Food In Quotes

#1. I don't understand why people expect tips. In hotels you order food in your room, and it's already more expensive from the room service menu, so it's a cheek to expect a tip on top. I do sometimes reward good service, but it should be at my discretion, and I'm not going to be held to ransom.

Bernard Hill

#2. To me when a mother puts food in a microwave for her children, it is an act of hate

Raymond Blanc

#3. My mother is not smiling; Chinese do not smile for photographs. Their faces command relatives in foreign lands - 'Send money' - and prosperity for ever - 'Put food in front of this picture.' My mother does not understand Chinese- American snapshots. 'What are you laughing at?' she asks. (1983: 58)

Maxine Hong Kingston

#4. When you're out grocery shopping for your family, maybe you can put a can of cat or dog food in your cart and bring it to an animal relief center.

Rachael Ray

#5. Dogs will eat till they die. Cats will leave food in the dish, incomprehensible to a dog.

Tim Allen

#6. I suppose there won't be any Mexican food in the whites-only homeland,' I said.
Hm, I'd never thought of that possibility' Jerry said. He paused. 'They wouldn't be allowed to vote but they could cook and clean for us. Afterall, we're not extremists.

Louis Theroux

#7. I walked around my apartment with food in my mouth asking myself: "How do I come up with this voice?" Then I found the voice. I called the director and said on the phone: "Guess who you're talking to Chris? Sid, that's right Sid!" And that's how I came up with the voice. That's a true story.

John Leguizamo

#8. I was becoming too dependent on female attention, allowing it to be my sole reason for leaving the house besides food. In the process of dehumanizing the opposite sex, I had also been dehumanizing myself.

Neil Strauss

#9. If you have food in your jaws you have solved all questions for the time being.

Franz Kafka

#10. A friend once told me that when you've been in AA, drinking is never fun again. And that's how I feel about having seen a nutritionist - I will never again approach food in an unbridled, guilt-free way.

Lena Dunham

#11. If somebody has a chance to put my food in their mouth, that tells the story.

Emeril Lagasse

#12. Stuffing is my favorite food in the world! I actually have been known to go buy stuffing and make it in the middle of summer.

Emma Roberts

#13. GMOs are found in nearly 80% of processed food in the United States. Currently, up to 92% of U.S. corn is consumed what are you eating GMO with zoe lister-jonesgenetically engineered, as are 94% of soybeans and 94% of cotton. In short, they are everywhere.

Zoe Lister-Jones

#14. Vegan food is soul food in its truest form. Soul food means to feed the soul. And, to me, your soul is your intent. If your intent is pure, you are pure.

Erykah Badu

#15. Never order food in excess of your body weight.

Erma Bombeck

#16. There were drinks and food in full force, and some Moroi guy had a guitar out and was trying to impress girls with his musical skills - which were nonexistent. In fact, his music was so awful that he might have discovered a new way to kill Strigoi.

Richelle Mead

#17. Mercy Corps' partnership with The Hunger Site translates into lifesaving assistance for people in tremendous need around the world. When you visit, click, and shop at this unique site, you're making the future a little brighter for families who need food in the world's poorest places.

Dan O'Neill

#18. Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.

Rafael Nadal

#19. I need to smell its smells, to hear its sounds, to see food in a pot that simmers, bubbles, sizzles. I enjoy the physical involvement of stirring, turning, poking, mashing, scraping.

Marcella Hazan

#20. There's more food in one bottle of beer, me lad, than twenty sandwiches.

Roald Dahl

#21. I was a really picky eater as a child. Because I was obsessed by Popeye, my mum and aunts would put my food in a can to represent spinach and we'd hum the Popeye tune and then I'd happily eat it.

Paul O'Grady

#22. To sit at a table with nourishing food in front of you and the people you love all around you yet not feel thankful reveals not only a lack of self worth but a certain degree of foolishness as well.

Kurt Michael Friese

#23. Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories. It's about sharing. It's about honesty. It's about identity.

Louise Fresco

#24. To ask a country with 750 million people living on less than a dollar a day to optimize their development for the environment as opposed to getting food in the mouths of these people and giving them a decent lifestyle, that's just a little bit too much to ask.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

#25. No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately, it's fast food in the music industry. People don't ingest full records anymore.

Tommy Lee

#26. If you are mindful, you can eat the bread and the bread represents the whole cosmos ... You set the table, you lay the food in the presence of God. Mindfulness is the awareness that shines on every act in every moment.

Gustav Niebuhr

#27. I don't like to generalize but I've had nothing but bad experiences with Mexican food in Europe.

Ezra Koenig

#28. How did he keep playing when money got
really tight, and there was no more food in the house? How did he play on when it became clear he was flunking out of school? Was music really enough when the whole world seemed to be collapsing around him? Or was it just the only thing left?

Antony John

#29. I am from Spain, but my family and I have made America our home. For the last 17 years, I have been cooking Spanish food in Washington, D.C.

Jose Andres

#30. There's sure no passion in the human soul, But finds its food in music.

George Lillo

#31. The God which cannot give me food in this world, cannot give me Heaven in the other world

Swami Vivekananda

#32. Whatever parent gives his children good instruction and sets them at the same time a bad example, may be considered as bringing them food in one hand and poison in the other.

John Balguy

#33. Prepare your food in keeping with monastic traditions - simple, basic, healthy, balanced.

Mary DeTurris Poust

#34. I've never had food in my fridge. All I have in my fridge is one shelf of Canada Dry ginger ale, Diet Cokes on the next shelf, and ZeroWater on the next shelf. That is it.

Brigid Berlin

#35. If the first bite is with the eye and the second with the nose, some people will never take that third, actual bite if the food in question smells too fishy, fermented or cheesy.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#36. The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It's eclectic but above all it's fresh, inventive and creative and that's what I love about it.

Baz Luhrmann

#37. There is more food in a pennyworth of bread than in a gallon of ale.

Joseph Livesey

#38. Everyone seemed to be deliberately not looking at her, the way people did when you had food in your teeth and they didn't want to tell you, so they kept trying not to see.

Liane Moriarty

#39. Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.

Michael Broadbent

#40. My son would walk to the refrigerator-freezer and fling both doors open and stand there until the hairs in his nose iced up. After surveying $200 worth of food in varying shapes and forms, he would declare loudly, 'There's nothing to eat!'

Erma Bombeck

#41. If you have a significant layer of fat around your waist, it means you have regularly consumed food in response to toxic hunger or have eaten recreationally. The body does not store large amounts of fat when fed a wholesome natural diet and given only the amount of food demanded by true hunger.

Joel Fuhrman

#42. I grew up with fantastic Southern food. In Southern California.

Nora Ephron

#43. There were two Irishmen eating sandwiches in a pub and the landlord said: "You can't eat your own food in here." So they swapped sandwiches.

Frank Carson

#44. We cannot hate truth in general, all truth, as we cannot hate food in general, all food. But we can hate a particular truth even though it is good for us, as we can hate a particular food even though it is good for us:

Peter Kreeft

#45. The fact is that there is enough food in the world for everyone. But tragically, much of the world's food and land resources are tied up in producing beef and other livestock-food for the well off-while millions of children and adults suffer from malnutrition and starvation.

Walden Bello

#46. All of us together were of a generation born of old country people who spoke English with an accent and prayed in another language, who drank red wine and cooked their food in the old country way, and peeled apples and pears after dinner.

Robert Laxalt

#47. Hong Kong and Macau are both very dynamic cities. I am always inspired about the culture, people and food in these two cities. There is always so much to do and so much to explore!

David Beckham

#48. We want a better America, an America that will give its citizens, first of all, a higher and higher standard of living so that no child will cry for food in the midst of plenty.

Sidney Hillman

#49. We may eat dinner together, but everyone puts the food in his own mouth.

Mason Cooley

#50. I think the evil is in the food, in the noise, in the crowding, in the stress, in the water, in the air.

Edward Abbey

#51. One of the things I fucking hate about my fellow Americans: whenever they fly to a foreign country, first thing they do, they try to find as much of America as they can get their hands on, even if it's food in the shitty cafeteria.

Marlon James

#52. Food in the trash is like the tossed-and-found.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#53. Oh yes, there's lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us.

Anthony Bourdain

#54. People are not hungry because there is no food in the world. There is plenty of it; there is a surplus in fact. But between those who want to eat and the bursting warehouses stands a tall obstacle indeed: politics.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

#55. I'm on the mirror diet. You eat all your food in front of a mirror in the nude. It works pretty good, though some of the fancier restaurants don't go for it.

Roseanne Barr

#56. Greed is bad because it's like unassimilated food in our system. If we eat more than our body requires, it will lead us to indigestion.

Hina Hashmi

#57. My mother taught us to sell food in the market so we could pay for school. I would get up at 4:30 A.M. and start selling bread and cheese before going to class. School cost $65. The average salary was $125 a year, and with 10 kids, how are you going to pay for that?

Dikembe Mutombo

#58. A man's got to take care of his family. You live in my house, you sleep your behind on my bedclothes, you put my food in your belly because you are my son; you are my flesh and blood, not because I like you. It is my duty to take care of you. I owe a responsibility to you.

James Earl Jones

#59. My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.

Nana Mouskouri

#60. I like to put good food in my mouth, and while I am aware of the calories I ingest, instead of cutting them I make them count. I have a full-on love affair with food, appreciating the different cultures and processes within it.

Brittany Gibbons

#61. There's two kinds of folk in the world, just like there's two kinds of life in a seed. Something sends one kind up to hunt its food in the light and air, and sends the other kind down into the earth to make the roots.

Pearl S. Buck

#62. True, most married men are convinced that their lives are dedicated to the family, and from a material standpoint this might be true. But it takes more than food in the fridge and two cars in the garage to keep a family going.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#63. I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.

Daniel Gillies

#64. My life was in Montreal years ago. Best food in the world.

Don Rickles

#65. I am confident that we will see a growing consensus about the most effective way to transform food in America: building a real, sustainable and free school-lunch program.

Alice Waters

#66. The many species of shark hunting for food in the seawater immediately south of New Orleans that morning which was individually particular morning had a feeding frenzy, until they finally drifted away, fully replete, into their own space within the deeper waters of the Gulf.

Ian McKenzie-Vincent

#67. People are always asking me what the world will be like economically in the year 2000. I do know this: in the year 2000, no matter what else happens, there will still be good food in France.

Guy De Rothschild

#68. I grew up in a very modest home. We grew a lot of our food in our backyard. We fished; my brothers hunted.

Martha Stewart

#69. If I don't get food in my mouth, I'm still happy. If my pants are round my ankles, as long as I don't get arrested for indecent exposure, I'm happy. I'm worried about keeping my hair, not how it's combed.

Michael J. Fox

#70. Morgan was looking at the food in front of her suspiciously, as if it intended to merely reside for a bit inside her, then liberate itself at a most inconvenient time.

Lynn Kurland

#71. To me, what I'm interested in, in the end, is the meaning of food in our lives.

Jose Andres

#72. Listen, the Latin people, I love the Latin people. They are so loyal to you. Even if you haven't been on TV for thirty years, they still love you. And they cherish you and give you respect. You're not fast food in the Latin market.

Erik Estrada

#73. It has been said that sometimes we need a story more than food in order to live.
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Rachel Naomi Remen

#74. The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self- education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#75. All my jobs have been with food in one way or another since 1948. My parents were in the hotel business, and I just loved the warm hearted people who worked so hard with such good humor.

Graham Kerr

#76. I am very concerned about junk food in the schools.

Teresa Heinz

#77. The food in the House of Commons is fairly good. The cafe in Portcullis House is really very high quality, and you also have a choice of eating in the more traditional restaurants, the Churchill Room or the Members' Dining Room. I don't often eat in them, though, as I'm usually on the run.

Vince Cable

#78. I'd rather have Daniel Boulud have 20 restaurants than some restauranteur. It's going to make the food in our country better.

Michael Mina

#79. One of the benefits to ordering food in New York is that you can get food 24/7.

David Chang

#80. I need a night out away from crayon drawings on the wall, mushed food in the carpets, and poo-splosions in nappies.

K.M. Golland

#81. I knew what I was getting into: 72-ounce steaks, shakes by the quart, atomic wings. When I landed 'Man v. Food' in 2008, I accepted the fact that my weight would fluctuate. But instead of stressing about the scale, I made my long-term health a primary concern.

Adam Richman

#82. I guess I've always been kind of obsessed with food. I always liked drawing food, and I always liked stories - I think I probably just read somewhere that stories are better if someone's eating in them. I don't know where that came from, but it really stuck, and I always try to put food in.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

#83. A generation ago, three-quarters of the money used to buy food in the United States was spent to prepare meals at home. Today about half of the money used to buy food is spent at restaurants
mainly at fast food restaurants.

Eric Schlosser

#84. If someone says they shouldn't have to follow regulations because they're making food in their home, I'd say, 'Why is your home so safe that it doesn't need that level of oversight and control?'

Robert Sutton Harrington

#85. I was in a weight-cutting sport, in judo, so I had to be a certain weight on a deadline. It kind of pushed me into having a really unhealthy relationship with food in my teens. I felt like if I wasn't exactly on weight, I wasn't good-looking.

Ronda Rousey

#86. Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

Peter De Vries

#87. Children are amazingly adaptable. What would be grotesquely abnormal became my normality in the prisoner of war camps. It became routine for me to line up three times a day to eat lousy food in a noisy mess hall. It became normal for me to go with my father to bathe in a mass shower.

George Takei

#88. My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats.

Kenny Loggins

#89. When you consume more food in one meal than a village of people eat in a day something is wrong

Stanley Victor Paskavich

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

Poppy Z. Brite

#91. Keeping some calorie-dense food in your diet-whether it is meat, pasta, beer, or cake-allows you to reach satiety more quickly and easily. And this will keep you from feeling deprived.

Mark Bittman

#92. I have another proof that we're going to have food in Heaven! And man did eat angel's food.-Manna! So angels can eat food!

David Berg

#93. 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.

Kristen Bell

#94. Whenever I see people with their collars up, I'm tempted to point it out to them like you would for someone who has a food stain on their shirt or food in their teeth, as if to say, 'Your fashion sense is so offensive I'm assuming it's some sort of accident you'll want to fix.

Stephan Pastis

#95. Food in wartime Britain, she had to admit, was hardly inspiring.

Sara Sheridan

#96. The food in Europe is pretty disappointing. I like fried chicken. But other than that Europe is great.

Donnie Wahlberg

#97. In Paris and later in Marseille, I was surrounded by some of the best food in the world, and I had an enthusiastic audience in my husband, so it seemed only logical that I should learn how to cook 'la cuisine bourgeoise' - good, traditional French home cooking.

Julia Child

#98. I ate fantastic Italian food in Croatia, which you wouldn't expect. The food in Istanbul was amazing. I never would've expected that and the food, I guess you're learning something about me, the food in Prague, they're very, very heavy meat eaters, like, a lot of meat, which is great.

Cliff Curtis

#99. All chefs have pictures of food in their phones, stuffed pig's ears and pigs' heads and the like.

April Bloomfield

#100. All I really need is a song in my heart, food in my belly, and love in my family.

Raffi