Top 100 Food Quotes


1. Sandwiches are wonderful. You don't need a spoon or a plate! - Paul Lynde 

2. When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life. - Monica Bellucci 

3. The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about. - Damon Wayans 

4. Food is our common ground, a universal experience. - James Beard 

5. Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale. - Elsa Schiaparelli 

6. Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul. - Dorothy Day 

7. Sugar-free ice pops are an invention of God. They hardly have any calories since they're mostly water. I eat about 15 pops every two days. - Gene Simmons 

8. Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. - Peter De Vries 

9. Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal. - Sandra Lee 

10. I still eat a burger at a counter with ketchup dripping down my face. - Scarlett Johansson 

11. Real nutrition comes from soybeans, almonds, rice, and other healthy vegetable sources, not from a cow's udder. - Ingrid Newkirk 

12. I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days. - Rachael Ray 

13. What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it! - Jamie Oliver 

14. Stop being a vegan and start enjoying what you eat. - Jamie Oliver 

15. The kitchen oven is reliable, but it's made us lazy. - Jamie Oliver 

16. I like food. I like eating. And I don't want to deprive myself of good food. - Sarah Michelle Gellar 

17. Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good. - Ina Garten 

18. I love to take something ordinary and make it really special. - Ina Garten 

19. If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar. - Harold Wilson 

20. If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating. - Leigh Hunt 

21. I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream. - Heywood Broun 

22. Ever notice that Soup for One is eight aisles away from Party Mix? - Elayne Boosler 

23. I'm Irish, so I'm used to odd stews. I can take it. Just throw a lot of carrots and onions in there and I'll call it dinner. - Liam Neeson 

24. I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe! - Rachel McAdams 

25. I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good. - Virgil Thomson 

26. I do love Italian food. Any kind of pasta or pizza. My new pig out food is Indian food. I eat Indian food like three times a week. It's so good. - Jennifer Love Hewitt 

27. Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly. - M. F. K. Fisher 

28. Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures. - M. F. K. Fisher 

29. I like to say, 'Chop suey's the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another,' because chop suey, if you translate into Chinese, means 'tsap sui,' which, if you translate back, means 'odds and ends.' - Jennifer Lee 

30. Every meal should end with something sweet. Maybe it's jelly on toast at breakfast, or a small piece of chocolate at dinner - but it always helps my brain bring a close to the meal. - Robert Irvine 

31. Attitudes toward food have completely changed. - Giada De Laurentiis 

32. I always say centered food equals centered behavior. - Marilu Henner 

33. Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. - Lin Yutang 

34. Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food. - Mary Catherine Bateson 

35. Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are. - Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin 

36. We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day. - Mario Batali

37. In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted. - Mario Batali 

38. On my first date, my boyfriend asked me if I wanted to eat a la carte, and I said that I would prefer to stay inside! - Cristin Milioti 

39. The only think I like better than talking about Food is eating. - John Walters 

40. Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change. - John Walters 

41. That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible. - Daryl Hannah 

42. Anything is good if it's made of chocolate. - Jo Brand 

43. If I could only have one type of food with me, I would bring soy sauce. The reason being that if I have soy sauce, I can flavor a lot of things. - Martin Yan 

44. The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body. - Pat Buchanan 

45. Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals. - Finley Peter Dunne 

46. I eat a variety of foods like vegetables, fruit and beef for protein and iron. - Sasha Cohen 

47. Confit is the ultimate comfort food, and trendy or not, it is dazzling stuff. - Sally Schneider 

48. It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf. - Christopher Dodd 

49. Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices. - L'Wren Scott 

50. Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom's homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past. - Homaro Cantu 

51. I always think if you have to cook once, it should feed you twice. If you're going to make a big chicken and vegetable soup for lunch on Monday, you stick it in the refrigerator and it's also for Wednesday's dinner. - Curtis Stone 

52. Every two months, I allow myself a splurge day where I eat thick, doughy pizza from Pizzeria Uno or an ice cream sundae from my store with birthday-cake ice cream, Marshmallow Fluff, and toppings mixed in. - Dylan Lauren 

53. There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap. - Kevin James 

54. If I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time-out and eat some crackers. - Carol Alt 

55. I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. - A. Whitney Brown 

56. I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that. - Edie Brickell 

57. An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed. - A. J. Liebling 

58. Eating without conversation is only stoking. - Marcelene Cox 

59. You don't need a silver fork to eat good food. - Paul Prudhomme 

60. I think steak is the ultimate comfort food, and if you're going out for one, that isn't the time to scrimp on calories or quality. - Tom Colicchio 

61. I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook. - Robert Mondavi 

62. I think Australian food is probably some of the best in the world. - Karrie Webb 

63. Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop. - Vanessa Carlton 

64. I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens. - Alma Guillermoprieto 

65. Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family. - Roland Joffe 

66. I love spaghetti and meatballs... I eat a lot. - Susan Lucci 

67. As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter. - Victoria Moran 

68. My family lived off the land and summer evening meals featured baked stuffed tomatoes, potato salad, corn on the cob, fresh shelled peas and homemade ice cream with strawberries from our garden. With no air conditioning in those days, the cool porch was the center of our universe after the scorching days. - David Mixner 

69. I like to eat and I love the diversity of foods. - David Soul 

70. Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down. - Ken Hill 

71. I know my husband really loves me because he takes me to have ribs. He says I'm the only girl he ever took out who actually ate anything on her plate, as opposed to pushing it around. - Julia Barr 

72. Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat. - Neal Barnard 

73. The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill. - Bryan Q. Miller 

74. The kitchen is a sacred space. - Marc Forgione 

75. Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories. It's about sharing. It's about honesty. It's about identity. - Louise Fresco 

76. More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people. - Joseph Lelyveld 

77. If music be the food of love, play on. - William Shakespeare 

78. Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man. - Leonardo da Vinci 

79. Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body. - Marcus Tullius Cicero 

80. We farm workers are closest to food production. We were the first to recognize the serious health hazards of agriculture pesticides to both consumers and ourselves. - Cesar Chavez 

81. Food is an important part of a balanced diet. - Fran Lebowitz 

82. True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income. - P. T. Barnum 

83. Real food, I've found, is actually better than dieting. - Angelina Jolie 

84. I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta. - Naomi Campbell 

85. Food is not just eating energy. It's an experience. - Guy Fieri 

86. Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy. - Michael Pollan 

87. Groceries became a revelation: the people coming out with bundles of food. It's all like a great ceremony, and the whole drudgery of shopping has become my inspiration. - Corita Kent 

88. Do not allow watching food to replace making food. - Alton Brown 

89. The working class who toil everyday to pay their rent and put food on their families' tables are tired of being lectured by the fat cats in Washington and Brussels who preach what we need and when we need it. - Jeanine Pirro 

90. You do need some dispensation for local farmers, because the fast food industry will promote the unsanitary conditions of farming. With vegetables, you have to be careful where they come from; you have to know the farmers and trust them. If you buy from the farmers' market, it's already been investigated. - Alice Waters 

91. No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they don't have the resources. It's very unfair. - Rachel Brosnahan 

92. Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life. - Zac Posen 

93. If we pursue organic farming as our healthy food style, we can bring down cost of treatment to a great extent. - Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi 

94. Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business. - Jack Welch 

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

96. I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression. - Maya Angelou 

97. Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied. - Friedrich Nietzsche 

98. You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed. - Ronald Reagan 

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

100. In 49 countries around the world, including all of Europe, people have the opportunity of knowing whether or not they are eating food which contains genetically engineered ingredients. In the United States, we don't. - Bernie Sanders

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