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You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.

Paul Prudhomme

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

Dave Barry

I loved my mom so much because she had to work on a penny just to put food on the table... During the Depression in the United States, everybody had a tough time. And I was so hurt because she was crying that she didn't have any food for us for Thanksgiving.

Tony Bennett

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

Doug Larson

Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories. It's about sharing. It's about honesty. It's about identity.

Louise Fresco

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

George Bernard Shaw

Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian.

Kirk Cameron

In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry.

Ivanka Trump

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

John Cleese

Wine is bottled poetry.

Robert Louis Stevenson

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

Euripides

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

James Thurber

It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.

Kurt Cobain

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

David Byrne

People who shop in health food stores never look healthy.

Amy Sedaris

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

George Bernard Shaw

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

Oscar Wilde

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

Franz Kafka

Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.

Sai Baba

Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.

Audrey Hepburn

You feel better when you're eating food that retains nutritional value.

Amber Heard

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

Henry Fielding

Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down.

Ken Hill

The French cook; we open tins.

John Galsworthy

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

Peter De Vries

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

Julia Child

The easiest diet is, you know, eat vegetables, eat fresh food. Just a really sensible healthy diet like you read about all the time.

Drew Carey

Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.

Ted Nugent

I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President.

William J. Clinton

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.

Cyril Connolly

A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap.

Mitch Hedberg

Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.

Ina Garten

My most memorable meal is every Thanksgiving. I love the food: the turkey and stuffing; the sweet potatoes and rice, which come from my mother's Southern heritage; the mashed potatoes, which come from my wife's Midwestern roots; the Campbell's green-bean casserole; and of course, pumpkin pie.

Douglas Conant

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Jonathan Swift

Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life.

Maya Angelou

You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

Ronald Reagan

Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string.

Robin Williams

I am a big car enthusiast. I totally understand guys like Jay Leno who have a thousand cars. But asking me my favorite car would be like asking my favorite song or favorite food - it changes everyday.

Casey James

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Moliere

I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.

Rachael Ray

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

Virginia Woolf

Every 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 Irvine

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

Robert Redford

I like food. I like eating. And I don't want to deprive myself of good food.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

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.

Cesar Chavez

I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

Al Sharpton

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

M. F. K. Fisher

Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.

Finley Peter Dunne

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.

Denis Leary

If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

W. Somerset Maugham

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

M. F. K. Fisher

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Mark Twain

The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.

Pat Buchanan

You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.

Yogi Berra

Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before.

Marilyn vos Savant

I could talk food all day. I love good food.

Tom Brady

A 10-pound sack of potatoes lasts a long time.

Octavia E. Butler

What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!

Jamie Oliver

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

W. C. Fields

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.

Erma Bombeck

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

Calvin Trillin

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

Sophia Loren

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

Elsa Schiaparelli

Stop being a vegan and start enjoying what you eat.

Jamie Oliver

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

Hippocrates

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

Andy Rooney

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

Michael Palin

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Samuel Butler

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

Mother Teresa

I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.

Warren Cuccurullo

Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.

Andrew Weil

Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.

Dorothy Day

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

Erma Bombeck

High-quality food is better for your health.

Michael Pollan

Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom's homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past.

Homaro Cantu

I like to eat and I love the diversity of foods.

David Soul

I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!

Rachel McAdams

I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.

Virgil Thomson

I like to use 'I Can't Believe it's Not Butter' on my toast in the morning, because sometimes when I eat breakfast, I like to be incredulous. How was breakfast? Unbelievable.

Demetri Martin

The only think I like better than talking about Food is eating.

John Walters

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

Lord Byron

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

Lewis Grizzard

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

Dolly Parton

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Aesop

Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

Quintilian

Food should be fun.

Thomas Keller

The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.

Dave Barry

A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

James Joyce

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

A. Whitney Brown

Health food makes me sick.

Calvin Trillin

Food simply isn't important to me.

Alice Paul

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

George Orwell

My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis.

Emeril Lagasse

We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.

Ray Kroc

Sugar-free ice pops are an invention of God. They hardly have any calories since they're mostly water. I eat about 15 pops every two days.

Gene Simmons

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

James Beard