Food Quotes - Page 15

• An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

  A. J. Liebling

  Travel, Teaching, Home

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• It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Believe, People

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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, Yoga

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• Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Seated at Life's Dining Table, with the menu of Morals before you, your eye wanders a bit over the entrees, the hors d'oeuvres, and the things a la though you know that Roast Beef, Medium, is safe and sane, and sure.

  Edna Ferber

  Philosophy, Eye, Dining

  Edna Ferber (2015). “Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney”, p.2, Booklassic

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• You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.

  Erma Bombeck

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Kids

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• I didn't forget your breakfast. I didn't bring your breakfast. Because you didn't eat your din-din.

  Bette Davis

  Breakfast, Forget You, Forget

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• Of course I made many boo-boos. At first this broke my heart, but then I came to understand that learning how to fix one's mistakes, or live with them, was an important part of becoming a cook.

  Julia Child

  Mistake, Heart, Cooking

  Julia Child (2009). “My Life in France”, p.78, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• Actually, the true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection.

  Ludwig Bemelmans

  Artist, Perfection, Gourmet

  Ludwig Bemelmans (1964). “La bonne table”

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• My wife is on a new diet. Coconuts and bananas. She hasn't lost weight, but can she climb a tree.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Wife

  "The Haunted Smile: The Story of Jewish Comedians in America". Book by Lawrence J. Epstein, 2001.

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• Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

  Peter De Vries

  Art, Museums, Restaurants

  Peter De Vries (1982). “Madder Music”, Viking Press

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• Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.

  Jo Brand

  Weight Loss, Chocolate, Made

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• The [Five Second Rule] has many variations, including The Three Second Rule, The Seven Second Rule, and the extremely handy and versatile The However Long It Takes Me to Pick Up This Food Rule.

  Neil Pasricha

  Long, Three, Variation

  Neil Pasricha (2010). “The Book of Awesome”, p.68, Penguin

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• Why should you take by force that from us that which you can have by Love? Why should you destroy us, who have provided you with food What can you get by war?

  Chief Powhatan

  Love, War, Native American

  Address to Captain John Smith, delivered in 1609

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• A gastronomer who is not an environmentalis t is just stupid. Whereas an environmentalis t who is not a gastronomer is sad. It's possible to change the world even while preserving the concept of the right of pleasure.

  Carlo Petrini

  Inspirational, Change, Sad

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• Some people think plant-based diet, whole foods diet is extreme. Half a million people a year will have their chests opened up and a vein taken from their leg and sewn onto their coronary artery. Some people would call that extreme.

  Caldwell Esselstyn

  Taken, Thinking, Years

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  I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.

  Ray Charles

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Music

  Ray Charles (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”

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• I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.

  Giuseppe Garibaldi

  Love, Death, Country

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• The incarnation began with Jesus and it has never stopped . . . God takes on flesh so that every home becomes a church, every child becomes the Christ-child, and all food and drink become a sacrament. God's many faces are now everywhere, in flesh, tempered and turned down, so that our human eyes can see him.

  Ronald Rolheiser

  God, Christian, Jesus

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• The most important thing to remember about food labels is that you should avoid foods that have labels.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Important, Physicians, Labels

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• Countries like ours are full of people who have all of the material comforts they desire, yet lead lives of quiet (and at times noisy) desperation, understanding nothing but the fact that there is a hole inside them and that however much food and drink they pour into it, however many motorcars and television sets they stuff it with, however many well-balanced children and loyal friends they parade around the edges of it. . . it aches!

  Bernard Levin

  Country, Children, Car

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• Unless we change our food choices, nothing else matters. Because it is meat that is destroying most of our forests. It is meat that pollutes the waters. It is meat that is creating disease which leads to all our money being diverted to hospitals. So, it's the first choice for anybody who wants to save the Earth.

  Maneka Gandhi

  Money, Animal, Creating

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• I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings.

  Cesar Chavez

  Inspiring, Dog, Animal

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• No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.

  Booker T. Washington

  Men, Thinking, Race

  W. E. B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington (2012). “Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”, p.47, Courier Corporation

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• That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  People, Cooking, Get Better

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “The Moon by Night”, p.18, Macmillan

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• He is rich enough who does not want bread.

  St. Jerome

  Doe, Want, Bread

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