Good Eating Quotes

• 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, Food, Eating Good

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• Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

  Doug Larson

  Life, Hilarious, Food

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Family, Thanksgiving, Food

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

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• Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Love, Horse, Food

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  People who love to eat are always the best people.

  Julia Child

  Love, Food, Eating Good

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

  Virginia Woolf

  Love, Food, Sleep

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

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• A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.

  Paul Dudley White

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

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

  Cesar Chavez

  Food, Heart, Eating Good

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

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• Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Food, Eating Good

  1844 Essays: Second Series,'Nature'.

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• An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Get Well Soon, Health, Italian

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

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• Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.

  James Beard

  Food, Beard, Bread

  "The Soup & Bread Cookbook: More Than 100 Seasonal Pairings for Simple, Satisfying Meals". Book by Beatrice Ojakangas, p. 7, 2013.

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• If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.

  Cesar Chavez

  Love, Food, Heart

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• Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Funny, Life, Witty

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Apr 13, 2010

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Thanksgiving, Witty, Humorous

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• Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

  Voltaire

  Drinking, Food, Godly

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• The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison

  Ann Wigmore

  Motivational, Powerful, Food

  Ann Wigmore (1984). “The Hippocrates Diet and Health Program”, p.9, Penguin

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• Fake food -- I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut -- is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking.

  Julia Child

  Mean, Fake, Cooking

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• Good food and good eating are about risk.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Risk, Eating, Good Food

  Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.60, A&C Black

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• Kids nowadays...tend to go overboard [on] protein - something I believe to be totally unnecsssary...[I state in] my formula for basic good eating: Eat about one gram of protein for every two pounds of body weight.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Believe, Kids, Body Weight

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• An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating

  Wendell Berry

  Cooking, Mind, Fields

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.241, Counterpoint

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• It is vital that we provide North Dakota's children with nutritionally sound diets. That means ensuring that they are getting plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, and are developing good eating habits for their future.

  Kent Conrad

  Children, Mean, Vegetables

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• It took me five months to lose twenty pounds and it took me hours to gain it back. I mean it was magical how quickly it all happened. Going back to my poor eating habits after having really good eating habits my stomach was a little unsettled.

  Mila Kunis

  Mean, Twenties, Littles

  "Mila Kunis Interview, Black Swan". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. November 2010.

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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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• The Simi is very environmentally sound. Eat everything except for hooves. I don’t like those, they hurt my teeth. Thanatos don’t have hooves, do he? (Simi) No, Simi, he doesn’t. (Acheron) Ooo, good eating tonight. I get a Daimon for barbecue. Can I go now, akri? Can I? Can I? Can I, please? (Simi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Sound, Teeth

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• Akri? Can I keep him? See, he good eating. Lots of fat on this one. (Simi) No, Simi. You can’t keep the baby. His mother would miss him. (Acheron) But he want to go home with the Simi. He said so. (Simi) No, Simi. (Acheron) No Simi, no food. Nag, nag, nag. (Simi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mother, Baby, Home

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