Food Quotes - page 8

Children born of fairy stock Never need for shirt or frock, Never want for food or fire, Always get their heart's desire... (Robert Graves)
It keeps you fit - the alcohol, nasty women, sweat on stage, bad food - it's all very good for you. View quote
Bon Scott
One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off. View quote
William Irwin Thompson
If you're a single mother with two children-which is the toughest job in America, as far as I'm concerned-you're working hard to put food on your family. View quote
George W. Bush
Not like Chinese food, where you eat it and then you feel hungry an hour later. View quote
Ray Liotta
Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection have molded our nature, so too can our culture. View quote
Peter Singer
I've always liked Atlanta. And not just for the strip clubs, but the shopping and the food. View quote
Jon Stewart
In the real world, equal respect for all cultures doesn't translate into a rich mosaic of colorful and proud peoples interacting peacefully while maintaining a delightful diversity of food and craftwork. It translates into closed pockets of oppression, ignorance, and abuse. View quote
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
"Too much trouble," "Too expensive," or "Who will know the difference" are death knells for good food. View quote
Julia Child
I hate all virtues based on food and bloated bellies; though food and drink are good, I'm better slaked and fed by that inhuman flame which burns in our black bowels. I like to name that flame which burns within me God! View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul. (Hans Hofmann)
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. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food. View quote
Zora Neale Hurston
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. View quote
Michael Palin
It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell on it afterwards, to discuss it and wallow in the remembered pleasures of every mouthful. Those whose minds dwell before dinner on the spit, and after on the dishes, are fit only to be scullions. View quote
Francis de Sales
I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to give those animals a decent life and we've got to give them a painless death. We owe the animal respect. View quote
Temple Grandin
I have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It's very comforting. View quote
Teri Garr
When no food is given to the ear, Then let a little be given to the stomach. View quote
Thiruvalluvar
You see, cuckoos are parasites. They lay their eggs in other birds' nests. When the egg hatches, the baby cuckoo pushes the other baby birds out of the nest. The poor parent birds work themselves to death trying to find enough food to feed the enormous cuckoo child who has murdered their babies and taken their places." "Enormous? Did you just call me fat?" "It was an analogy." "I am not fat. View quote
Cassandra Clare
The food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to bite it. View quote
H. Rider Haggard
A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion. (Alfred Nobel)
Food. Drink. Sleep. Books. They are all drugs. View quote
Fay Weldon
Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal. View quote
Eddie Izzard
Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. View quote
Edith Sitwell
My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a tornado hit it and then she'd come out with the best food. Then she'd sit at the table and she wouldn't eat! View quote
Edie Brickell