Food Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Food simply isn't important to me.

People who shop in health food stores never look healthy.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Food should be fun.

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!

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

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

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

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.

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

High-quality food is better for your health.

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

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

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.

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.

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

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

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

The French cook; we open tins.

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

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.

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

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

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.

Wine is bottled poetry.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Health food makes me sick.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

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

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.

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

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

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

Stop being a vegan and start enjoying what you eat.

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

A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap.

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

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

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

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.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

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

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

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

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

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