FOOD QUOTES

• What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
  ~ W. H. Auden ~
• What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.
  ~ Lucretius ~
• God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
  ~ J. G. Holland ~
• Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry.
  ~ Charles Baudelaire ~
• Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
  ~ Charles Baudelaire ~
• Food is meant to be used as fuel for our bodies. If you're using it for any other reasons, take a step back and ask yourself, 'What's up.'
  ~ Jennifer Hudson ~
• A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
  ~ Margaret Mead ~
• Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what we're going to eat is hotly debated.
  ~ Mindy Kaling ~
• It does kids no favors, and sets them up for a potential lifetime of poor health and social embarrassment, to excuse them from family meals of real food. Everyone benefits from healthy eating, but it is particularly crucial at the beginning of life.
  ~ Andrew Weil ~
• It does kids no favors, and sets them up for a potential lifetime of poor health and social embarrassment, to excuse them from family meals of real food. Everyone benefits from healthy eating, but it is particularly crucial at the beginning of life.
  ~ Andrew Weil ~
• Everyone prefers some foods over others, but some adults take this tendency to an extreme. These people tend to prefer the kinds of bland food they may have enjoyed as children - such as plain or buttered pasta, macaroni and cheese, cheese pizza, French fries and grilled cheese sandwiches - and to restrict their eating to just a few dishes.
  ~ Andrew Weil ~
• Clearly, America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well.
  ~ Andrew Weil ~
• Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.
  ~ Andrew Weil ~
• Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.
  ~ Robert Kiyosaki ~
• Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.
  ~ Robert Kiyosaki ~
• You go to a show, and there's no food at all, so if you're doing shows back to back, you can forget eating. I remember standing up in the bath one day, and there was a mirror in front of me, and I was so thin! I hated it. I never liked being that skinny.
  ~ Kate Moss ~
• I love food.
  ~ Amy Winehouse ~
• No matter where I've been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy.
  ~ Carmen Electra ~
• No matter where I've been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy.
  ~ Carmen Electra ~
• I don't think there's going to be a day when I don't think about food or my body, but I'm living with it, and I wish I could tell young girls to find their safe place and stay with it.
  ~ Demi Lovato ~
• Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call a cat, you go, 'Cat, come here.' He doesn't come to you unless you have something in your hand that he thinks might be food. They're very free animals, and I like that.
  ~ Antonio Banderas ~
• Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.
  ~ Morgan Freeman ~
• Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.
  ~ Morgan Freeman ~
• I like being able to walk into an old town and find good local food.
  ~ Sienna Miller ~
• I need my food to keep my energy up, so I can't really diet.
  ~ Sienna Miller ~
• I need my food to keep my energy up, so I can't really diet.
  ~ Sienna Miller ~
• Global trade has advantages. For starters, it allows those of us who live through winter to eat fresh produce year-round. And it provides economic benefits to farmers who grow that food.
  ~ David Suzuki ~
• We must pay greater attention to keeping our bodies and minds healthy and able to heal. Yet we are making it difficult for our defences to work. We allow things to be sold that should not be called food. Many have no nutritive value and lead to obesity, salt imbalance, and allergies.
  ~ David Suzuki ~
• If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.
  ~ Emma Thompson ~
• If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.
  ~ Emma Thompson ~
• Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.
  ~ Xun Zi ~
• Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.
  ~ Xun Zi ~
• Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.
  ~ Xun Zi ~
• So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
  ~ Franz Kafka ~
• So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
  ~ Franz Kafka ~
• My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
  ~ Adam Carolla ~
• I cook a little bit. I make a Hungarian dish called chicken paprikash that's out of this world. I'll give a heads-up to all of your readers that it doesn't have to be between Thai and Mexican every night. Toss some Hungarian in every once in a while. You will not be sorry. Good, solid peasant food.
  ~ Adam Carolla ~
• My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
  ~ Adam Carolla ~
• My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
  ~ Adam Carolla ~
• Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem - high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today's financial difficulties.
  ~ Lucy Powell ~
• Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem - high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today's financial difficulties.
  ~ Lucy Powell ~
• 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 ~
• Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.
  ~ Jack Welch ~
• Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.
  ~ Jack Welch ~
• The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom.
  ~ Shimon Peres ~
• The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom.
  ~ Shimon Peres ~
• I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.
  ~ David Duchovny ~
• I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.
  ~ David Duchovny ~
• 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.
  ~ David Duchovny ~
• I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.
  ~ David Duchovny ~
• Listen - of course money changes everything, but so does sunlight, and so does food: These are powerful but neutral energy sources, neither inherently good nor evil but shaped only by the way we use them.
  ~ Elizabeth Gilbert ~
• I try to eat in a way that makes me feel good. If that means a little bite of chocolate I do that, but I try not to use food as a reward for myself.
  ~ Jennifer Garner ~
• The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'
  ~ Johnny Depp ~
• If I like a food, I'll eat it, even if I know it's not good for me.
  ~ Kim Kardashian ~
• For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.
  ~ Gloria Steinem ~
• To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
  ~ Leo Tolstoy ~
• To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
  ~ Leo Tolstoy ~
• A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
  ~ Leo Tolstoy ~
• To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
  ~ Leo Tolstoy ~
• To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
  ~ Leo Tolstoy ~
• A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
  ~ Leo Tolstoy ~
• To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
  ~ Leo Tolstoy ~
• I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a little bummed out when there is too much fancy stuff going on and it doesn't resemble the original dish at all.
  ~ Drew Barrymore ~
• We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.
  ~ Christina Aguilera ~
• My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.
  ~ David Byrne ~
• The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.
  ~ Dave Barry ~
• Is it a coincidence that in 1998, Barack Obama talks about a majority coalition of welfare recipients and in 2012 we got a record number of Americans on food stamps while he's president? I don't think it's a coincidence.
  ~ Rush Limbaugh ~
• Olympia was a town crawling with music. I was new to the whole punk scene. The culture shock continued Olympia had bagels! We didn't have bagels in Arkansas. You could order vegetarian food all over town! It was so crazy to me - a place with so many vegetarians, the restaurants made special dishes for them?
  ~ Beth Ditto ~
• Olympia was a town crawling with music. I was new to the whole punk scene. The culture shock continued Olympia had bagels! We didn't have bagels in Arkansas. You could order vegetarian food all over town! It was so crazy to me - a place with so many vegetarians, the restaurants made special dishes for them?
  ~ Beth Ditto ~
• I just like food too much, and I don't want to change. I spent so much of childhood trying to change, and I just got sick of it... I don't want to look like Britney Spears, I just don't want to. She's hideous.
  ~ Beth Ditto ~
• I just like food too much, and I don't want to change. I spent so much of childhood trying to change, and I just got sick of it... I don't want to look like Britney Spears, I just don't want to. She's hideous.
  ~ Beth Ditto ~
• Becoming food savvy is one thing, but it's amazing how fast savvy turns to snooty, and snooty leaves you preparing three-hour meals that break your budget and that the kids won't even eat.
  ~ Jeffrey Kluger ~
• Becoming food savvy is one thing, but it's amazing how fast savvy turns to snooty, and snooty leaves you preparing three-hour meals that break your budget and that the kids won't even eat.
  ~ Jeffrey Kluger ~
• Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
  ~ Jim Rohn ~
• I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.
  ~ Jeff Bridges ~
• I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?
  ~ Doug Coupland ~
• It's not difficult for me to stay healthy. I like healthy food.
  ~ Heidi Klum ~
• If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?
  ~ Martin Scorsese ~
• The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.
  ~ Martin Scorsese ~
• Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.
  ~ Martin Scorsese ~
• The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.
  ~ Martin Scorsese ~
• Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
  ~ Tori Amos ~
• The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.
  ~ Woody Allen ~
• I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.
  ~ Woody Allen ~
• Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
  ~ Woody Allen ~
• We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
  ~ Napoleon Hill ~
• Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
  ~ Edmund Burke ~
• We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the 'we' is all of us. It's not the government. It's all of us doing this together.
  ~ Mehmet Oz ~
• Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.
  ~ Mehmet Oz ~
• There are a lot of food Nazis in the U.S., but I believe if you can show people what's really important, they'll judge the rest for themselves.
  ~ Mehmet Oz ~
• Most food you drop is still perfectly edible. If it was in your eyesight the whole time, you can pick it up and eat it.
  ~ Mehmet Oz ~
• Food - I love nuts. I eat them all the time, they're easy to carry around, and I am never hungry all day long.
  ~ Mehmet Oz ~
• Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds.
  ~ Joan Rivers ~
• I like to cook Puerto Rican food. That's what I grew up on: rice, beans, meat, some Italian-American food. I know my way around the kitchen.
  ~ Jennifer Lopez ~
• We created a line of pet food called Nutrish that's made to human standards, and 100 percent of the proceeds go to animal rescue. One of our top-tier donors is the ASPCA, and they help us challenge animal shelters all across the country to get more animals placed in homes.
  ~ Rachael Ray ~
• Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.
  ~ Rachael Ray ~
• My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.
  ~ Rachael Ray ~
• Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.
  ~ Rachael Ray ~
• Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.
  ~ Rachael Ray ~
• My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.
  ~ Rachael Ray ~