Food Quotes

I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food.

I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.

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.

Eating without conversation is only stoking.

The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.

Basically, there are two things we know: Everybody has less time, and the general public is demanding better food - better in terms of quality and better in terms of flavor.

The pride of the hipster food movement is sort of annoying, but it fascinates me.

When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail.

Just ask the local people for the best food. Don't rely on a guidebook.

I don't think there's going to be a day when I don't think about food or my body, but I'm living with it, and I wish I could tell young girls to find their safe place and stay with it.

I love Caribbean food. It's a great melting pot of so many cultures including the Native Americans.

Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li doesn't know how to do and Jet Li does a martial art that Jackie Chan doesn't know how to do. You can both go to two Chinese restaurants, but both can have different kinds of food.

When I said a few weeks ago that our people would eat cooking oil and olives if necessary, I didn't mean that there really would be only oil and olives. What I meant was that our people have the necessary patience to endure the current difficult situation. Palestinians would rather do without certain food items than their national rights.

Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

I started doing radio commercials for Kmart when I was 4. They had to splice all my consonants together because I couldn't talk very well. But these jobs helped my mother and me put food on the table. It took the two of us working.

The food in the House of Commons is fairly good. The cafe in Portcullis House is really very high quality, and you also have a choice of eating in the more traditional restaurants, the Churchill Room or the Members' Dining Room. I don't often eat in them, though, as I'm usually on the run.

What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

Like most North Americans, I'd been raised on the notion that milk is the first food, and everybody must like it because it's so good and so important for growing up and for being healthy.

My last meal? The food would be much less significant than the company.

They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.

When I go to a restaurant, I eat three-quarters of the food in front of me. That cuts my calorie intake by 25 percent.

Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.

If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.

We got Martha Stewart legitimizing homemaking for her generation, and then there's this return to being interested in all things home, lifestyle, and food again. I think this generation is less about the frills and more about the flavor of things.

If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.

Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food.