Food Quotes

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

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Change, Happiness

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The most powerful social media... it is not the internet, it is not Facebook - it is food. This connects all human beings.

  Alex Atala

  Powerful, Media, Internet

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• 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

  Family, Community, Identity

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Fitness, Art, Weight Loss

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  People who love to eat are always the best people.

  Julia Child

  Love, Eating Good, People

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• After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

  Oscar Wilde

  Family, Thanksgiving, Cooking Dinner

  1893 Lady Caroline. A Woman of No Importance, act 2.

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• One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

  Virginia Woolf

  Love, Sleep, Health

  1929 A Room of One's Own, ch.1.

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

  Charles M. Schulz

  Love, Funny, Valentines Day

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• Food is my drug of choice.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Choices, Drug

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1997). “An Accidental Autobiography”, Mariner Books

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• I like food. I like eating. And I don't want to deprive myself of good food.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Fda, Want, Eating

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• 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

  Want, Should, Feels

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

  Thomas Wolfe

  Love, Sight, Earth

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

  Mae West

  Humor, Sassy, Weight Loss

  "The wit and wisdom of Mae West".

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• Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Heart, Cooking, Soup

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• The people who give you their food give you their heart.

  Cesar Chavez

  Heart, Eating Good, People

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.352, Penguin

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

  Judith Jones

  Giving, Cooking, Attention

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

  Julia Child

  Attitude, Block, Real

  FaceBook post by Julia Child from May 15, 2012

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

  Dorothy Day

  Soul, Body, Culinary

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• food is never just something to eat.

  Margaret Visser

  Margaret Visser (2010). “Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Mea”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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

  David Mamet

  Stress, Pie, Cooking

  David Mamet (2010). “Boston Marriage”, p.34, Knopf Group E-Books

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

  Euripides

  Money, Men, Rich Or Poor

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• I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Humorous, Power

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

  Harriet Van Horne

  Love, Memorable, Cooking Dinner

  1956 Vogue, Oct.

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  your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Amusement, Body, Parks

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “Kitchen Confidential”, p.73, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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

  Funny Inspirational, Eating Good, Home Cooking

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