Food Quotes
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In the country, weather is as important as food and sometimes means the difference between life and death.
Betty MacDonald
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The primary human need, he decided—stronger than the need for food or sex or love—is the need for recognition, the need to make a mark in the world.
Brian Morton
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Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the nose of such a person of affairs; or if he is spattered with mud from a carriage which drives past him in still greater haste; or the drawbridge opens up before him; or a tile falls down and knocks him dead, then I laugh heartily.
Soren Kierkegaard
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The food of hope is meditative action.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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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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Food over flame burns, food over heat cooks.
Alfred the Great
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Bacon bits are like the fairy dust of the food community.
Jim Gaffigan
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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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On the one hand, Klaus, surely the only man in Topeka outfitted in white linen, could not take these kids—with their refrigerators full of food, their air-conditioning and television, their freedom from stigma or state violence—seriously; what could be more obvious than the fact that they did not know what suffering was, that if they suffered from anything it was precisely this lack of suffering, a kind of neuropathy that came from too much ease, too much sugar, a kind of existential gout?
Ben Lerner
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I'm a professional food eater.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food.
Elizabeth Goudge
