Food Quotes

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food.

The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter.

To preserve my brains I want food and this is now my first consideration. Any sympathetic letter from you will be helpful to me here to get a scholarship.

Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are.

Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.

I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings.

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

When I was a young fellow I was knocked down plenty. I wanted to stay down, but I couldn't. I had to collect the two dollars for winning or go hungry. I had to get up. I was one of those hungry fighters. You could have hit me on the chin with a sledgehammer for five dollars. When you haven't eaten for two days you'll understand.

Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.

A ‘liberal paradise’ would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive health care, free education, free food, free housing, free clothing, free utilities and only law enforcement personnel have guns. And, believe it or not, such a liberal utopia does indeed exist. ... It’s called prison.

Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.

...the avocado is a food without rival among the fruits, the veritable fruit of paradise

Life is a combination of magic and pasta.

The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality.

Some people think plant-based diet, whole foods diet is extreme. Half a million people a year will have their chests opened up and a vein taken from their leg and sewn onto their coronary artery. Some people would call that extreme.

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

The so-called nouvelle cuisine usually means not enough on your plate and too much on your bill.

Without butter, without eggs, there is no reason to come to France.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.

Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.

Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.

A basic rule of baking is that, in general, it's almost impossible to make an inedible batch of brownies.

Some people kiss as if they were eating watermelon

If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gatherings, no social harmony.

If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.

If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.

The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.

All experience is a drug experience. Whether it's mediated by our own [endogenous] drugs, or whether it's mediated by substances that we ingest that are found in plants, cognition, consciousness, the working of the brain, it's all a chemically mediated process. Life itself is a drug experience.

Self-centeredness will bring on the destruction of our world. National pride separates people. All people need the same thing. When you really get down to it, you'll find that all people need good food, clean water, clean air, and a decent environment, meaning education as to how to relate to one another and to avoid conflict, how to accept the differences where different people draw different conclusions.

No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.

An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

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.

If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony.

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

When I travel around the world, I see that poor countries sell their grain to the West while their own children starve in their arms. And we feed it to livestock. So we can eat a steak? Am I the only one who sees this as a crime? Every morsel of meat we eat is slapping the tear-stained face of a starving child. When I look into her eyes, should I be silent? The Earth can produce enough for everyone’s need. But not enough for everyone’s greed.

Soup puts the heart at ease, calms down the violence of hunger, eliminates the tension of the day, and awakens and refines the appetite.

A newborn baby has only three demands. They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the knowledge of her presence. Breastfeeding satisfies all three.

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing.