Food Quotes

• Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.

  

  Berkeley Breathed
  • Family
  • Funny
  • Doubt

• When someone is bothered by someone claiming lack of drinking water, lack of medicine for the sick, and lack of food for the hungry, that person has problems too deep to be explained in an interview.

  

  Carmen Yulin Cruz
  • Water
  • Deep
  • Sick

• Those other 10 o'clock shows that come on, all you get from them is headaches and nightmares when you go to bed! At least we give you food, know what I mean?

  

  Emeril Lagasse
  • Food

• The trans fat label has been an enormous incentive for food companies to take trans fat out of their products.

  

  Marion Nestle
  • Products
  • Fat
  • Food Companies

• My very first kiss happened when I was 6, underneath some desks during 'nap time', but my first real kiss happened when I was 15 in the parking lot at a Mexican food restaurant.

  

  Armie Hammer
  • Time
  • Real
  • Kiss

• We must go beyond organic, as it is currently defined in the National Organic Standards, and strive for food that is not only healthful and natural but also local... Buying locally means farmers get more of the food dollar, we get better nutrition, and less fuel is consumed in transport.

  

  Kathleen Merrigan
  • Natural
  • Farmers
  • National

• 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
  • Food
  • Religious

• When I see my staff take a step back because I've lost my cool about something food-related, I say never apologise for your standards. If someone doesn't meet them, then you should explain that and that you want it changed. I want my staff to be like that, too.

  

  Curtis Stone
  • Food
  • Lost
  • Cool

• If I like a food, I'll eat it, even if I know it's not good for me.

  

  Kim Kardashian
  • Good
  • Food

• I work closely with a number of charities from food pantries to drug rehabilitation to natural disaster relief to preventing sexual exploitation of young girls. It is one of the most rewarding things I do.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Work
  • Girl
  • Drug

• If I'm going to eat fast food, I'm going to McDonald's. I don't need to pretend.

  

  Chrissy Teigen
  • Food

• I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a little bummed out when there is too much fancy stuff going on and it doesn't resemble the original dish at all.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Remember
  • Food

• The Italian Renaissance extends beyond food, of course. Just about every major Italian furniture designer now has a shop in Paris, and Le Bon Marche recently opened an outlet for Santa Maria Novella perfumes, elixirs and soaps from Florence on its ground floor.

  

  Elaine Sciolino
  • Food
  • Paris
  • Italian

• It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • People
  • Success
  • Health

• It seems strange that bears, so fond of all sorts of flesh, running the risks of guns and fires and poison, should never attack men except in defense of their young. How easily and safely a bear could pick us up as we lie asleep! Only wolves and tigers seem to have learned to hunt man for food, and perhaps sharks and crocodiles.

  

  John Muir
  • Up
  • Men
  • Running

• According to my mother, there pretty much wasn't anything I wouldn't eat as a child. Not just try, but eat. I was even inclined to dig into stuff about which she expressed open disgust - lobster and other shellfish, and cheap Chinese food with pepper so hot it made your gums feel like a medieval dentist had been at them.

  

  Alice Dreger
  • She
  • Mother
  • Pretty

• I eat fast food all the time.

  

  Jessica White
  • Time
  • Food

• I probably grow half my food. It's a good way to keep perspective.

  

  Emilio Estevez
  • Good
  • Food
  • Perspective

• This has got to be the most expensive food ever laminated.

  

  Marian Burros
  • Food
  • Laminated

• If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.

  

  Aristotle
  • Work
  • Men
  • Chastisement

• We had our wheat. We made our own olive oil. We made our wine. We had chickens, ducks; we had sheep, cows, milk. So I was raised in a very simple situation but understanding really food from the ground... the essence of food and the flavors. And those memories I took with me, and I think that they lingered on.

  

  Lidia Bastianich
  • Simple
  • Understanding
  • Memories

• I only eat healthy food, and I only want healthy love!

  

  Jillian Michaels
  • Food

• If the nature of the work is properly appreciated and applied, it will stand in the same relation to the higher faculties as food is to the physical body.

  

  J. C. Kumarappa
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Body

• We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • People
  • Luxury
  • Granted

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