Food Sayings & Quotes
These food sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.In Europe we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also a great giver of happiness and well being and delight. Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary. - Ernest Hemingway
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. - J. R. R. Tolkien
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either. - Joseph Wood Krutch
The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food. - Cyril Connolly
When Christ said: 'I was hungry and you fed me,' he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness. He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by. Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger. - Mother Teresa
The childless experts on child raising also bring tears of laughter to my eyes when they say, 'I love children because they're so honest.' There is not an agent in the CIA or the KGB who knows how to conceal the theft of food, how to fake being asleep, or how to forge a parent's signature like a child. - Bill Cosby
Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don't get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goats cheese get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle. - Barbara Ehrenreich
When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing, in itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals, meals communally shared: a sense of the sacred in the profane. - Joyce Carol Oates
A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food. - Pearl S. Buck
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again. - Margaret Mead
Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals. - Finley Peter Dunne
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison. - Walter Bagehot
The sinews of war are five, men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale. - Ernest Hemingway
'Here, dearest Eve,' he exclaims, 'here is food.' 'Well,' answered she, with the germ of a housewife stirring within her, 'we have been so busy to-day that a picked-up dinner must serve. - Nathaniel Hawthorne
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. - Leo Tolstoy
It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless. - John Kenneth Galbraith
Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant?? I'm halfway through my fish burger and I realize, Oh my God. I could be eating a slow learner. - Lyndon Baines Johnson
I go to MacDonald's and Burger King on occasion. What else are you going to do when you're on the road and you have to dash in for some food? They are pretty good; they're clean, and you know what you're getting. I don't know why anyone would think I always dine on hummingbird tongues or something. - Julia Child
It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very small snack foods. - Geraldine A. Ferraro
Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers. - Socrates
Any healthy man can go without food for two days, but not without poetry. - Charles-Pierre Baudelaire
The west wasn't won on salad. There is no sincerer love than the love of food. - George Bernard Shaw
More die in the United States of too much food than of too little. - John Kenneth Galbraith
Honour is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. - Charles Caleb Colton