Food Quotes

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

Destiny may ride with us today, but there is no reason for it to interfere with lunch.

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.

Real food doesn't have ingredients, real food is ingredients.

Original, in French: La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur. English: Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.

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.

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.

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

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.

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

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

Life is a combination of magic and pasta.

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

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.

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

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.

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