Food - Quotes & Sayings

We use competitive markets to arrange for delivery of our food supply.

Kenneth Lay

Barbecue is an incredibly democratic food. It's cheaper than McDonald's in many places and far more delicious. On the other hand, the only reason it can be that cheap is they use commodity hogs, the worst of the worst, which is - you know, it's an industry kind of ruining North Carolina.

Michael Pollan

It would take enormous expertise for Amazon to win in every category. Do you think McDonald's could be number one in hamburgers, seafood, and Chinese food?

Masayoshi Son

I love to take something ordinary and make it really special.

Ina Garten

I always think if you have to cook once, it should feed you twice. If you're going to make a big chicken and vegetable soup for lunch on Monday, you stick it in the refrigerator and it's also for Wednesday's dinner.

Curtis Stone

It all comes back to the basics. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and they'll keep coming back.

Dave Thomas

We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.

Laurie Colwin

A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap.

Mitch Hedberg

Making food is a wonderful way to spend a Friday night.

Chrissy Teigen

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

Franz Kafka

The most appealing thing to me about food is combining and layering flavors, tastes, and textures. So the perfect sandwich has to be toasted. It has to have Emmenthal Swiss cheese and a combination of sweet and savory - some cranberry or fig thing happening - with different kinds of meats like Black Forest ham and roast beef.

Kyle MacLachlan

As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay.

Michael Chang

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

Benjamin Franklin

Thank you, horseradish, for being neither a radish nor a horse. What you are is a liar food.

Jimmy Fallon

I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.

Rodney Dangerfield

I have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It's very comforting.

Teri Garr

I can't stay away from Chinese food. I really love that stuff.

Shaun White

The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.

S. Truett Cathy

It distresses me when I take my seven-year-old nephew out. I cook healthy food, and he wants to go to McDonald's. He doesn't even like the food; he just wants the toys, the Happy Meals. I can't stand to see people walking down the street eating fast food.

Julia Sawalha

Create a garden; bring children to farms for field trips. I think it's important that parents and teachers get together to do one or two things they can accomplish well - a teaching garden, connecting with farms nearby, weave food into the curriculum.

Alice Waters

Most cultures traditionally link food and spirituality directly with periodic restrictions and celebrations punctuating the year. Abstinence from particular foods or full-on fasting is part of many religious traditions and holidays.

Marcus Samuelsson

Barbecue is the good old technique of people making a fire and putting some stuff over the top - I mean, look at the S'more: it's just got a stick. A lot of those goofy toys, it's people who are looking at things to do. I think if you focus on the food, at the most you need tongs or a spoon to flip something; that's about it.

Graham Elliot

I hid myself in food.

Gordon Ramsay

I'm a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking - mostly Thai food.

Will Ferrell

I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries - the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.

Herbert Hoover

People want to think that staying in shape costs a lot of money. They couldn't be more wrong. It doesn't cost anything to walk. And it's probably a lot cheaper to go to the corner store and buy vegetables than take a family out for fast food.

Florence Griffith Joyner

We have wild animals in zoos, yet people rarely meet their 'food' face to face.

Elayne Boosler

I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children.

Malala Yousafzai

One man's trash is another man's treasure, and the by-product from one food can be perfect for making another.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Recipes are important but only to a point. What's more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.

Michael Symon

Even if you don't think you can cook well, you can cook better than the food industry.

Michael Pollan

We're all moving at such a high rate that we have to grab the frozen dinners and the McDonald's. We can't make it a way of life - we have to get back to real, simple, clean good foods. It will save our lives on so many levels; not just spina bifida, but obesity, diabetes, everything. Food is our medicine.

Nicole Ari Parker

It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the Moon, and the first food eaten there, were communion elements.

Buzz Aldrin

I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we don't have a distinctive Australian food, so we have food from everywhere all around the world. We're very multicultural, so we grew up with lots of different types of food.

Hugh Jackman

The most important thing is to snack on things that are filled with real food and nourishing ingredients that will leave you feeling energised and happy.

Ella Woodward

The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children.

Tom Vilsack

Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.

Joseph Epstein

Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.

Barack Obama

If it's time to indulge, I love desserts, especially Hershey's chocolate. I also love sushi and Japanese food. Food is my favorite in general.

Nathan Chen

You can't go wrong with relatively simple comfort food. It's also about ease. Some cook to impress. I cook for people to enjoy the food.

Al Roker

There are certain comforts of living here in Dubai, the comforts of so many mosques and so much good food... It's just that much more secure. And may God keep it safe.

Cat Stevens

I love everything about Philadelphia, and its food is like the city itself: real-deal, hearty, and without pretension. We've always had an underdog vibe as a city, but that just makes us try harder, and I love our scrappiness and scruffiness.

Lisa Scottoline

I am still not a fussy eater, although I do enjoy good food.

Yves Chauvin

Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.

Sophia Loren

I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.

Klaus Kinski

I believe that you can, by taking some simple and inexpensive measures, lead a longer life and extend your years of well-being. My most important recommendation is that you take vitamins every day in optimum amounts to supplement the vitamins that you receive in your food.

Linus Pauling

Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.

Nat King Cole

By eating many fruits and vegetables in place of fast food and junk food, people could avoid obesity.

David H. Murdock

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

David Duchovny