Food Quotes

At either end of any food chain you find a biological system-a patch of soil, a human body-and the health of one is connected-literally-to the health of the other.

The wonderful thing about food is you get three votes a day. Every one of them has the potential to change the world.

It's hard to think of a time when I'm not working, but when that is the case, I like to travel and eat good food.

Dimly lit restaurants always make me think they're trying to hide the food.

Global trade has advantages. For starters, it allows those of us who live through winter to eat fresh produce year-round. And it provides economic benefits to farmers who grow that food.

By 2030 the demand for resources will create a crisis with dire consequences. Demand for food and energy will jump 50% by 2030 and for fresh water by 30%, as the population tops 8.3 billion

Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection have molded our nature, so too can our culture.

Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.

I'm naturally thin, so I don't have to work too hard at it. I love food, but I also love to work out. I think it makes everything work better.

The True Person governs by emptying the heart of desire and filling the belly with food, weakening ambitions and strengthening bones.

I was taught from childhood of the sanctity of food. Not a piece of bread could be thrown away without kissing it and raising it to one's eyes as with all things holy.

If the fat people just gave the skinny people more food, we could all just eat... We could solve obesity and hunger at the same time.

As a chef and activist, I'm particularly concerned with food politics issues such as the farm bill.

The food industry, its trade associations, and research foundations, is well financed and highly organized to pressure the FDA.

Food for the mind is like food for the body: the inputs are never the same as the outputs.

What did a person need to survive? Food. Water. Shelter. Warmth in cold weather. And something else... books.

The 2013/14 storms & floods show the UK needs to invest in a climate resilient, low carbon, food secure, full employment, positive future

A person who can get a good table at Chez Panisse at the last minute is a very important person indeed. Royalty begins with Alice Waters.

Junk food, empty calories and carbs are the Big Data of the masses

You can heal your body with food.

Food is medicine! We have forgotten that!

Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar.

What is the minimum daily requirement for carbohydrates? ZERO. The food pyramid is based on a totally irrelevant nutrient.

Energy is food. Most people on earth feed on each other's energy, all of the time, seven days a week. The more energy you have, the more interested parties there will be in having lunch.

The Russians will never be able to get their missiles thought the dense protective layer of delayed flights circling over the United States in complex, puke-inducing holding patterns.

Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but theres no food, no culture, no ocean.

In modern America, food is abundant everywhere except aboard commercial airplanes.

Granted, this system is insane, but we must not let sanity stand in the way of airport security.

While eating a delicious food, remember the peasants and the workers who made this possible!

One of the richest countries in the history of the world having communities where people have to go over half an hour to get to fresh produce and food is unacceptable.

Motto of the U.S. airline industry - "We're Hoping to Have a Motto Announcement in About an Hour."

The discussion about food doesn't make any sense without discussion at the same time of land, land use, land policy, fertility maintenance, and farm infrastructure maintenance.

I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.

Maybe you know why a child can reject a hot dog with mustard served on a soft bun at home, yet eat six of them two hours later at fifty cents each.

Beyond the shadow of a doubt, food was more important than a woman's suffering.

I'm not interested in food. It's just fuel.

I'm completely changing my diet. My nutritionist recommends I must now stop eating food I have already eliminated.

Many a man in his hour of trial has turned to the Book of Mormon and been enlightened, enlivened, and comforted. The psalms in the Old Testament have a special food for the soul of one in distress.

When I come home from a shoot, I'd rather reheat food I've made than eat takeout.

The origin of agriculture involved both human intentionality and a set of underlying ecological and evolutionary principles.

Information, if viewed from the point of view of food, is never a production issue. ... It's a consumption issue, and we have to start thinking about how we create diets [and] exercise.

If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.

No parents. You have Uncle Jesse, forever in overalls. Then there's Bo and Duke. What do they do? I never saw them working for food or gas money. You can only kill so many possum.

If you put junk food in your body, your body will turn to junk.

A vampire may play with his food, but he never sets it free.

There must be some good in the cocktail party to account for its immense vogue among otherwise sane people.

Most days I only go out to the post office or to get some food. Otherwise I work on my art or music. I check out the news, and generally spend a lot of time on Tumblr or Facebook or whatever.

I have 40 pounds to lose. It is not the fault of the fast food people, and anyone who's trying to sue the fast food places needs a therapist, not an attorney.

I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.

I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.