Food Quotes - Page 19

If God gives you a Quiznos, can I have a bite? No way. You have to pray for your own food.

I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.

Always remember: If you're alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who's going to know?

Home grown tomatoes, home grown tomatoes What would life be like without homegrown tomatoes Only two things that money can't buy That's true love and home grown tomatoes.

This magical, marvelous food on our plate, this sustenance we absorb, has a story to tell. It has a journey. It leaves a footprint. It leaves a legacy. To eat with reckless abandon, without conscience, without knowledge; folks, this ain't normal.

What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.

"Who is secure in all his basic needs? Who has work, spiritual care, medical care, housing, food, occasional entertainment, free clothing, free burial, free everything? The answer might be nuns and monks, but the standard reply is 'prisoners'"

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.

We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.

I would wear a turban to Whole Foods.

If there's anything I like better than honey and ketchup, it's baloney and whipped cream --- and we haven't got any!

We are eating hybridized and genetically modified (GMO) foods full of antibiotics, hormones, pesticides, and additives that were unknown to our immune systems just a generation or two ago. The result? Our immune system becomes unable to recognize friend or foe - to distinguish between foreign molecular invaders we truly need to protect against and the foods we eat or, in some cases, our own cells. In Third World countries where hygiene is poor and infections are common, allergy and autoimmunity are rare.

... the agent provocateur of a good dinner.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight... [Breadmaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel. that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.

When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally.

You have to eat to cook. You can't be a good cook and be a noneater. I think eating is the secret to good cooking.

Meat isn't murder, it's delicious.

Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

My manner of living is plain and I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready.