Food Quotes - Page 18

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

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Humorous, Power

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• When I was a young fellow I was knocked down plenty. I wanted to stay down, but I couldn't. I had to collect the two dollars for winning or go hungry. I had to get up. I was one of those hungry fighters. You could have hit me on the chin with a sledgehammer for five dollars. When you haven't eaten for two days you'll understand.

  Jack Dempsey

  Motivational, Sports, Winning

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• Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.

  John Cage

  Cooking, Delay, Poison

  John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.164, Wesleyan University Press

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• When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money.

  Alanis Obomsawin

  Money, Nature, Cutting

  "Who is the Chairman of This Meeting? : A Collection of Essays". Book by Ralph Osborne (p. 43), "Conversations with North American Indians" by Ted Poole, 1972.

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• If there's anything I like better than honey and ketchup, it's baloney and whipped cream --- and we haven't got any!

  Moe Howard

  Comedian, Honey, Three Stooges

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• I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching death. I could not bear it. I cried like a child. I ran up a hill and could not breathe. I felt that I was choking. I felt the death of the lamb.

  Vaslav Nijinsky

  Death, Children, Pain

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Islamic

  FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from Sep 26, 2013

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• Taking all vegetable-eating nations together . . . they are a larger and much better formed race than the flesh eaters.

  Sylvester Graham

  Race, Vegetables, Together

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• Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Money, Power, People

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• Slow Food unites the pleasure of food with responsibility, sustainability and harmony with nature.

  Carlo Petrini

  Nature, Responsibility, Cooking

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• The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars lying to the public about their product. But no amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat. The facts are absolutely clear: Eating meat is bad for human health, catastrophic for the environment, and a living nightmare for animals

  Chrissie Hynde

  Lying, Health, Animal

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• You can be miserable before you have a cookie and you can be miserable after you eat a cookie but you can't be miserable while you are eating a cookie.

  Ina Garten

  Entrepreneur, Cookies, Television

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• Developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class-involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing-are not sustainable. A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmentally damaging consumption patterns.

  Maurice Strong

  Home, Air, Class

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• In the next ten years, one of the things you're bound to hear is that animal protein is one of the most toxic nutrients of all that can be considered. Quite simply, the more you substitute plant foods for animal foods, the healthier you are likely to be.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Health, Animal, Years

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• And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, makes complex sugars and foods, changes colors with the seasons, and self-replicates. and then why don't we knock that down and write on it?

  William McDonough

  Nature, Writing, Color

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• Self-centeredness will bring on the destruction of our world. National pride separates people. All people need the same thing. When you really get down to it, you'll find that all people need good food, clean water, clean air, and a decent environment, meaning education as to how to relate to one another and to avoid conflict, how to accept the differences where different people draw different conclusions.

  Jacque Fresco

  Education, Pride, Acceptance

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• All experience is a drug experience. Whether it's mediated by our own [endogenous] drugs, or whether it's mediated by substances that we ingest that are found in plants, cognition, consciousness, the working of the brain, it's all a chemically mediated process. Life itself is a drug experience.

  Dennis McKenna

  Life, Science, Drug

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• You can go a month without food, you can live three days without water, but you can't go more then sixty seconds without HOPE.

  Sean Swarner

  Inspirational, Hope, Water

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• Anything that is white is sweet.
  Anything that is brown is meat.
  Anything that is grey, don't eat.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Sweet, White, Meat

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• When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

  Mark Twain

  Men, Dinner, Surface

  Mark Twain (1984). “Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims and other salutary platform opinions”, Harpercollins

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• A true gourmet - a judge - has the wisdom to know when to stop eating.

  Mark Kurlansky

  Judging, Gourmet, Eating

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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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• 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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• 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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