Top 100 Food Is Quotes
#2. Technological innovation has done great damage ... to eating habits. Food is now available in such unpleasant forms that one frequently finds smoking between courses to be an aid to digestion.
Fran Lebowitz
#3. Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure. Why resist that?
Barbara Kingsolver
#6. The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
Patrick Kavanagh
#7. I grew up in Austria, and for me real comfort food is Wiener Schnitzel. Wiener Schnitzel and mashed potatoes because it reminds me of my youth ... It reminds me when I grow up and it feels very comforting.
Wolfgang Puck
#8. Peace begins in the kitchens and pantries, gardens and backyards, where our food is grown and prepared. The energies of nature and the infinite universe are absorbed through the foods we eat and are transmuted into our thoughts and actions.
Michio Kushi
#9. Our food is safer and our diets are more diverse than ever before; production methods are becoming increasingly sustainable, clean and efficient; and we are constantly becoming better at protecting biodiversity.
Louise Fresco
#11. Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds.
Joan Rivers
#12. The only thing I hate is when bad food is paraded as something great, and people are charging a lot for it.
Danny Meyer
#13. 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.
Norman Borlaug
#14. Our ancestors relied upon their advanced brains to survive during times of food shortage, and fortunately, the human brain is able to utilize body fat as an extremely efficient fuel to sustain function when glucose-providing food is unavailable.
David Perlmutter
#15. Well, you know, for me, I think Spanish food is festive.
Jose Garces
#16. Food is the supremest of pleasures.
Fay Weldon
#17. One of the effects of cheap food is, we have food that is so unsatisfactory. We need to go back to flavor.
Ruth Reichl
#18. Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
Edmund Burke
#19. Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially
romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory.
Chris Bohjalian
#20. I love fresh fruit and vegetables. I'm not a strict dieter. I don't think that anything in life should be so regimented that you're not having fun or can't enjoy like everybody else. Just know that fresh food is always going to be better for you.
Carrie Ann Inaba
#21. Los Angeles is such a widespread city, sometimes it's hard to see your friends, and food is a great way to get together - it's a great way of giving love.
Sofia Milos
#22. When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and are bombarded with latest gadgets. Things replace parental standards.
Diane Abbott
#23. For me, food is all about balance. If you eat plenty of fruits, vegetables, and an appropriate amount of poultry, fish, and red meat that are sourced from good places, you're doing well. It's important to make sure that the meat you're consuming is hormone-free.
Curtis Stone
#26. It's woman's power, food is. You be sure you know where'n the hook is before swallerin' it, Dru. You mind me, now.
Lili St. Crow
#27. Food is a gift of God given to all creatures for the purposes of life's nurture, sharing, and celebration. When it is done in the name of God, eating is the earthly realization of God's eternal communion-building love.
Norman Wirzba
#28. Food is the essential thing to gaining weight. Protein, you know, that's basically it - protein.
Manu Bennett
#29. Later I had to raise the baby rats she ate, and why I thought one creature was my beloved pet while the other creatures were food is still a mystery to me. That was my first clue that love can warp a hierarchy; the whole pyramid got flipped on its head.
Karen Russell
#30. Food is a passion because I basically grew up in a kitchen. My mother was a gourmet chef and I'm the youngest of five kids. We would always congregate in the kitchen.
Laura Prepon
#31. I went to Brazil in 2010 and pretty much did songs about that trip. I was there just to hang out, chill with the people, and feel the vibe. It was great - tons of great women, great skin, good beaches. Can't complain; the food is great.
Theophilus London
#32. I am content in bachelor life, but at moments like this, I admit to old-fashioned sexist longing. Sometimes I cook up comfort food, but cooking your own comfort food is akin to scratching your own back. Same sensation, less watts.
Michael Perry
#33. I always find time to hang with friends at least once a week or just watch TV and play video games. The combination of Netflix and food is just the best.
Keiynan Lonsdale
#34. If you say you are the Safe Food Foundation, that means you're implying that your food is safer or that every other bit of food that we're eating is not safe. If they were a really honest foundation, they would call themselves the anti-GM foundation.
Barry Marshall
#35. Food is a big part of my culture, so everyone knows how to cook. When I came to America and asked a babysitter to softboil an egg for my son and she didn't know how, I was shocked.
Isabella Rossellini
#36. The point about food is that a lot of it used to be left-overs and recycling.
Jeanette Winterson
#37. My favorite sport is female and my favorite food is beer.
Glen Cook
#38. Real food doesn't have ingredients, real food is
ingredients.
Jamie Oliver
#39. Let's keep the chemists over here and the food over here, that's my feeling. What do I know? But that is a big aspect of fast food is their ability to artificially taint the colors and the smells and stuff to stimulate appetite.
Greg Kinnear
#40. Food is all about balance; it is all about taste.
Michael Mina
#41. Without Laura here, food is the only thing I love that loves me back.
Rachel Cohn
#42. The real junk food is what Frank Lloyd Wright called light entertainment - bubblegum for the eye ...
John Geddes
#43. In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a disadvantage in proportion to the higher rate of his food.
Joseph Hume
#44. The demand for organic food is growing at a remarkable rate. Consumers have made it clear that they want organic produce and every sector of the food chain is responding, with the kind of results we have just seen.
Prince Charles
#45. Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
Kate Christensen
#46. Latin food is my guiltiest pleasure and my demise. My trainer hates when I go home to visit my mom and her cooking.
Zulay Henao
#47. I'm a health-food junkie, so all of my food is a splurge, money-wise!
Zoe Lister-Jones
#48. People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.
Michael Pollan
#49. You have increasing poverty and increasing wealth. Fine food is one way to dispense with a lot of money ... It's understanding that our daily choices about food connect us to a worldwide economic system. And that economic system - not scarcity - creates worldwide hunger for millions of people.
Frances Moore Lappe
#50. Fresh food is a luxury everyone can afford.
David Moyer
#51. The mental disposition of the one who prepares the food is transmitted to all those who consume it. Therefore, as far as possible the mothers should do the cooking for the entire family. If it is done while chanting the mantra, the food will benefit everyone in a spiritual way.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#52. Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost.
Phil McGraw
#53. Food is a wonderful source of pleasure - but it will get you into trouble if it's the only source of pleasure you have in your life.
Linda Bacon
#54. In the South, the food is outstanding. Down south, we eat to get full, and the people up north, they don't do that.
Frank Thomas
#55. In the first century A.D., Pliny estimated that the average Roman citizen consumed only 25 grams of salt a day. The modern American consumes even less if the salt content of packaged food is not included.
Mark Kurlansky
#56. Every believer may not be called to preach, but every Christian is called to pray. Prayer is our duty. Prayer is our privilege. Prayer, like air, water and food, is necessary for our survival and growth. But many believers regard prayer as an optional activity.
Larry Lea
#57. When I travel, there are no rules with my diet. I eat whatever looks good, but in small portions. Food is such a rich part of the travel experience. There is no way I would cut that out!
Zoe McLellan
#58. Honestly, I just assume that whatever is going to happen to me is going to happen. There it goes: someone is there, someone isn't there. This girl is here. This food is here. I think the clever people are the ones who do a little as possible.
Kevin Ayers
#59. Just because food is served fast doesn't mean it has to be made with cheap raw ingredients, highly processed with preservatives and fillers and stabilizers and artificial colors and flavors.
Steve Ells
#60. If you're concerned about your health, you should probably avoid products that make health claims. Why? Because a health claim on a food product is a strong indication it's not really food, and food is what you want to eat
Michael Pollan
#61. I can't do it. It would be like, say, trying to fall in love with somebody, or trying to convince yourself that your favorite food is pancakes. You don't decide those things, they just happen to you. If God is real, He needs to happen to me.
Donald Miller
#62. 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.
William Banting
#63. Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry.
Pope Francis
#64. Everything can be brought to the extreme. Food is good, overeating is bad. Possessions are good, hoarding is bad. Guilt is good, obsessing about guilt is bad. But I think guilt is good because I'm like, "Hey, I just stabbed that guy and I feel pretty good."
Lino Rulli
#65. Food is much better off the hand than the fork.
Mario Batali
#66. No, the founders of our culture didn't just fall into a lifestyle of total dependence on agriculture, they had to whip themselves into it, and the whip they used was this meme: Growing all your own food is the best way to live. Nothing less could imaginably have done this amazing trick.
Daniel Quinn
#67. Fast sex, like fast food, is cheap, but it doesn't nourish the body - or the soul.
Suzanne Fields
#68. I know well the delectable thrill of moving into a new house somewhere altogether else, in somebody else's county, where the climate is different, the food is different, the light is different, where the mundane preoccupations of life at home don't seem to apply and it is even fun to go shopping.
Jan Morris
#69. Cloud root beer floats and moon grilled cheeses. But their favorite food is stardust.
Michelle Cuevas
#70. Self-esteem is as necessary to the spirit as food is to the body.
Maxwell Maltz
#71. Food is my thing, I do not smoke or drink, so food is my vice.
Kathy Griffin
#72. Indian junk food is my sin, even though I pretend to like Japanese.
Sonam Kapoor
#73. 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
#74. Here are a few things I've learned from Albert
1. Any food is fair game until it is actually swallowed by someone else.
2. Take a nap whenever you can.
3. Don't bark unless it's important.
4. Chasing one's tail is sometimes unavoidable.
Lisa Kleypas
#75. I'm a simple cook, and there's a lot I don't eat. But food is important. It translates so easily into pleasure.
Mona Simpson
#76. We do not mark out any precise line to be followed in diet; but we do say that in countries where there are fruits, grains, and nuts in abundance, flesh food is not the right food for God's people.
Ellen G. White
#77. Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom.
Michael Pollan
#78. Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.
L'Wren Scott
#79. The Specters feast as vampires feast on blood, but the Specters' food is attention. A conscious and informed interest in the world. The immaturity of children is less attractive to them.
Philip Pullman
#80. I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you're hungry for power.
Dick Cavett
#82. Not every breakfast needs to be something worthy of posting to a food blog. Sometimes food is simply fuel, something we eat to live. But with TV ads and billboards and in-store displays saying otherwise - in colorful and provocative ways - that can be a hard case to make.
Mary DeTurris Poust
#83. How we treat food is how we treat ourselves. Eating and buying organic means we're committed to a healthier world overall. It's good karma.
Jason Mraz
#84. Your relationship to food is but a reflection of your relationship to yourself, as is everything in your life.
Marianne Williamson
#85. The demand for beef in Canada remains strong because I think people in America, in North America, know that we have a very strong food safety system and that our food is safe to eat.
Ann Veneman
#86. It is as if a wolf devoured a sheep and the sheep were so powerful that it transformed the wolf and turned him into a sheep. So, when we eat Christ's flesh physically and spiritually, the food is so powerful that it transforms us.
Martin Luther
#87. Nutrition is the only remedy that can bring full recovery and can be used with any treatment. Remember, food is our best medicine!
Bernard Jensen
#88. Fat people know the consequences of eating, but if the food is good enough, they just don't care.
Jim Gaffigan
#89. In this era of tightening world food supplies, the ability to grow food is fast becoming a new form of geopolitical leverage. Food is the new oil. Land is the new gold.
Lester R. Brown
#90. Boys are cute, but food is cuter
Tori Amos
#91. Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food is low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured.
Yann Martel
#92. Food is an implement of magic, and only the most coldhearted rationalist could squeeze the juices of life out of it and make it bland. In a true sense, a cookbook is the best source of psychological advice and the kitchen the first choice of room for a therapy of the world.
Thomas More
#93. I don't want my children to ever think that food is taboo.
Karen Elson
#94. Food is medicine. We can actually change our gene expressions with the foods we eat.
David Perlmutter
#95. Feelings are for the soul what food is for the body.
Rudolf Steiner
#96. What I've learned is I want to enjoy my life, and food is a big part of it.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#97. A safe, affordable and plentiful supply of food is a national security issue.
Doug Ose
#99. Food is life, life is food. If you don't like my approach you are welcome to go down to McDonalds.
Keith Floyd
#100. I'd like to avoid the environmental apocalypse if I could. Zombies, robots - I don't know - I'd probably do alright hidden in the middle of the herd and sacrificing people to keep myself alive, but where you gonna hide when all the food is gone?
Ben Peek
