Food Quotes
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And you stagger down to break your fast. Greasy bacon and lacquered eggs And coffee composed of frigid dregs.
Ogden Nash
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If I weren't involved with food, I'd be working in architecture. Design is that critical to me.
Alice Waters
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We need a new definition of malnutrition. Malnutrition means under- and over-nutrition. Malnutrition means emaciated and obese.
Catherine Bertini
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I eat well. I don't really, I guess, like, steam my own food and cook my own food in advance. I enjoy food, but I just don't make bad decisions.
John Cena
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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
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Music is one of those things that is constantly going in my head all the time. It's sort of like the evolution and creation of doing food, or my philosophy about wine. It's always beating in my head, so it keeps the spirit moving.
Emeril Lagasse
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I love 'Top Chef.' I think it rewrote the book on how food shows are presented on TV.
Andy Cohen
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I wrote 'Airborn' after completing three books about bats. I loved my bats, but what a treat it was to write about humans again. They could eat food other than midges and mosquitoes, they wore clothing, they slept in beds - all this struck me as wonderfully novel.
Kenneth Oppel
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Food is the place where you begin.
Vandana Shiva
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With every smell, I smell food. With every sight, I see food. I can almost hear food. I want to spade the whole lot through my mouth at Mach 2. Basta!
Sarah Ferguson
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With the Industrial Revolution, the production of food was delegated to big companies in order for women and men to be in the labour force, to come home, stick something in the oven, and eat. It became a big industry that does not have a love affair with food nor is really concerned about nurturing you or giving you the right nutrition.
Lidia Bastianich
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Mr. Speaker, less than 10 percent of our Nation's children walk or ride their bicycles to school, and too many schools continue to invite fast-food vendors into their cafeterias.
Lois Capps
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In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It's very close. Now I feel the world become a big family, like a really big family. You have many neighbors. Not like before, two countries are far away.
Jet Li
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I love how Jamie Oliver makes seasonal, local foods in a rustic way, without a lot of fuss.
Sara Ramirez
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I call it soul food, and I call it compassion food because it kind of bonds loved ones together. It kept families together for a long time.
George Tillman, Jr.
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I don't need the fillers, additives, excessive amounts of sugars, fats, salts and other measures taken to taint the natural goodness of real food.
Mark Hyman
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Good food is a celebration of life.
Sofia Villani Scicolone
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I always say centered food equals centered behavior.
Marilu Henner
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I feel like women bond with other women in this nonverbal way, where they take on each other's gestures. You start dressing more like each other, you eat the same food... It's a way of expressing regard: I want to be like you. Which is flattering, but if you view it another way, terrifying.
Alexandra Kleeman
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I try not to eat processed foods, well, ever. If it comes from a lab or a factory, I don't want it.
John Theodore
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I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.
Julia Child
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I've always been able to cook Italian food. That's in my blood because I'm half Sicilian.
Jen Lancaster
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A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup.
Willa Cather
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Food has always been a class code, and since Alice Waters, the way to give an upper-middle class act is with food that is fresh and local...The class code of the upper-middle class literally links morality and political virtue with certain forms of high-intensity food-preparation activities.
Emily Matchar