Meal Quotes

#1. There is something profoundly satisfying about sharing a meal. Eating together, breaking bread together, is one of the oldest and most fundamentally unifying of human experiences.

Barbara Coloroso

#2. My message is, as it alway has been, moderation: meat as a main course on three days a week, eggs on one, fish on one other and some form of vegetarian meal on the rest constitute a perfectly acceptable, interesting and varied diet.

Delia Smith

#3. It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#4. His stomach could not tolerate the snails and lampreys and other rich food Captain Khorane so relished, and after his first meal at the captain's table he spent the rest of the day with one end or the other dangling over the rail.

George R R Martin

#5. Beer is amazing. Nutritional. Medicinal. A beverage, but also a meal.

J.R. Moehringer

#6. Would you really dig into yesterday's garbage to make tonight's meal? Do you dig into yesterday's mental garbage to create today's experiences?

Louise Hay

#7. Fear filled his gut like a meal he could not digest.

George R R Martin

#8. I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind.

Henry Rollins

#9. These days it's hard to look at a poodle without thinking what a good meal he would make.

Steve Martin

#10. Just as the Eucharist fuels our soul and our spirit, good healthful meals fuel our bodies for the work God calls each of us to do in his kingdom. Praying before we consume a meal or when we are feeling exhausted and stressed helps to bring this "body and soul" connection into the light

Mary DeTurris Poust

#11. He could not comprehend what was happening to him, but it had to do with the casual cruelty of people who'd never missed a meal or had a gun stuck to their heads.

Ben Fountain

#12. I have never cooked a meal in my life and always end up paying for dozens of people to eat with me.

Rufus Wainwright

#13. Water is the medicine for indigestion; it is invigorating when the food that is eaten is well digested; it is like nectar when drunk in the middle of a dinner; and it is like poison when taken at the end of a meal.

Chanakya

#14. I love my wife dearly, and, therefore, I've never cooked a meal, romantic or otherwise, for her.

Steve Carell

#15. With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.

Zakk Wylde

#16. and the way you felt after a meal. It literally cannot be too detailed. If you think it is relevant, put it down. Among the things that you should track in your food log are your thoughts and expectations prior to the meals. Are you looking forward to something? Do you feel that you

Nadya Andreeva

#17. There's a value to getting the meal on the table every night, and there's a value to being an old-school kind of parent.

Sharon Stone

#18. My favorite meal to make is seared ahi, and my wife does the most amazing pear salad.

Joel Parkinson

#19. What I would like to say to you in conclusion is this: romance is the dessert. If you are hungry, you need to be working on the main meal - yourself. That means learning how to fulfill yourself first, and once you have achieved that, then you will be ready for dessert!" - Raeleen

Belinda Jones

#20. Nutrients always act as a team. Comprehensive nutritional science must rise above the traditional piece-meal approach.

Roger Williams

#21. My idea of a good night has always been having a lovely meal and a proper conversation.

Kirsty Gallacher

#22. There are three proven rules for good teeth: brush after every meal; see your dentist twice a year; and mind your own business.

Henry Boyd

#23. When you travel so many weeks a year, it's always nice to have a home-cooked meal.

Maria Sharapova

#24. Any free meal is a good meal, you know?

Joe Sakic

#25. The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present. Health and hope grew strong in them, and they were content with each good day as it came, taking pleasure in every meal, and in every word and song.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#26. We are all creative, from the mother adding an extra pinch of garlic to her meal, to the entrepreneur launching a brand new product, to the business consultant who creates a more effective way for corporate departments to communicate. The call requires creativity.

Shannon Tanner

#27. You have shown your usual cunning in getting up just in time for a meal.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#28. Believe it or not, my best meal is to go to the store and buy a DiGiorno pizza, come home, add some fresh Parmesan cheese, and just hang with my family!

Cheyenne Jackson

#29. After the meal was done, the brothers moved slowly, as if drugged or sleepy, which made me wonder if it was similar to the post-turkey feeling on Thanksgiving Day.

Colleen Houck

#30. In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.

Tamsin Greig

#31. In you, she saw hope.""You mean she saw his next meal.

Nicki Elson

#32. I'm a vegan. But, no one believes it because when you're out in the field, most of your meal options involve meat with a side of something fried. I've learned how to be creative and improvise and can eat anywhere - even a steak house or a gas station.

Nicole Lapin

#33. I tried therapy. This had never appealed to me. For me, it was a bit like a Chinese meal: very filling at the time, but then an hour later you're hungry again.

Rod Stewart

#34. Now filet mignon come with every meal. I swear to God that I'm so high, Feel like i am going up a hill.

Wiz Khalifa

#35. Anything made with love, bam! -it's a beautiful meal.

Emeril Lagasse

#36. It is a virtue, I came to believe long ago, not to make a meal out of one's emotional life. There's always enough work to do, not to mention that there's world enough outside.

Joseph Brodsky

#37. The thing is, if you follow whatever meal you have with Coke, it eats up the other things. It helps with the digestion of it.

Lennon Parham

#38. If you're going out for a meal with friends, and they say they can't afford to go to such and such a place, you can't force them to afford it.

Phyllis Logan

#39. Soup is to the meal, what the hostesses smile of welcome is to the party. A prelude to the goodness to come.

Louis Pullig De Gouy

#40. I kind of think of engineering like the chefs at a restaurant. Nobody's going to deny chefs are integrally important, but there's also so many other people who contribute to a great meal.

Ben Silbermann

#41. Satchmo was raised on steaming pots of red beans and rice, a meal so familiar that he described it as his "birthmark" - indeed, in adulthood, he often signed off letters with "Red beans and ricely yours.

Fiona Ross

#42. I think that romance sort of coincides with effort, so you can fall flat on your face, but as long as you're making a great effort, I think it comes off as romantic. So it can be something as simple as, like, if you're someone who doesn't cook, you can make a meal.

Ashton Kutcher

#43. That is the way to learn the most; when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don't notice that the time passes. I am sometimes so wrapped up in my work that I forget about the noon meal.

Albert Einstein

#44. You're a few fries short of being a happy meal.

Lynn Gardner

#45. We are an indebted family going out for an expensive meal to celebrate getting approved foe a new credit card. It might feel good (at the time), but we're still simply delaying the inevitable.

Peter Schiff

#46. When the meal was over we all had a quiet rest in our rooms and I meditated on the race. This is the time when an athlete feels all alone in the big world. Opponents assume tremendous stature. Any runner who denies having fears, nerves or some kind of disposition is a bad athlete, or a liar.

Gordon Pirie

#47. When a Southern woman offers you a homecooked meal, you're only rude if you refuse. That goes for seconds and thirds too, by the way." -Ruby Watts

Brandy Heineman

#48. Appetites have only one word in their vocabulary - MORE. Appetites are never fully and finally satisfied. Even after the most satisfying meal imaginable, we eventually find ourselves rummaging through the pantry for a snack.

Andy Stanley

#49. Mockery is not just the interest of children; it is their second meal

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#50. My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home. The house was run by my mother, and because there were 10 or so kids, there was no time for individual attention. It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

#51. It's so simple to create a delicious holiday meal without animal cruelty. I promise no one will miss the turkey!

Alicia Silverstone

#52. I try not to eat too many raw vegetables. I only have one raw meal a day. At night I eat warm, cooked foods. I like to drink lots of tea, but no coffee. Not drinking coffee has changed my game for the better.

Taylor Schilling

#53. Good service can save a bad meal, but there is no level of food that can save bad service.

Alton Brown

#54. I can drink 15 pieces of fruit in a day. Nobody is going to sit down and eat that. I drink about 48 ounces a day. That constitutes about 50 percent of what I eat. And then I have one meal a day, some protein. I restrict calories.

Montel Williams

#55. [Children] use up the same part of my head as poetry does. To deal with children is a matter of terrific imaginative identification. And the children have to come first. It's no use putting off their evening meal for two months.

Libby Houston

#56. It was wonderful, of course
ham with mustard is a meal of glory.

Dodie Smith

#57. Oh, you were the dessert. The Rattrays were the meal.

Charlaine Harris

#58. Sex is like having dinner: sometimes you joke about the dishes, sometimes you take the meal seriously.

Woody Allen

#59. She was a doyenne of the ready-meal, a devotee of the frozen pea, and believed takeaway to be more beneficial to modern humanity than penicillin

Claire Sandy

#60. Dessert is to a meal what a dress is to a woman.

Beatrice Peltre

#61. I think you live a fuller life with someone else, you know, you're firing on all cylinders. It can be a nightmare at times, we all know that, but nevertheless in the end I think to have someone else's input on anything - a book, a meal, your children, life, a walk - is fantastic.

Francesca Annis

#62. When I was growing up, there were just the three channels, so as a nation we all sat down to the same meal at the end of the day. Now there's been this explosion.

Rory Bremner

#63. You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

Anthony Bourdain

#64. What I miss the most is chatting with my friends and family and having a good laugh over a simple meal.

Kim Yuna

#65. He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

John Lennon

#66. Punishing a person for the wrongs of another makes about as much sense as throwing up to enjoy the meal a second time.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#67. Eating a meal with full awareness can be a powerful, enlightening, and healing experience.

David Simon

#68. My bare arms are only a relief for the first few minutes before the unobstructed sun finds my fair skin, and I swear I can hear the rays chuckle with delight at such a tasty meal.

Sara Raasch

#69. How starved you must have been that my heart became a meal for your ego.

Amanda Torroni

#70. I always feel like the editing room is like coming into the kitchen. What kind of a meal do you make from there? It can be anything.

Brit Marling

#71. You're rich if you've had a meal today.

Billy Graham

#72. If y'all find a couple of my toes on ya plate, jess let me know, 'cause I'm missin' a few. I put my foot in this heah meal." ~Big Momma

Angela Duirden-Galbreth

#73. When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal.

Jeffrey Wright

#74. America's craft brewers know that beer, not wine, is the best beverage for accompanying a good meal.

Nancy Johnson

#75. After working for TV, you realise that the majority of the population still wonders where their next meal is coming from.

Terence Lewis

#76. I do know what my first meal in the next world would be ... Spaghetti Aglio e Olio, heavy on everything.

Rachael Ray

#77. It's very clear that there's a lot of double standards going on. Should there be a 30mph speed limit? Of course there bloody should. And certainly with kids and school food, kids need to be nannied for sure. So give them a bloody good meal at school.

Jamie Oliver

#78. In most of the world, breakfast is an important meal.

Tyler Cowen

#79. My mom's chicken, with rice and gravy was my favorite dish as a kid, and it still is now. That's my favorite meal from her or from anybody. It's a family favorite.

Serena Williams

#80. If you look around the world, the countries with the best environmental practices are the wealthiest. There's a reason for that. If you're worried about where your next meal is going to come from or shelter over your head, your focus is on those things.

John S. Watson

#81. You can do something as simple as drinking two cups of water before a meal to fill your belly a bit so that you don't overeat, or change up your cheese from dairy to nondairy.

Kathy Freston

#82. Edwin's creations landed hit or miss on the board and one miss a year ago ended with us heaving overboard for a week. Fortifying meal solutions, my ass.

Katherine McIntyre

#83. The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Any fame is a by-product of making something that means something. You don't go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a shit.

Banksy

#84. I will tell you, I'm a lousy cook, but I think I'm a pretty good judge of a good meal.

Barney Frank

#85. I wake at 5 or 5:30 most mornings, make myself a latte and grab a cookie, write until 10 or 11, go have my favorite meal, 'second breakfast,' or grab coffee with friends, or play basketball. Then, around noon, I begin apologizing via email for the manuscripts I can't get to.

Jess Walter

#86. Eating, and hospitality in general, is a communion, and any meal worth attending by yourself is improved by the multiples of those with whom it is shared.

Jesse Browner

#87. My point, exactly. Those poor women are so malnourished, they can't think straight. Take my friend Sasha. Her idea of a three-course meal is a celery stick, a cherry tomato, and a laxative. She's killing herself to fit into these clothes. Women like me can't dress like that.

Kerrelyn Sparks

#88. Aye: though we hunted high and low,
And hunted everywhere,
Of the three men's fate we found no trace
Of any kind in any place,
But a door ajar, and an untouched meal,
And an overtoppled chair.

Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

#89. Everything becomes closer once you realize that the world is only as far away as a nap and a meal.

Feist

#90. One does not have to sleep with, or even touch, someone who has paid for your meal. All those obligations are hereby rendered null and void, and any man who doesn't think so needs a quick jab in the kidney.

Cynthia Heimel

#91. The waiter was a kind of surrogate uncle or grandfather for the duration of the meal; he paradoxically made you feel at home by treating you with undisguised contempt.

Ted Merwin

#92. Cooking and eating food outdoors makes it taste infinitely better than the same meal prepared and consumed indoors.

Fennel Hudson

#93. Sin is like an incredible meal that becomes poisonous venom in your stomach. What you eat on Earth you may digest in Hell ...

LeCrae

#94. It's not like I'm out eating McDonald's and Del Taco every night. I eat good: my mom fixes dinner every single night - baked chicken, fish - she cooks a great meal every single night.

Bryce Harper

#95. If you added it up, without her there was nothing
but with her even the simplest of gestures of walking a bird dog in the desert, or selecting the ingredients for a meal for two rather than one took on an ineffable charm.
(from the novella, Revenge)

Jim Harrison

#96. In the old patrician world there was a custom once a week you had to eat a meal with your slaves and get to know them as people.

Jared Harris

#97. Tori joined us for dinner
in body, at least. She spent the meal practicing for a role in the next zombie movie, expressionless, methodically moving fork to mouth, sometimes even with food on it.

Kelley Armstrong

#98. Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the Stooks arise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behavior Of silk-sack clouds! Has wilder, willful-waiver Meal-drift molded ever and melted across skies?

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#99. Sissy didn't know feeding Mitch would be so enjoyable - except for the expense, of course. He'd pretty much groaned and purred during the whole meal. Everything she put in front of him made him smile, and then he'd feed like he hadn't eaten in days.

Shelly Laurenston

#100. Ben & Jerry's is an indulgent dessert that should be eaten in moderation. You should not be replacing more than one meal a day with ice cream. We do not consider a pint or a tub of ice cream to be a single serving.

Jerry Greenfield