Quotes About Eating

#1. Cooking and eating were growing to irritate her with their relentless necessity.

China Mieville

#2. Since life is a dream I think I'll stop eating and drinking so much
do some ethereal daydreaming instead
go in the mansion of the mind and close all the doors, as if I was traveling in the back of a bus for 4 days & 4 nights, broke.

Jack Kerouac

#3. My dad died from pancreatic cancer at 54 ... I'm making sure I'm eating my vegetables and staying away from the red meat.

Chumlee

#4. Sucking your thumb without a blanket is like eating a cone without ice cream!

Charles M. Schulz

#5. If someone wants to eat healthy, they can do that and get the sandwich exactly right. I'm so pleased we're able to influence so many people and their eating habits.

Fred DeLuca

#6. I could be like everyone else and stop eating, but that wouldn't make me happy.

Kelly LeBrock

#7. Lifelong boundaries in the area of food make our lives better because they keep us safe. Yes, they cramp our style, but you know what? Our style needs to be cramped because there are consequences to eating what we want when we want.

Barb Raveling

#8. Whenever I come to Delhi, I forget about eating right and watching my weight.

Madhur Bhandarkar

#9. As Samuel Spaulding, Esquire, once said, 'Dig in the earth, delve in the soul.' Spin those mower blades, Bill, and walk in the spray of the Fountain of Youth. End of lecture. Besides, a mess of dandelion greens is good eating once in a while.

Ray Bradbury

#10. The French say you get hungry when you're eating, and I get inspired when I'm working. It's my engine

Karl Lagerfeld

#11. It's very interesting to blur the line between eating human beings and eating animals, because I do think people should think more about what they put in their bodies, whether it is nutritionally or philosophically.

Bryan Fuller

#12. When I am sitting home, and I am happy and I have my TV show and I don't need to work and I'm married now and I like to be in line by my pool with my yoga instructor wife and eating fruit and taking in the sun, then life is good.

Alec Baldwin

#13. Eating has always come up whenever and wherever. Maybe it's because we're girls, we have a lot of interest in eating.

Kim Hyo-yeon

#14. Think about it for a brief moment. Suspend disbelief. Wind the clock forward 100 years. Do you think, as a species, we will still be struggling with the things that vex us today? Will we still be arguing about the same stuff? We will still be eating Cocoa Puffs? We are at the end of the beginning.

Brad Feld

#15. It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's such a cliche to say that artists write when they're down, but it's true for me. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at my heart or my soul or my head.

Ellie Goulding

#16. I believe that a healthy lifestyle isn't just a regular exercise routine or your eating habits, but a synergy of a healthy mind and body.

Theo Rossi

#17. Typically, people who exercise, start eating better and becoming more productive at work. They smoke less and show more patience with colleagues and family. They use their credit cards less frequently and say they feel less stressed. Exercise is a keystone habit that triggers widespread change.

Charles Duhigg

#18. I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

Benjamin Franklin

#19. The raising of animals for food and all that it entails is the single most destructive force impacting our planet's fragile ecosystems. Our planet simply cannot sustain the greed of billions of human beings who are eating other animals.

Sharon Gannon

#20. I'd rather get sick from eating too many doggie treats,
than get sick from eating none at all.
-Kilo (my dog)

Jose N. Harris

#21. Eating, drinking, sleeping
a little laughter ! much weeping!
Is that all ? Do not die here like a worm.
Wake up! Attain immortal bliss!

Sivananda

#22. My mother's side of the family is Methodist, which is how I was raised. It was conservative in that I had strong values - sitting down and eating with the family every day, listening to authority and going to church every week and having perfect attendance at Sunday school.

Jonathan Groff

#23. When the balance is broken then everything includes itself in power, power into will, will into appetite. So appetite, aided by will and power, becomes a universal wolf, at last eating up itself.

William C. Brown

#24. She's told me that even though you won't meet her tonight, she's telling you her life story through the ingredients in this meal, and although you won't shake her hand, you've shared her heart. Now please, continue eating and drinking, and thank you again.

J. Ryan Stradal

#25. My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe.

Anton Du Beke

#26. People who concern themselves with the rights of other adults who engage in consensual acts involving sex, love, and/or eating croissants together are damaged and in pain.

Rob Delaney

#27. Every time you consume factory-farmed chicken, beef, veal, pork, eggs, or dairy, you are eating antibiotics, pesticides, steroids, and hormones.

Rory Freedman

#28. Good Viking genes, being vegetarian and having rowdy dogs and kids definitely keep me in shape. Not eating meat gives me the energy I need to keep up with work, family and travel - I'm very active.

Pamela Anderson

#29. If we could manage our own finances the way the Congress does the nation's, we'd all be living in high cotton and eating high on the hog.

Charley Reese

#30. The best reason to go to the movies is to be with other people. Eating the popcorn, being with other people you don't know.

Peter Weller

#31. In terms of sustainability and what we eat and what its footprint is on the environment and the consequences of eating one thing versus another, obviously it makes a lot of sense to be eating insects. They're incredibly plentiful. They've got a very short turnover rate. You could be eating termites.

Mary Roach

#32. A lot of folks that ain't saying 'ain't,' ain't eating.

Dizzy Dean

#33. Eating vegetables makes me feel good.

Joely Fisher

#34. You know," he says, peeking inside the bag. "It's okay. Because ham and cheese is my absolute favorite ... and an apple? It's like, the lunch of champions."
I stifle another yawn. "It doesn't get much better than that, right?"
"Only if you were eating with me," he says.

Katie Klein

#35. I travel 330 days a year and eat every two and a half hours - I'm a big guy. I always carry a fork, little bottles of spices, and Sriracha. I eat what I feel like eating.

Robert Irvine

#36. But what so different of eating plants? Everything has it's life. If you are so pure, why not just stop eating? So you can have no shit?

Xiaolu Guo

#37. I cheat every now and then, but the foundation of my eating habits is organic. I don't like to eat a lot of processed foods. So it's fresh vegetables, fresh herbs and meat without all of the antibiotics and preservatives.

Tia Mowry

#38. You're all like black boxes here," he said. He meant the black boxes that record information on airplanes. We think that we're living, talking, walking, eating. Loving one another. But we're just recording information!

Svetlana Alexievich

#39. You have to be cautious of eating continuously the same thing. Beef comes to mind right away, and there's nothing wrong with beef, but you've got to do whatever you're doing in moderation. So try to break it up a little bit. Eat some fish or some shellfish at least a couple of times a week.

Emeril Lagasse

#40. Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.

Vaughn Monroe

#41. Our land has grown a magnificent liberty tree and its fruit is the richest ideal of the human soul. But, we cannot go on forever merely eating the fruit of the liberty tree or it will die. We must begin to plant some seeds.

Leon Uris

#42. We live in a world where most people still subscribe to the belief that shame is a good tool for keeping people in line. Not only is this wrong, but it's dangerous. Shame is highly correlated with addiction, violence, aggression, depression, eating disorders, and bullying.

Brene Brown

#43. At this point, I wouldn't be able to digest meat, and I don't like eating things with faces.

Joely Fisher

#44. 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

#45. World War II really fascinated me because it's the only time that everybody in this country sat down at the same table, because eating on rations was your patriotic duty.

Ruth Reichl

#46. If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly.

Al Roker

#47. I think we all should try and eat a good diet. It's actually a
wonderful to eat a good diet, because you're eating all of these different
kinds of foods ... and they all taste good, and when you get used to it, you
feel better!

Bruce Ames

#48. Val was eating cornflakes. She ate very little else, at home. They were light, they were pleasant, they were comforting, and then after a day or two they were like cotton wool.

A.S. Byatt

#49. On her eighteenth birthday, my mother had disposed of a man-eating tiger that had ravaged the villages in the hills north of Hanoi. Now, without a moment's hesitation, she raised my father's gun, took aim and put a single, irreproachable bullet through my husband's head.

Angela Carter

#50. I was going to the library, too. I'd get my parents to drop me off at the library on their way to work in the morning during school vacations. Sometimes my dad would embarrass me by making me take sandwiches. I was absolutely fine given the prospect of a day spent with books and not eating.

Neil Gaiman

#51. Plus, I won't have to feel bad for eating too many egg rolls because if I suddenly get skinny that's going to be hard to explain.

Jenny Lawson

#52. I've battled psoriasis; I've had an autoimmune disease since I was two. So I'm very vigilant about taking care of myself and eating right and what I put in my body. It's something that I had to be aware of since a young age. So health is a big deal.

LeAnn Rimes

#53. In most parts of the world people eat because they will die if they don't. The French, in contrast, live to eat. Many people take little or no pleasure from the food they consume. The French extract every possible pleasure from eating.

Vernon Coleman

#54. What I have been asking myself for years is: WHY?!
Why kill yourself in the gym? Why try to avoid a little bit of a gut? Why feel bad for eating half of a cake? This doesn't mean that I killed somebody, plus I left the other half of the cake for tomorrow, I didn't finish all of it!

Sara Anzellotti

#55. Where's the bull? (Callie)
Tied to a tree, eating my boot. I'm just glad my leg is no longer in it. (Sin)
Lad, how did you manage it? (Angus)
I run fast when chased by large bulls. (Sin)

Kinley MacGregor

#56. There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.

Laura Wilkinson

#57. I like eating; I like going to restaurants and trying new things.

Prince Royce

#58. It's not the suffering of birth, death, love that the young reject, but the suffering of endless labor without dream, eating the spare bread in bitterness, being a slave without the security of a slave.

Meridel Le Sueur

#59. It is the artists who make the true value of the world, though at times they may have to starve to do it. They are like earthworms, turning up the soil so things can grow, eating dirt so that the rest of us may eat green shoots.

Erica Jong

#60. By wine eating cares are put to flight.
[Lat., Vino diffugiunt mordaces curae.]

Horace

#61. Street Photography is like fishing. Catching the fish is more exciting than eating it ...

Thomas Leuthard

#62. Ah, Caviar! I keep on eating it, but can never get my fill. Like olives. It's a lucky thing it's not salty.

Anton Chekhov

#63. I would say that I had to change about eating out. I used to love eating out all the time. Eating out isn't always good. I ate a lot of fast food. So I had to slow that down and that's helped me a lot.

Jadeveon Clowney

#64. Consumers are going to have get used to eating less meat - to paying more for better quality meat and eating significantly less of it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#65. I'm giving serious thought into eating yor wife - Hannibal Lecter

Thomas Harris

#66. I don't think the problem is telling people you're on a diet. The problem is eating ice cream for breakfast.

Chelsea Handler

#67. I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.

Duncan Hines

#68. Beverly Hills is too intimidating. Everyone's got lovely teeth, so you don't want to smile. Everyone's ripped, so you start working out at 4 in the morning and eating egg white omelets.

Rob James-Collier

#69. I eat vegetarian. I am just drawn to clean eating, and although I do not deprive myself of sweets or French fries once in a while, my body just feels better if I give it good fuel to work with.

Tricia Helfer

#70. I feel like I'm held more accountable to stay healthy now because now I'm a role model to young girls to not have eating issues and to not say, 'Hey, it's OK to starve yourself' or 'It's OK to throw up after your meals' - that's not OK.

Demi Lovato

#71. In your spare time, google the ingredients in all the foods you are eating. If you care about yourself, you may change your menu

Sahndra Fon Dufe

#72. We use eating as a medium for social relationships: satisfaction of the most individual of needs becomes a means of creating community.

Margaret Visser

#73. I still go to a salon where a gal does my hair, and I don't know if it's because I'm a celebrity but by the time I leave there, we are eating chicken and talking and screaming.

Jenifer Lewis

#74. Since I've been on my own, I've been eating a lot of popcorn, cereal, instant noodles, and snack bars. I have a hot plate in my bedroom, a microwave, and a small fridge. That's the kind of kitchen I know how to get around in.

Karen Marie Moning

#75. Dissection and surgical instruction, like meat-eating, require a carefully maintained set of illusions and denial. Physicians and anatomy students must learn to think of cadavers as wholly unrelated to the people they once were.

Mary Roach

#76. Throughout the years I have set up my own rules about eating food: Never eat anything you can't pronounce. Beware of food that is described as, Some Americans say it tastes like chicken.

Erma Bombeck

#77. There is a river running through this city and every time my best friend laughs I want to grab him by the shoulders and shout Grow old with me and never kiss me on the mouth! I want to spend the next eighty years together, eating Doritos and riding bikes.

Clementine Von Radics

#78. Why, you are so eaten up with pride and vanity that you'll end by eating up one another, that's what I prophecy.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#79. Carlos was probably somewhere warm, eating three meals a day, and sleeping in a real bed. That was the life

Susan Beth Pfeffer

#80. Eating meat and drinking liquor are demonic vices. Those indulging in drink lose all sense of propriety, have no compassion or love and become demons.

Sathya Sai Baba

#81. Where is Richard, do you know?"
"Chopping onions on the back step. Oh, you mean Master Richard? Upstairs. Eating. Where's anybody?

Hilary Mantel

#82. To be honest with you, I still eat whatever I want. It's all about portion control. I still love pizza, but instead of eating half, I eat a slice.

Bill Engvall

#83. And all the while she shoveled forkfuls into her mouth like a pie-eating contestant in the home stretch.

Cathy Skendrovich

#84. It's too sad to live eating theories. The best thing is to transmute wisdom into love.

Samael Aun Weor

#85. There are supposed to be endorphins or whatever that make you feel great when you exercise. I don't think I have any, because I only feel great when I'm lying on the sofa reading a book, possibly while simultaneously eating biscuits.

Judith Flanders

#86. Consensus processes starve innovative design by eating the resource.

Fred Brooks

#87. I'm fairly adventurous with my eating. I've tried kangaroo, and Moreton Bay bugs, which are a kind of lobster, are so good.

Brian O'Driscoll

#88. You can't reduce passion and flair and eating ham to numbers, sir!

Gideon Defoe

#89. Luckily, eating healthy and exercise are activities I enjoy, but I still like to indulge every now and then. I don't deprive myself, but I'm thoughtful about my choices.

Miranda Kerr

#90. If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest or slaughter, husbandry or war. We have chosen slaughter. We have chosen war. That's the truest version of our story of eating animals.
Can we tell a new story?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#91. It is harder to be unhappy when you are eating Craig's Ice Cream

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#92. My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call.

Cathy Guisewite

#93. Thirty years of nutritional advice have left us fatter, sicker, and more poorly nourished. Which is why we find ourselves in the predicament we do: in need of a whole new way to think about eating.

Michael Pollan

#94. In our world, 80 to 90 percent of women's weight gain comes from overindulging in insulin-stimulating food. And it's not hardcore, straight-up, I-can-see you-in-the-face sugar. They're eating whole-wheat bread. They're eating ancient grains. They're eating black beans. That stuff is horrible.

Jorge Cruise

#95. Eating American-style, you put the knife down and clang. Continental is silent and efficient.

Letitia Baldrige

#96. Dr. Steven Bratman has coined the term orthorexia nervosa, a pathological fixation on eating proper food.

Lierre Keith

#97. I hate diets and I love eating.

Tracy Anderson

#98. Do you like to eat things?
-I love eating. I list it as a hobby.

James Patterson

#99. But I contend that most of what we're consuming today is no longer, strictly speaking, food at all, and how we're consuming it - in the car, in front of the TV, and, increasingly, alone - is not really eating, at least not in the sense that civilization has long understood the term.

Michael Pollan

#100. Some morning while your eating breakfast and you need something new to think about, though, you might want to ponder the fact that you see your kids across the table not as they are but as they once were, about three nanoseconds ago.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson