Quotes on food

They did interviews with my wife and daughter-they were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack, working 20 hours a day, eating fast food.

Author: Willie Aames

Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate.

Author: Jack Adams

Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got raw materials and then we got tool machines, let's say, instruments for working.

Author: Gianni Agnelli

If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.

Author: Shmuel Agnon

Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food.

Author: Steve Albini

I will continue to distribute blankets, sleeping bags, warm clothing and food on a regular basis, in the hope that my modest efforts will give some comfort to those people we are able help.

Author: Mohamed Al-Fayed

Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.

Author: Ted Allen

I went in saying I wanted to be the food guy.

Author: Ted Allen

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.

Author: Woody Allen

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Author: Woody Allen

The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.

Author: Woody Allen

I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can.

Author: Eric Allman

I saw 'Food, Inc.' last night - it was like a horror movie. I'm definitely thinking about my food supply now and how I want to grow my own.

Author: Lauren Ambrose

Everything is just better in California - the wine, the food, fruits and vegetables, the comforts of living. Even the instrumentalists are generous and curious. Everything is wonderful.

Author: Beth Anderson

But my answer to that question would have to be, aside from the obvious, which is the people and the relationships that you garner over a long period of time but the catering. The catering. They're the best. So it's the food.

Author: Richard Anderson

We're the biggest food and agriculture company in the world.

Author: Dwayne Andreas

I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.

Author: Ursula Andress

The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.

Author: Mary Antin

It's my first presenting role so I'll be nervous, but it's going to be great fun. I can't wait to sample the food and meet the celebrities. Hopefully I can inject some of my own glamour.

Author: Nicole Appleton

We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come and to which we will then be able to provide food and water and medical help.

Author: Les Aspin

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.

Author: Paul Auster

While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.

Author: Alan Autry

I never found either this or the Northern Shrike return to such prey for food. I have seen them alight on the same thorn bush afterwards, but never made any use of this kind of food.

Author: John Bachman

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

Author: Walter Bagehot

I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever.

Author: Colin Baker

For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.

Author: William Banting

If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.

Author: Neal Barnard

I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends.

Author: Syd Barrett

Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.

Author: William Bartram

They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.

Author: Luigi Barzini

Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before.

Author: Luigi Barzini

The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.

Author: Mario Batali

We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.

Author: Mario Batali

There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria.

Author: Mario Batali

In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted.

Author: Mario Batali

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.

Author: Mary Bateson

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

Author: Charles Baudelaire

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

Author: Brendan Behan

I've been very lucky in the characters I've chosen. Up until last year I was a nobody. I did jobs I booked because I needed to put food in my mouth.

Author: Kristen Bell

UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists.

Author: Carol Bellamy

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

Author: Sarah Bernhardt

Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community.

Author: Rod Blagojevich

Initially charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest I was held for 36 hours, was beaten by cops and made to stand spread eagled against the cell wall for 12 hours with no food or water, until I collapsed. Everyone was strip searched on the way in.

Author: John Blair

I woke up find a rather noisy multi-lingual meeting going on. This was great as everyone could participate and even though everything had to be translated into about four different languages it never became boring. After a while the meeting broke up and everyone went for food.

Author: John Blair

I don't enjoy traveling in America. I don't like the food, the cars. It is not exotic enough. It all tastes a bit like airline food.

Author: Carla Bley

In our short walks we passed the kitchen where food was prepared for the nurses and doctors. There we got glimpses of melons and grapes and all kinds of fruits, beautiful white bread and nice meats, and the hungry feeling would be increased tenfold.

Author: Nellie Bly

Never order food in excess of your body weight.

Author: Erma Bombeck

Relief organizations both large and small are coordinating deliveries of food, clothing, water, and other basic necessities to those impacted by Katrina.

Author: Jo Bonner

Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.

Author: Norman Borlaug

Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.

Author: Norman Borlaug

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.

Author: Norman Borlaug

Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.

Author: Norman Borlaug

Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.

Author: Norman Borlaug

Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.

Author: Norman Borlaug

I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front.

Author: Norman Borlaug

The prejudice was so bad in the United States at that time that a dark person with a white person would not be served in a restaurant. My father, mother, and I would try it occasionally. We would sit there, and the food would never come.

Author: Amar Bose

The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.

Author: Amar Bose

When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.

Author: Barbara Boxer

The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.

Author: Ed Bradley

I could talk food all day. I love good food.

Author: Tom Brady

My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread - works all the time. I think I've been eating pasta for 26 years.

Author: Tom Brady

The future of our nation depends on our ability to produce food and fiber to sustain the world.

Author: Phil Bredesen

There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford.

Author: Sydney Brenner

My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a tornado hit it and then she'd come out with the best food. Then she'd sit at the table and she wouldn't eat!

Author: Edie Brickell

Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food.

Author: Poppy Brite

Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.

Author: Poppy Brite

I like visiting people's homes on Saint Joseph's Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint, and invite the public - I enjoy that much more than Mardi Gras.

Author: Poppy Brite

A lot of food shows need only to tempt. Some food shows only need to inspire, to empower. And there are a lot of shows that do that.

Author: Alton Brown

We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able to fend for themselves with the investment that is necessary in their agriculture, so that Africa is not a net importer of food, but an exporter of food.

Author: Gordon Brown

When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides?

Author: Jerry Brown

Debbie Gibson and dog food. I've always dreamed of this.

Author: Julie Brown

The thing about being in America is when you are driving with the sun on your back, there's hip hop. I never used to be into hip hop, but there's hip hop in the food, soul food, there's hip hop in the cars.

Author: Vanessa Brown

The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer and assures fair trading practices in food.

Author: Gro Brundtland

Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children.

Author: Gro Brundtland

I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so.

Author: Peabo Bryson

The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.

Author: Pat Buchanan

I love shopping, especially food shopping.

Author: Emma Bunton

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

Author: Luther Burbank

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

Author: Edmund Burke

But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.

Author: Carol Burnett

Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that's it.

Author: Ellen Burstyn

How is it that mercury is not safe for food additives and Over the Counter drug products, but it is safe in our vaccines and dental amalgams?

Author: Dan Burton

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.

Author: Joseph Butler

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

Author: David Byrne

Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent upon the defence of their country, and on the means of plunder, are wholly employed in the care of their horses and furniture.

Author: Giraldus Cambrensis

Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian.

Author: Kirk Cameron

I've talked to some drummers who seem to have a very hard time staying in shape on the road, including some drummers touring with high-profile acts that don't have to live on fast food every night.

Author: Matt Cameron

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

Author: Elias Canetti

We cover hamburgers, chicken, veggie burgers, salads, we've got a pretty broad range. To me, McDonald's isn't only about the food. It's about the prices, it's about the way we eat.

Author: Jim Cantalupo

The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the invention of the Malthusian theory of population.

Author: Henry Carey

Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.

Author: Vanessa Carlton

I love good food but I follow strict rules the days I perform.

Author: Jose Carreras

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

Author: Johnny Carson

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.

Author: Giacomo Casanova

I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.

Author: Giacomo Casanova

In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors'.

Author: Emanuel Celler

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

Author: Raymond Chandler

As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay.

Author: Michael Chang

It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.

Author: Ralph Chaplin

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.

Author: Ray Charles

If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.

Author: Cesar Chavez

You start making movies and people start seeing when you go to places, and all of a sudden you are getting clothes for free and all of a sudden you are getting food for free.

Author: Morris Chestnut

There were different challenges along the way. Certainly the food shortage was unpleasant.

Author: Leroy Chiao

Most of the food imported to Russia came from China.

Author: Alex Chiu

I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting.

Author: Anna Chlumsky

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Author: Marcus Cicero

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

Author: Marcus Cicero

Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.

Author: Frank Clark

If I can wake up everyday before I die and know that I don't have to serve anyone food or drinks, I will be happy!

Author: Kelly Clarkson

I live in a kind of gay bubble. I live in a gay house, I drive a gay car. I eat gay food.

Author: Julian Clary

The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years.

Author: Tom Coburn

I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.

Author: Ornette Coleman

When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food.

Author: Phil Collins

As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.

Author: Barry Commoner

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.

Author: Cyril Connolly

Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

Author: Mason Cooley

We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn't speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food.

Author: Francis Coppola

One of the glories of New York is its ethnic food, and only McDonald's and Burger King equalize us all.

Author: John Corry

Anyway, I lived on the streets and did pretty good until I got caught stealing, what was it? I kicked in a restaurant window, went in and took all the food that I wanted, and while coming out I was grabbed.

Author: Gregory Corso

There are apothecaries' shops, where prepared medicines, liquids, ointments, and plasters are sold; barbers' shops, where they wash and shave the head; and restaurateurs, that furnish food and drink at a certain price.

Author: Hernando Cortes

I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?

Author: Doug Coupland

When once an Indian sees that his food is secure, he does not care what the chief or any one else says.

Author: George Crook

I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.

Author: Warren Cuccurullo

The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.

Author: Edward Dahlberg

Everyone would talk about their diets and working out and what it made me do was go to craft services where all the food for the cast and crew was and I would eat.

Author: Kristin Davis

Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.

Author: Sammy Davis, Jr.

You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for.

Author: Christopher Dawson

Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.

Author: Dorothy Day

If a State has reliable scientific information that demonstrates that a warning is needed for a particular food, then in the interest of public health, it should share that information with the FDA and petition for a new national standard.

Author: Nathan Deal

I think I was immediately fed, so food became a very important part of my life.

Author: Dom DeLuise

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'

Author: Johnny Depp

One has got to choose between the two evils, also between the lesser of the two evils in the matter of food, and therefore vegetarian food has got to he taken by man in order to sustain human life.

Author: Morarji Desai

I can spend hours in a grocery store. I get so excited when I see food, I go crazy. I spend hours arranging my baskets so that everything fits in and nothing gets squashed. I'm really anal about it, actually.

Author: Cameron Diaz

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Author: Emily Dickinson

Talking up a storm about food is so easy for me, it's second nature.

Author: Rocco DiSpirito

Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position.

Author: Rocco DiSpirito

I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste.

Author: Rocco DiSpirito

It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.

Author: Christopher Dodd

If you go out to dinner with someone, you find out what they prefer in food. We ought to be able to have a conversation to find out what people prefer when it comes to sex.

Author: Betty Dodson

Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic.

Author: James Douglas

You're raising a kid and you give it food and shelter and, most importantly, you give it the feeling that it's special. I think people react to celebrities like that - I mean, they treat celebrities like children.

Author: David Duchovny

You know, nobody eats in England. Three or four pints of English beer a night fills you. I can't say I'm very impressed with the food in America. it's all sort of bland. Like turkey sandwiches.

Author: Anne Dudley

Kolkata is a great city, has great food and great people. We had some problems finding the kind of old buildings we were looking for, and even handling the crowds, but on the whole it was fun shooting there.

Author: Sanjay Dutt

It's like spicy food - sometimes you have to tone it down so more people can enjoy it.

Author: Kenneth Edmonds

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.

Author: Elizabeth Edwards

I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing.

Author: Andrew Eldritch

No matter where I've been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy.

Author: Carmen Electra

Food is a passion. Food is love.

Author: Hector Elizondo

With rising incomes, the share of expenditures for food products declines. The resulting shift in expenditures affects demand patterns and employment structures.

Author: Ernst Engel

Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.

Author: Joseph Epstein