Food - Quotes & Sayings
I plainly told them, 'Be ye sincerely converted, and with your whole heart, to the Lord our God, for nothing is impossible to Him, that He may today send you food on your road, even until you are satisfied, because He has everywhere abundance.' And, with God's help, it was so done: Behold! A herd of swine appeared in the road before our eyes.
Saint PatrickNobody wants to be on food stamps, but when my family lost everything, we were grateful for it. I was grateful the program was there so I could concentrate on my schoolwork and not on my empty belly. We were grateful that we had the support we needed to roll up our sleeves and rebuild our lives.
Tammy DuckworthThey say that our sense of smell is one of the strongest triggers of memories. Of course, our sense of smell is integral to our sense of taste, so it is no surprise, then, that in a life full of moving and traveling, food has always been a source of familiar comfort for me.
Philippe Cousteau, Jr.I have great Indian genes! You know, I'm lazy. I want to take advantage of the fact that I have a great metabolism. When I start getting fat, I'll work on it! I like food, and I don't like the gym, and as long as I look like this without doing anything, why bother?
Priyanka ChopraJust because the Americans are so good at rattling out accessible and cheap junk food, nobody looks twice when it comes to their food. But there are golden nuggets everywhere.
Jamie OliverI love to talk about cooking and recipes, but I love as much talking about how food and cooking can change the world.
Jose AndresI think I love Montreal more than Montreal loves me... I love the food there.
Kathy GriffinMonkeys don't enjoy or appreciate flavours. Experts have told us that human beings are the only beings that can appreciate food at this higher level and the only living beings that cook.
Ferran AdriaI don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. I don't care if I live in a dump. I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months.
Jack KevorkianAlthough I may not know a lot about football, I do know a lot about food! As a result, not many people ask me to join their fantasy leagues, but they will come to me for suggestions on what to serve for guests for a weekly Sunday get-together.
Marcus SamuelssonI will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.
Imelda MarcosIt's fun for me to go on other folks' talk shows. When you've endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.
Dick CavettFood is the moral right of all who are born into this world.
Norman BorlaugYou know most of the food that Americans hold so dear - things like hamburgers and hot dogs - were road food, but even before they were road food, they were peasant food.
Alton BrownI think the biggest thing is clean as you go. Wash all your knives, cutting boards, dishes, when you are done cooking, not look at a sink full of dishes after you are done. Cleaning as you go helps keep away cross contamination and you avoid having food borne bacteria.
Cat CoraNo one believes this, but when I'm working, it's the same, whether I'm working on 'Bad News Bears,' 'Before Sunset,' 'A Scanner Darkly,' or 'Fast Food Nation.' I'm the same person, trying to make it work.
Richard LinklaterI have a lot of fruit trees and my own little vegetable garden and chickens. And every time I eat, I bless my food; I say I'm grateful for for it and let it nourish every part of my body.
Gisele BundchenEvery meal should end with something sweet. Maybe it's jelly on toast at breakfast, or a small piece of chocolate at dinner - but it always helps my brain bring a close to the meal.
Robert IrvineActually, if I don't eat healthy food I don't feel good. For me, I crave healthy food.
Kristin CavallariMy quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats.
Kenny LogginsBahrainis are better off than many other Arabs. We have a welfare state, everybody gets a salary whether they have a job or not. Electricity and food are subsidized; school and healthcare are free. And we don't differentiate between Bahrainis and foreigners. We are very proud of that.
Hamad bin Isa Al KhalifaI love hotel rooms, so I take pictures of the room and the way out and the lobby, the food and drink.
Geoffrey ZakarianI love Indian food, and my favourite dish is dal rice.
Madhur BhandarkarThe only break I ever took was to eat. That's all I did. Work, and then quickly eat something. It became my main pleasure, having access to my comfort food.
John PrescottWhen all else fails, dress beautifully and throw your food.
Gail CarrigerI was always a junk food person, still am.
Dolly PartonIf I like a food, I'll eat it, even if I know it's not good for me.
Kim KardashianMy sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread - works all the time. I think I've been eating pasta for 26 years.
Tom BradyIf my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me. Help the homeless. Help the needy... people who don't have no food... Instead of some big funeral, where they come from here and there and all over. Save it.
B. B. KingMore die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
John Kenneth GalbraithUltimately, the perfect meal is when those things come together - circumstance, the food, ambiance, and you're with the person that you want to be with.
Grant AchatzI think that once people understand the great risks that climate change poses, they will naturally want to choose products and services that cause little or no emissions of greenhouse gases, which means 'low-carbon consumption.' This will apply across the board, including electricity, heating, transport and food.
Nicholas SternFor the first 50 years of your life the food industry is trying to make you fat. Then, the second 50 years, the pharmaceutical industry is treating you for everything.
Pierre DukanI just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.
Clement AttleeWith messy food, or foods with a lot of sauce, you do 'The Hunch.' I learned it in Philly, watching the dudes in suits eat cheesesteaks. You keep your elbows above your hands because if you don't, the grease runs down your sleeve to your elbow.
Guy FieriI won't eat anything green.
Kurt CobainFood is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost.
Phil McGrawUrban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
Wendell BerryOn a very local scale, a refrigerator is the center of the universe. On the inside is food essential to life, and on the outside of the door is a summary of the life events of the household.
Robert FulghumNever order food in excess of your body weight.
Erma BombeckI'm a very, very healthy eater. I eat lots of fish, lots of vegetables, lots of fruit. I don't eat junk food.
Victoria BeckhamHumans love sex, we need sex, it's how we connect, it reminds us we're alive, it's the third most basic human need, after food and good movie popcorn.
Billy CrystalThe problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.
Alice WatersI went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
Sam SmithMy parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school.
Flavor FlavI am a sucker for those old traditional places, and Rome is as good as it gets, particularly when you throw in Italian food.
Roger FedererMost fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people don't seem to care about the fat aspect.
Eric SchlosserThe kitchen oven is reliable, but it's made us lazy.
Jamie OliverThe first step in reforming appetite is going from processed food to real food. Then, if you can afford organic or grass-fed, fantastic. But the first step is moving from processed industrial food to the real thing.
Michael PollanIf you love food and you love red wine and they put you in France, you're in a good place and you're in a bad place at the same time. You have to weigh yourself every day, and you have to have an alarm number. When you get to that number, you have to start putting it in reverse.
Salma Hayek