Food Quotes

• In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Women
  • Food
  • Water

• It's hard to come into a new relationship with food unless you're engaged in an interactive way at an early age; it's hard to change your values.

  

  Alice Waters
  • Age
  • Food
  • Relationship

• I am a chef through and through. Everything I do - whether it is cooking for kids in Harlem or cooking in a fine dining establishment - all my days are consumed by food.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Kids
  • Food
  • Cooking

• If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Me
  • Healthy
  • Cooks

• Eating more consciously now feels like a way of being. I actually think about how my food got to my plate.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Food
  • Eating
  • Plate

• I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Love
  • Grew
  • Sitcoms

• Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Food
  • Pet
  • Cats

• The great American food writer M. F. K. Fisher once wrote an essay called 'The Anatomy of a Recipe.' To have a good anatomy, in her view, a recipe should have a sense of logical progression. She despaired of recipes with 'anatomical faults,' where the reader is told to make a cake batter and only then to grease the loaf pans.

  

  Bee Wilson
  • Good
  • Great
  • She

• Growing up, we had to work. If you wanted anything at all that was more than basic food and shelter, you had to make your own money.

  

  Carlos Beruff
  • Up
  • Work
  • Money

• Some there are who are nothing else than a passage for food and augmentors of excrement and fillers of privies, because through them no other things in the world, nor any good effects are produced, since nothing but full privies results from them.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • World
  • Good
  • Food

• I could never be in a situation with a job where I was not allowed to listen to music all day. I would rather work at a fast food restaurant where I could turn on the radio all day rather than be in a situation where I have to sneak and listen to music.

  

  Kanye West
  • Work
  • Music
  • Job

• 'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Parents
  • Fear
  • Road

• I'm Italian. I love to cook Italian food, so I learned from my dad how to make sauce and meatballs and all that stuff. With my wife and kids, I started making homemade pasta. The very first time, I didn't have a pasta maker, so I had to cut it with a knife, the old-school way! The noodles were all jacked up, but it was fun.

  

  Joey Fatone NSYNC
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• I know once people get connected to real food, they never change back.

  

  Alice Waters
  • People
  • Real
  • Food

• I don't have a strict diet; I keep it simple. I try to eat fish, meat, veg and carbs - potatoes and rice - but I'll try and pack it in because as I'm burning so much energy. I have to see food as an energy source.

  

  Anthony Joshua
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Simple

• My hair grows into a fuzz ball - I just wanted it to grow downwards rather than outwards - but then I realized I couldn't play guitar with it that way. I couldn't do anything day-to-day without my hair getting in my mouth or my eyes or my food, so I just started tying it back, long before I knew what a man bun was.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Long
  • Eyes
  • Hair

• Indian food is a luxury on tour.

  

  Mahesh Bhupathi
  • Food
  • Luxury
  • Tour

• If you ever want to eat a tuna sandwich again, don't go to a tuna factory. I visited one where they had two lines: one was the human food line and one was the cat food line - and they didn't look any different.

  

  Mark Mobius
  • Different
  • Food
  • Cat

• The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • People
  • Important
  • Successful

• You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Time
  • School
  • Kids

• There shouldn't be an announcement that divides our food between what tastes good and what is good for us.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Good
  • Food

• Choose to patronise your local farmers; as eaters, you need to demand a different type of food. Appreciate the pigginess of the pig.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • Different
  • Food

• So we got there at 6 a.m. We'd be shooting by 6:45. We wouldn't break for lunch, we'd just pass food around all day. And we would just rock and roll 'til 4, then Matty Libatique, our great cinematographer, would say, 'Outta light, guys' - and that was it.

  

  Joel Schumacher
  • Great
  • Light
  • Rock

• I had a long-lasting love affair with the flavors from Japan and the hustling New York street vendors. And, of course, a life-changing return to Ethiopia has made huge impacts on my life in food.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Life
  • Long
  • Food

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