And a whole country that's obsessed with one thing, unless it's, like, jeans, it's very dangerous. Everyone's obsessed right now with carbohydrates in this country. It's ridiculous"

Christina Ricci, Actress

"When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere"

Calvin Trillin, Journalist

"Today, there are also buyers and sellers of all these energy commodities, just like there are buyers and sellers of food commodities and many other commodities"

Kenneth Lay, Businessman

"The demand for beef in Canada remains strong because I think people in America, in North America, know that we have a very strong food safety system and that our food is safe to eat"

Ann Veneman, Public Servant

"As far as luxury goes, about the only thing I do is... I go first class all the way. I live on the road, so when I'm out there, I'm getting the nice hotel suite, I'm getting the luxury car, I'm eating the good food, and I make sure I take care of myself on the road"

Trish Stratus, Entertainer

"It makes me so angry - there's enough food in the world but people are starving. It's all political"

Judith Light, Actress

"I'm confident that we have measures in place. And the additional measures that we announced yesterday will be even more protective of our food supply in this country"

Ann Veneman, Public Servant

"It's my first presenting role so I'll be nervous, but it's going to be great fun. I can't wait to sample the food and meet the celebrities. Hopefully I can inject some of my own glamour"

Nicole Appleton, Musician

"We use competitive markets to arrange for delivery of our food supply"

Kenneth Lay, Businessman

"I like food. I like eating. And I don't want to deprive myself of good food"

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Actress

"I do love Italian food. Any kind of pasta or pizza. My new pig out food is Indian food. I eat Indian food like three times a week. It's so good"

Jennifer Love Hewitt, Actress

"And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food"

Joan Collins, Actress

"We are doing everything we can to protect the food supply. And I can tell you that we're making decisions based upon sound science and good public policy, given the circumstances that we are now in"

Ann Veneman, Public Servant

"I'd like to have the first restaurant that can deliver incredible quality food to your table at your house at any time-right where you live"

Paul Prudhomme, Celebrity

"After failing four times and after working for other people and realizing that nobody paid attention to the food like they should have, we wanted to just pay attention to the food and service"

Paul Prudhomme, Celebrity

"In '71 or '72 I returned to New Orleans and stayed there. I started cooking Louisiana food. Of all the things I had cooked, it was the best-and it was my heritage"

Paul Prudhomme, Celebrity

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