Food Quotes
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We are turning everything on this planet into food for humans. We'll eat it and, if we can't eat it, we'll kill it and take its place and just move it out of the way.
Morgan Freeman
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The French fried potato has become an inescapable horror in almost every public eating place in the country. 'French fries', say the menus, but they are not French fries any longer. They are a furry-textured substance with the taste of plastic wood.
Russell Baker
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Some of the best fiction writers got their start writing airline menus.
Erma Bombeck
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I was trampled to death by a man who believed his luggage would be the first piece off. If he were an experienced traveler, he would know that the first piece of luggage belongs to no one. It's just a dummy suitcase to give everyone hope.
Erma Bombeck
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A meal is a when you eat something that incorporates multiple food groups.
Harley Pasternak
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I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.
Elizabeth Edwards
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By He in whose Hand is my soul, I have lived amongst people who never ordered food to be prepared for themselves If food was presented to one of them, he would eat, otherwise, he would be silent; and he would not care if it was hot or cold.
Abu Nu`aym
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Food ... love ... mother ... career ... Live every day to the fullest. Partake of the four basic guilt groups.
Cathy Guisewite
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We need to start thinking about the future of food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment.
Bill Gates
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We should begin at the very root from which we spring, we should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.
Nikola Tesla
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American food is not what I'm used to - everything is like three portions.
Estelle
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If you ask me to get a six-pack in the interim between signing a film, I will not do it. I enjoy food and will be happy to feed myself a pizza or two and gorge on cakes. But, I have good control over my body.
R. Madhavan
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My grandmother was the genesis of my connection and passion to food.
Lidia Bastianich
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We haven't really got to see that much of America because when we're touring there's always interviews to do or whatever, but the things I like most about America are the food -- nachos! -- and the roller coaster at Magic Mountain. The thing I liked least was the cold weather when we were there in February -- it's much better in summer.
Ben Gillies Silverchair
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Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.
Scott Adams
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The real food is not being advertised.
Michael Pollan
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The beauty of impulse eating may be that you end up eating less—when you do eat—than someone who has been thinking about the food for hours. The more you think of something, the more of it you’ll eat.
Brian Wansink
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What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?
Erma Bombeck
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If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
Erma Bombeck
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He whose inflowing thoughts are dried up, who is unattached to food, whose dwelling place is an empty and imageless release - the way of such a person is hard to follow, like the path of birds through the sky.
Gautama Buddha
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I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
Erma Bombeck
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God is great and God is good, And we thank Him for this food. By His hand may we be led, Give us Lord or daily bread.
Betty MacDonald
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Why should you take by force that from us that which you can have by Love? Why should you destroy us, who have provided you with food What can you get by war?
Chief Powhatan