Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Mark TwainNinety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.
Bill GatesI, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.
Anthony BourdainI don’t think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.
Bill GatesYou’d have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I’d probably want to die in San Sebastian.
Anthony BourdainMillions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime. I’ve came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.
Christopher HitchensDisease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
Hosea BallouOnion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
Erma BombeckI’ll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.
Dolly PartonEven if we give parents all the information they need and we improve school meals and build brand new supermarkets on every corner, none of that matters if when families step into a restaurant, they can’t make a healthy choice.
Michelle Obama‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.
Henry David ThoreauI would love to encourage all my teammates to eat the best way they possibly can. High school athletes. Now, that’s not the way our food system in America is set up. It’s very different. They have a food pyramid, and I disagree with that. I disagree with a lot of things that people tell you to do.
Tom BradyNever order food in excess of your body weight.
Erma BombeckI can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
Karl LagerfeldThe more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you’ll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It’s truly ridiculous.
Charles BukowskiGive a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.
George Bernard ShawExercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it: if you are sick you should not take it.
Henry FordAll the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.
Abraham MaslowIce-cream is exquisite – what a pity it isn’t illegal.
VoltaireMy chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent. I can tell my children that they don’t need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.
Angelina JolieHow young can you die of old age?
Steven WrightI love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona – no lime. If the phone rings, I won’t answer until I’m done.
Maya AngelouIf you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that’s exactly what I did.
Gordon RamsayI think I should learn French and be a better cook – basic, really good life stuff.
Angelina JolieThe health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAll diseases run into one, old age.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI’ve done everything every fat person ever has. I’ve tried every diet.
Dolly PartonFame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
Emily DickinsonI wasn’t that great a chef, and I don’t think I’m that great a writer.
Anthony BourdainI would never win an award for not loving pizza.
Dwayne JohnsonI am very strict about what I eat. I do not consume anything that my body does not require. It takes a lot of sacrifice and discipline. It wasn’t easy before but now its second nature for me.
Sunil ChhetriI believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
Albert EinsteinI’m healthy as can be – not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.
Joel OsteenWhen people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.
Mark ZuckerbergEating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.
Maya AngelouBut, you know, it’s still a drag to get your picture taken when you’re eating a sandwich. It’s a downer.
Keanu ReevesReal food, I’ve found, is actually better than dieting.
Angelina JolieClearly this is a tough economic time, and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents, we talk about small changes for kids and things that don’t cost extra money. Like adding water and eliminating sugary drinks and sodas. That’s going to save money right there. Or adding a few more vegetables.
Michelle ObamaOne of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can’t swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it’s what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.
Maya AngelouSteak and Shake in Indianapolis is definitely the first stop when we hit that city.
Stephen CurryWhen I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked meats like ham, pork, beef, lamb, and bacon – all served with black beans and rice. It’s festive but different.
Maya AngelouIf investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.
Pope FrancisOh yes, there’s lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us.
Anthony BourdainI was ill, and everyone could see it but me.
George BestWithout health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.
BuddhaIf you’re a person struggling to eat and stay healthy, you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you’ll never have heard of Bill Gates.
Bill GatesI don’t think the ebbs and flows – get in great shape and then get out of shape and then see if you can get back into shape – is a good thing. So I prefer to keep my arm always ready to go.
Tom BradyPersonal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat – no matter who killed the meat for him.
Ernest HemingwayI know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training.
Jackie ChanHealth is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI don’t sleep much. I don’t sleep much – I work, I work, I work.
Kevin GatesI have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.
Michelle Obama‚Kitchen Confidential‘ wasn’t a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia.
Anthony BourdainIt occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
F. Scott FitzgeraldI think sometimes the best training is to rest.
Cristiano RonaldoThe wish for healing has always been half of health.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaPapa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
Charles DickensI have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother’s kitchen. If I don’t have time to cook, I’ll just read a cookbook.
Kamala HarrisWhen I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I’m in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn’t feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting.
Christopher HitchensWater is life, and clean water means health.
Audrey Hepburn