Food Quotes - page 3

The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years. (Thomas Malthus)
The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it were, in a prison and in servitude, and having by accident got its liberty, not being accustomed to search for its food, and not knowing where to conceal itself, easily becomes the prey of the first who seeks to incarcerate it again. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body. View quote
Cicero
Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. View quote
Norman Borlaug
Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply. View quote
Norman Borlaug
Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless. View quote
Norman Borlaug
There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a border illegally in order to put food on the family table. Such migrants my violate our laws against illicit entry, but if that's all they do they are trespassers, not criminals. They deserve to have their dignity respected. View quote
Madeleine Albright
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. View quote
W. H. Auden
We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children. View quote
L. Neil Smith
Today it is generally accepted that although the earliest humans probably ate some meat, it was unlikely to have played a major role in their diet. Plants would have been a much more important source of food. View quote
Jane Goodall
Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons? (Jane Goodall)
The more we learn of the true nature of non-human animals, especially those with complex brains and corresponding complex social behavior, the more ethical concerns are raised regarding their use in the service of man - whether this be in entertainment, as "pets," for food, in research laboratories, or any of the other uses to which we subject them. View quote
Jane Goodall
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. View quote
E. M. Forster
The Chinese say it is better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one. View quote
Khaled Hosseini
Pasteur originally conceived the idea of germs and of destroying them. Although this started as a personal thing, it has mushroomed into DDT, killing beetles and worms, resulting in food contamination, much sickness, and trouble. Although he is regarded as hero by modern medicine, Pasteur will be treated in much the same way as a warmonger when he is judged in the spiritual world. View quote
Michio Kushi
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients. View quote
Julia Child
The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook. View quote
Julia Child
If food is poetry, is not poetry also food? View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
One has got to choose between the two evils, also between the lesser of the two evils in the matter of food, and therefore vegetarian food has got to be taken by man in order to sustain human life. View quote
Morarji Desai
There's this about a farm: when the market's good there's money, and when it's bad there's food. View quote
Theodore Sturgeon
Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again. (Richard Bach)
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead. View quote
Woody Allen
I don't always buy organic food. It is more expensive. View quote
Alexandra Paul
We can't save the world without food. Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists. View quote
David Brin
I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past. View quote
Mario Lemieux
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