Food Quotes

"Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France"

Paul Prudhomme, Celebrity

"I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom"

Joseph Hume, Scientist

"I don't know of any cases where as a result of religious precepts a population have found themselves enjoying less food than they would have if they didn't follow this particular religion"

Marvin Harris, Scientist

"You go to a show, and there's no food at all, so if you're doing shows back to back, you can forget eating. I remember standing up in the bath one day, and there was a mirror in front of me, and I was so thin! I hated it. I never liked being that skinny"

Kate Moss, Model

"We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food"

Paul Prudhomme, Celebrity

"If you have acid in food, you need to sugar it. At a high temperature, the acids are changed to sugar"

Paul Prudhomme, Celebrity

"I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food"

Paul Prudhomme, Celebrity

"Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us"

Joseph Hume, Scientist

"We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself!"

Paul Prudhomme, Celebrity

"Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is a valid fear. Some of the genetic alterations of food are a little edgy"

Nick Nolte, Actor

"In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a disadvantage in proportion to the higher rate of his food"

Joseph Hume, Scientist

"I don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. I don't care if I live in a dump. I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"I wait for the next opportunity to have something to do with food. If I get rested, my mind just starts creating new dishes - click, click, click"

Paul Prudhomme, Celebrity

"We ought, therefore, to lessen the price of food to our manufacturers, and place them more on a level with the manufacturers who have cheaper food, and also much lighter taxation"

Joseph Hume, Scientist

"While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile"

Alan Autry, Actor

"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home"

James A. Michener, Novelist

"The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it"

Edward Koch, Politician

"More and more surveys in the US are indicating a change in values taking place among consumers, who become more concerned about quality of life, food, health and the environment"

David Korten, Activist

"If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food"

Eamon de Valera, Statesman

"We are also in the process of defining how best to work together with food and other companies to address diet and physical activity factors in order to prevent chronic diseases"

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Politician

"Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children"

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Politician

"The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer and assures fair trading practices in food"

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Politician

"I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians"

Elton John, Musician

"The American public is not aware that there might be potential allergenic and toxic reactions. With regular food, at least people know which foods they have an allergy to"

Jeremy Rifkin, Economist

"If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children's mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean"

Sitting Bull, Statesman

"Now the restaurants have begun to catch up with the wine-making; there are numerous great restaurants in Napa Valley, and it's wonderful because the people are there for just that: great food and great wine"

Thomas Keller, Celebrity

"Hopefully, imparting what's important to me, respect for the food and that information about the purveyors, people will realize that for a restaurant to be good, so many pieces have to come together"

Thomas Keller, Celebrity

"Food should be fun"

Thomas Keller, Celebrity

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world"

J. R. R. Tolkien, Novelist

"We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for"

Jeremy Rifkin, Economist

"They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival"

Jeremy Rifkin, Economist

"The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families"

Jeremy Rifkin, Economist

"We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing"

Ernest Holmes, Theologian

"Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities"

Lewis Mumford, Sociologist

"For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn"

William Banting, Celebrity

"Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops"

Jeremy Rifkin, Economist

"I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food"

Thomas Malthus, Economist

"We got so much food in America we're allergic to food. Allergic to food! Hungry people ain't allergic to s***. You think anyone in Rwanda's got a f****** peanut allergy?"

Chris Rock, Comedian

"Food is one of the greatest gifts we can give to ourselves and to others"

Jamie Oliver, Chef

"Healthy food is not expensive. Junk food is"

Jamie Oliver, Chef

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