Food Quotes

Dear Eloisa (said I) there’s no occasion for your crying so much about such a trifle. (for I was wil...

Much was said, and much was ate, and all went well.

I did this book 'Harvest for Hope,' and I learned so much about food. And one thing I learned is tha...

Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ev...

Food has always brought me comfort and the bingeing is triggered when I'm in a space that is not pos...

The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary require...

I won't eat what I can't kill. It seems shoddy, hypocritical.

We are not encouraged, on a daily basis, to pay careful attention to the animals we eat. On the cont...

My best hostess tip is to have good food and really good music!

Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought t...

On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a ...

A ship's captain was her master and the right hand of God in Heaven Himself, and concerned with matt...

Each city in the southeastern part of the United States has its own unique type of specialty food th...

I resent when I go out to dinner and they try to sell me the healthy food for the same price as the ...

In America we have gone way beyond sustenance. Eating is an activity. 'Why don’t we get lunch, and t...

I love the phrase "I have a sweet tooth." I always want to say, "You're ordering it for your tooth? ...

There are people who eat only organic food, and then there are people who don’t have tons of money t...

How did we get to the point where we're paying for bottled water? I imagine it was some weird market...

Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.

You couldn’t get worse food, or food more detached from nature, if you tried. If you have an apple, ...

I will not forget the instinctive wisdom of the friend who, every day for those first few weeks, bro...

You know, that was what we missed most. Not our beds, not our homes, not even our mothers. We would ...

I learned a long time ago with you that folks who were trying to be kind would rather do it with a m...

[There's a] point where you have to leave the dough alone. It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but...

I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel fr...

Move to Italy. I mean it: they know about living in debt; they don't care. I stayed out there for fi...

Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of a...

Beans are a warm cloak against economic cold.

Chinese food in Texas is the best Chinese food in the United States except Boston.

You thought you knew what food was, you thought it was elemental. You forgot how much restaurant the...

Before you rush off trying to see everything you can, educate yourself.

There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obses...

Rationally, factory farming is so obviously wrong, in so many ways. In all of my reading and convers...

It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.

...Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytellin...

Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, reli...

Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) 'meet and exceed requirem...

Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore -- "I'm easy; I'll eat anything" -- can appear more soc...

We need a better way to talk about eating animals. We need a way that brings meat to the center of p...

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

There was shish-kabob for lunch, huge, savory hunks of spitted meat sizzling like the devil over cha...

Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.

I don't need a diet pill. I need something that gives you an electric shock when you reach for food.

There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food...

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell atti...

Life itself is the proper binge.

It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.

How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?

If you're afraid of butter, use cream.

Just like becoming an expert in wine–you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford–you learn abo...

The German birds didn't taste as good as their French cousins, nor did the frozen Dutch chickens we ...

But my favorite remained the basic roast chicken. What a deceptively simple dish. I had come to beli...

I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make. ...

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if y...

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

I never touch sugar, cheese, bread... I only like what I'm allowed to like. I'm beyond temptation. T...

A block of blood should not have the word "cake" after it...they might as well say "shite gateau

Not much goes on in the mind of a squirrel.Huge portions of what is loosely termed "the squirrel bra...

There ain't no point in making soup unless others eat it. Soup needs another mouth to taste it, anot...

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger's ...

She felt so lost and lonely. One last chile in walnut sauce left on the platter after a fancy dinner...

There are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what ...

Tita knew through her own flesh how fire transforms the elements, how a lump of corn flour is change...

I get a delivery of a diet food during the week, which doesn't mean that I don't eat the occasional ...

I've pretty much always been on a diet since I was born. And the women in my family struggle, so I f...

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, co...

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

What kind of person doesn't let you have gummi bears?

If man be sensible and one fine morning, while he is lying in bed,counts at the tips of his fingers ...

What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?

I always tell my kids to cut a sandwich in half right when you get it, and the first thought you sho...

I always tell my kids to cut a sandwich in half right when you get it, and the first thought you sho...

I always tell my kids to cut a sandwich in half right when you get it, and the first thought you sho...

I always tell my kids to cut a sandwich in half right when you get it, and the first thought you sho...

One of the very best things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing...

All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic...

To a man with an empty stomach food is god.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

I did not wait to hear the end of my father's story, for I had been with him myself after mass when ...

How good it is, when you have roast meat or suchlike foods before you, to impress on your mind that ...

A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minu...

As Charles Darwin said,'The economy shown by Nature in her resources is striking,'' says the Spirit....

I always thought eating was a ridiculous activity anyway. I'd get out of it myself if I could, thoug...

That’s what you get for being food.

Good food, fresh water, and an occasional sweet and someone to care for. That's what everyone should...

The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or "sweetness.

It has now been many months, at the present writing, since I have had a nourishing meal, but I shall...

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a...

A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted wit...

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I...

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Mornings before daylight I slipped into cornfields and borrowed a watermelon, or a mushmelon, or a p...

There are some who are still weak in faith, who ought to be instructed, and who would gladly believe...

I do not particularly like the word 'work.' Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and ...

At first people ate simply because they were alive and because food was tasty. Modern people have co...

Before researchers become researchers they should become philosophers. They should consider what the...

Food and medicine are not two different things: they are the front and back of one body. Chemically ...