Food Quotes

"I believe that we can make a difference in the world through the power of food"

Jamie Oliver, Chef

"I want to be a champion for good food, and that's something that I will always be passionate about"

Jamie Oliver, Chef

"My job is to educate and inspire people to make better choices when it comes to food"

Jamie Oliver, Chef

"Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food"

Steve Albini, Musician

"There were different challenges along the way. Certainly the food shortage was unpleasant"

Leroy Chiao, Astronaut

"If I can wake up everyday before I die and know that I don't have to serve anyone food or drinks, I will be happy!"

Kelly Clarkson, Musician

"There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness"

Tony Snow, Journalist

"This president has said this has to be a priority for our nation, protecting our food supply from terrorist acts, so he continues to provide the funding that is necessary"

Mike Johanns, Politician

"A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed"

Mary Tyler Moore, Actress

"I always say centered food equals centered behavior"

Marilu Henner, Actress

"A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

"The two things that could have been better is number one, to get major military force into the community almost immediately to make sure that there was law and order. Number two, we had enough helicopters to airlift food into the centers of population and those places"

Warren Rudman, Politician

"My idea of fast food is a mallard"

Ted Nugent, Musician

"I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips"

Tyra Banks, Model

"When you're starting out as an actor, there isn't much food around. I was lucky to have a hit pretty early on. I didn't starve too long"

Steve Guttenberg, Actor

"You don't have to live in the country and grow your own food to be green"

Shalom Harlow, Model

"The food is absolutely atrocious, and parents have no idea. Parents are giving their kids three dollars and saying, 'Okay, see you later. Go off to school and have a good lunch.'"

Morgan Spurlock, Director

"I went in saying I wanted to be the food guy"

Ted Allen, Entertainer

"Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

"I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs"

John Warnock, Scientist

"Also we will be carrying food and clothes for the Expedition Two crew. And as well as spare parts for the EVA that will be conducted from the station in the following months"

Umberto Guidoni, Astronaut

"It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him"

Dorothy Day, Activist

"We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come and to which we will then be able to provide food and water and medical help"

Les Aspin, Politician

"From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands"

Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist

"Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control"

Tracey Gold, Actress

"As a matter of fact, I've been to Italy many times before I met my husband, which he can't even imagine that I could possibly know anything about Italian food. But, you know, Italian food's really basic, and there's so many different variations on it that what my husband did is he broke it down for me"

Debi Mazar, Actress

"To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected"

Geraldo Rivera, Journalist

"Many Americans are unaware that we still have a large population of working families, elderly, and children who rely on emergency food pantries, shelters, and other resources to meet their nutritional needs"

Blanche Lincoln, Politician

"I swear I want to be a food model"

Amy Sedaris, Actress

"In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found"

Alfred Russel Wallace, Scientist

"I could talk food all day. I love good food"

Tom Brady, Athlete

"Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better"

Robert Redford, Actor

"All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone; to show that you can make mistakes - I do all the time - but it doesn't matter"

Jamie Oliver, Chef

"Then you get to be involved with all the people, meet all the beautiful girls, get all the good food, get ready and locked in before all the crowds hit"

Paul Kantner, Musician

"My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread - works all the time. I think I've been eating pasta for 26 years"

Tom Brady, Athlete

"Life excites me-just little, normal, everyday things. Getting out of bed. Getting dressed. Making food. I find it all exciting"

Liv Tyler, Actress

"Furthermore I will just have to see what the future will bring me. But a change of food whets the appetite"

Jonathan Brandis, Actor

"Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food"

Frank Howard Clark, Writer

"An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed"

A. J. Liebling, Journalist

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