Food Quotes

Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain

Food is better medicine than drugs

books are brain food. If every American would purchase the equivalent of his weight in books each year, this country would be a different place.

I had a very normal childhood, and my mother cooked very normal food.

Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.

My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

If you're out, and starving, and need a bite to eat, then you need fast food.

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

Our economic approach to food and its distribution reflects our basic moral values.

Aioli epitomizes the heat, the power, and the joy of the Provencal sun, but it has another virtue -- it drives away flies.

When Christ said: "I was hungry and you fed me," he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness.

People were always pointing the finger at the fast food industry. And I was a big fan of personal responsibility - you know, no one is forcing you to eat. We're not geese being stuffed with corn.

It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.

I juice everything! Whether it's beet, carrot, or apple, I'll juice it. I always keep brown rice in the kitchen. I'll often pack a cooler full of food to have throughout the day when I'm busy.

I live by the philosophy that beauty starts from within, and I make a conscious effort to fill my body with nutrients through the food I eat.

He who lives with his senses well controlled, moderate in his food and drink, he will not be overthrown, any more than the wind throws down a rocky mountain.

With "We Are The World," I can't even eat when I watch that on television. If I'm eatin' some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.

Your relationship to food, no matter how conflicted, is the doorway to freedom.

I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

I never eat sushi. I have trouble eating things that are merely unconscious.

I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.

Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself.

Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.

Chefs don't do ponytails and we shouldn't do them because I guarantee that whenever there's a discovery of hair in the food, it's guaranteed it's from the chef's ponytail.

Sometimes you've gotta hide the medicine in the food. You can't slap somebody in the face with facts, all the time. It's too harsh.

As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain. It is, I believe, the greatest of human inventions, and by far - much greater than Hell, the radio or the bichloride tablet.

Lisa: 'Do we have any food that wasn't brutally slaughtered?' Homer: 'Well, I think the veal died of loneliness.'

For me, a good YA novel is the best kind of comfort food.

Food should be consumed while chanting your mantra inwardly. This will purify the food and the mind at the same time.

I am very honored for all the distinctions and accolades, but what I am most sensitive to is my clientele and the fact they are pleased with my food and my restaurants.

Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

Money is only unused power. The real purpose of wealth, after food, clothing and shelter, is philanthropy.

My inspiration is life. My family, my friends, travelling, books, music, love, food, fashion. What inspires you?

That's been my forever love affair - Mexican food. But yeah it has to be something savory or cheesy. I'm not tempted by sweets.

Extreme exercise doesn’t save you from poor food choices. It can be difficult to exercise and erase away that chocolate cake or pizza pie. It doesn’t work that way.

We drink [to] one another's health and spoil our own.

It's like the little rat in the Skinner box who says, "I've got this psychologist under my control. Every time I press the bar, he gives me a food pellet."

There is nothing like soup. It is by nature eccentric: no two are ever alike, unless of course you get your soup in a can.

To feel safe and warm on a cold wet night, all you really need is soup.

Your pantry is your first line of defense against food-borne illness and things like high blood pressure and cholesterol.

Canned food is a perversion,' Ignatius said. 'I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul.

One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.

England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.

James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.

It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.

Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.

You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too.

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.