Food And Eating Quotes - Page 4

• Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Life, Children, Humorous

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Oct 04, 2010

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• Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Food, Cutting, Vegetables

  Fran Lebowitz (2003). “Metropolitan Life/Social Studies”, Steidl / Edition7L

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• What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

  A. A. Milne

  Beauty, Food, Home Cooking

  "Not That It Matters".

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• We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

  George Orwell

  Running, Food, Gun

  George Orwell (2016). “The Road to Wigan Pier”, p.67, Jester House Publishing

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• There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Thanksgiving, Witty, Humorous

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• It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

  Meryl Streep

  Funny Inspirational, Children, Food

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• 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

  Food, Cooking, Firsts

  "13 Reasons Why: Tape 6, Side A". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2017.

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• I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure

  Anthony Bourdain

  Food, Adventure, Oysters

  Anthony Bourdain (2013). “Kitchen Confidential”, p.6, A&C Black

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• Watermelon - it's a good fruit. You eat, you drink, you wash your face.

  Enrico Caruso

  Drinking, Food, Faces

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• We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.

  Adelle Davis

  Funny Inspirational, Food, Health

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• Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

  Samuel Johnson

  Food, Cucumbers, Vinegar

  In James Boswell 'Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides' (1785) 5 October 1773

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• A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.

  Kin Hubbard

  Thanksgiving, Turkeys, Kitchen

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• To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Fitness, Art, Food

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• Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Food, Humor

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• Sometimes the way to a man's heart is through his talleywacker.

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Sex, Food, Heart

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• Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Drinking, Beer, Weight Loss

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1963.

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• So there I was, wondering what sort of things women would look for in a video game. I sat in cafés and listened to what they were talking about: mostly it was fashion and boyfriends. Neither of those was really the stuff of a good video game. Then they started talking about food - about cakes and sweets and fruit - and it hit me: that food and eating would be the thing to concentrate on to get the girls interested.

  Toru Iwatani

  Girl, Fashion, Sweet

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• Food is so fundamental, more so than sexuality, aggression, or learning, that it is astounding to realize the neglect of food and eating in depth psychology.

  James Hillman

  Food, Psychology, Fundamentals

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• Stopping the junk food and Eating well is partially about cooking well and having the skills to do that.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Skills, Eating Well, Cooking

  Source: deadline.com

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• People ask me: "Why do you write about food, and eating, and drinking? Why don't you write about the struggle for power and security, and about love, the way the others do?" . . . The easiest answer is to say that, like most other humans, I am hungry.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Struggle, Drinking, Writing

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.388, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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