Food Quotes - Page 35

• Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.

  Ruth Reichl

  Community, Pull Ups, Taste

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• Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Men, Fool

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.289, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• We should resolve now that the health of this nation is a national concern; that financial barriers in the way of attaining health shall be removed; that the health of all it's citizens deserves the help of all the nation.

  Harry S. Truman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Health

  Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

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• Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.

  Vandana Shiva

  Nature, Growth, Crisis

  María Mies, Vandana Shiva (1993). “Ecofeminism”, Zed Books

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• I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory.

  Mitch Albom

  Mother, Memories, Meat

  Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.44, Hachette UK

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• For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.

  Khalil Gibran

  Humor, Men, Half

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.46, Lulu.com

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• Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it I wash my mouth out with chocolate.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Fitness, Dirty, Health

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• I wondered what you'd have on the side with a plate of Deep Fried Anxiety. Pickles? Coleslaw? Potato-strychnine mash?

  Robin McKinley

  Anxiety, Potatoes, Sides

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• Fat gives things flavor.

  Julia Child

  Weight Loss, Giving, Flavor

  "Julia Child: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. June 2001.

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• Just like becoming an expert in wine–you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford–you learn about great food by finding the best there is, whether simply or luxurious. The you savor it, analyze it, and discuss it with your companions, and you compare it with other experiences.

  Julia Child

  Drinking, Wine, Experts

  Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, Simone Beck (2011). “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”, p.16, Knopf

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• Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

  Lord Byron

  Laughter, Drinking, Wine

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 2, st. 178

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• What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Hair, Floating, Soup

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• The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.

  Erma Bombeck

  Hilarious, Funny Life, Odds

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• The 12-step chocolate program: NEVER BE MORE THAN 12 STEPS AWAY FROM CHOCOLATE!

  Terry Moore

  Yummy, Chocolate, Steps

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• All men are hungry. They always have been. They must eat, and when they deny themselves the pleasures of carrying out that need, they are cutting off part of their possible fullness, their natural realization of life, whether they are rich or poor.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Cutting, Men, Rich Or Poor

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.357, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and so celebrate the gifts of the world.

  Alison Croggon

  Clothes, Honor, Dresses

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• Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience our dependence and our gratitude, for we are living in a mystery, from creatures we did not make and powers we cannot comprehend.

  Wendell Berry

  Gratitude, Ignorance, Connections

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.152, Counterpoint

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• Remember the days when you let your child have some chocolate if he finished his cereal? Now, chocolate is one of the cereals.

  Robert Orben

  Children, Cereal, Cooking

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• Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things.

  Maurice Sendak

  Kings, World, Far Away

  Maurice Sendak (1964). “Where the wild things are”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain — Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies Come to life and fade away; What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Drinking, Beer, Glasses

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.229, Delphi Classics

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• Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

  Samuel Johnson

  Horse, Oats, Scotland

  A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)

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• I cannot go any further without mentioning my favourite biscuit of all time, now sadly, tragically, extinct. The oaty, crumbly, demerara notes of the long-forgotten Abbey Crunch will remain forever on my lips. I loved the biscuit as much as anything I have ever eaten, and often, in moments of solitude, I still think about its warm, buttery, sugary self.

  Nigel Slater

  Thinking, Self, Long

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• Very simply, we subsidize high-fructose corn syrup in this country, but not carrots. While the surgeon general is raising alarms over the epidemic of obesity, the president is signing farm bills designed to keep the river of cheap corn flowing, guaranteeing that the cheapest calories in the supermarket will continue to be the unhealthiest.

  Michael Pollan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Country

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.59, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Shake the hand that feeds you.

  Michael Pollan

  Hands, Healthy Eating, Culinary

  "In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto". Book by Michael Pollan, 2008.

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• Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

  Galileo Galilei

  Drinking, Wine, Water

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