QUOTES ABOUT FOOD

If more of us valued food, cheer, and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J.R. R. Tolkien

 

The most powerful social media is not the internet or Facebook—it is food. This connects all human beings.
Alex Atala

 

Food is not just fuel. Food is about family; food is about community; food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we eat well.
Michael Pollan

 

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

 

People who love to eat are always the best people.
Julia Child

 

After a good meal, one can forgive anyone, including one's own relatives.
Oscar Wilde

 

If you haven't eaten well, you can't think well, love well, or sleep well.
Virginia Woolf

 

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
Charles M. Schulz

 

Food is my drug of choice.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

 

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

 

I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed.  I eat whatever I want.  I just don't overeat.
Tyra Banks

 

There’s no sight on earth more appealing than that of a woman making dinner for someone she loves.
Thomas Wolfe

 

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.
Mae West

 

 

Only a pure heart can make a good soup.
Ludwig van Beethoven

 

The people who give you their food give you their hearts.
Cesar Chavez
 

Cooking demands attention, patience, and, above all, respect for the gifts of the earth. It is a form of worship and a way of giving thanks.
Judith Jones

 

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure.  In cooking, you've got...
The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. You have to have a what-the-hell attitude when cooking.
Julia Child

 

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

 

Food is never just something to eat.
Margaret Visser
 

We must have a pie.  Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.
David Mamet

 

When a man's stomach is full, it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
Euripides

 

I am not a glutton; rather, I am a food explorer.
Erma Bombeck

 

Cooking is like love.  It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
Harriet Van Horne

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.
Luciano Pavarotti

 

Eating what you want and letting the food fight it out inside is part of the secret to success.
Mark Twain

 

Food without wine is a corpse; wine without food is a ghost; united and well-matched, they are living partners as body and soul.
Andre Simon

 

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

 

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.
Epicurus

 

If music is the food of love, give me plenty of it; otherwise, the appetite will become sick and die.
William Shakespeare

 

So you can settle the fuck down. My mother used to say, "Primero comemos, entonces lo demás." That means, "First we eat, then we do everything else."
Brian Yorkey

 

Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.
Pythagoras

 

The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.
Frances Moore Lappé

 

My weaknesses have always been food and men, in that order.
Dolly Parton

 

One can say everything best over a meal.
George Eliot