food quotes

Never order food in excess of your body weight.

Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors – that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

I love Velveeta cheese.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city’s food for the rest of my life, every day. It would have to be Tokyo, and I think the majority of chefs you ask that question would answer the same way.

Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.

I was mischievous. I wasn’t bad. I stole food so we could eat. My mother didn’t know. I used to tell her some man gave me $10 to sweep out the yard. I was like Robin Hood. I took from the rich and gave to the poor. Me.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

I hid myself in food.

You don’t come into cooking to get rich.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

I won’t eat anything green.

Let’s face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.

The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.

I would say there are some foods that I strongly recommend that you do not eat. No. 1 on that list, I believe, is doughnuts. Comfort food. Zero value. Don’t eat them.

I eat steak primarily. That’s pretty much what my diet consists of. Sometimes I supplement that with other steaks.

I’ve never eaten a strawberry in my life. I have no desire to do that.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

The boys know they’re from Southeast Asia, and they have their food and their music and their friends, and they have a pride particular to them.

We have food all around us all the time, and if we haven’t eaten for three hours, we think we’re starving. You’re not starving – human beings can go for 30 days without food.

I have much more support than most women around this world, and I have the financial means to have a home and help with care and food.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

In New York I pretty much live in diners – I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

Ice-cream is exquisite – what a pity it isn’t illegal.

You just feel a little odd when you don’t get your kind of food. Fortunately, there are Indian restaurants all over the world.

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

Think of our physical sustenance. It is truly heaven-sent. The necessities of air, food, and water all come to us as gifts from a loving Heavenly Father.

I love trying out different cuisines. In Delhi, I love Megu at the Leela, and TK’s at the Hyatt. I also enjoy Khan Chacha’s rolls. In Mumbai, it’s Royal China and Shiro. And in Bangalore, I like the food at Bricklane.

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

Find what’s hot, find what’s just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.

Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn’t eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!

My dinners at home are startlingly simple. Every night, I stop at the market near my hotel and pick up a steak, lamb chops or some liver, which I broil in the electric oven in my room. I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots.

I love food.

So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.

But, you know, it’s still a drag to get your picture taken when you’re eating a sandwich. It’s a downer.

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.

Hunger is the best pickle.

We never repent of having eaten too little.

Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it’s Shillong, it’s northeastern.

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

I did this book ‚Harvest for Hope,‘ and I learned so much about food. And one thing I learned is that we have the guts not of a carnivore, but of an herbivore. Herbivore guts are very long because they have to get the last bit of nutrition out of leaves and things.

I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.