Meals Quotes

• We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

  Epicurus

  Thanksgiving, Food, Beer

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• When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal.

  Jeffrey Wright

  Kitchen, Restaurants, Enjoy

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• These are the people who do studies that your carry-out Chinese meals are saturated in fat. I'd just like to meet them! I mean, what do they do for pleasure?

  Robert M. Parker, Jr.

  Mean, People, Chinese

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• The meals were served in a large hall, in which Moctezuma was accustomed to eat, and the dishes quite filled the room, which was covered with mats and kept very clean.

  Hernando Cortes

  Rooms, Cleaning, Dishes

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• And be careful of this, that each day at your meals you have two overseers over your household when you sit at meals, and of this be sure, that you shall be very much feared and reverenced.

  Robert Grosseteste

  Two, Over You, Each Day

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• People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.

  Louis de Bernieres

  People, United States, Photograph

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• I can remember at college, living on 30-cent meals.

  Sargent Shriver

  College, Remember, Cents

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• A meal can be an erotic experience in itself.

  Alex Comfort

  Erotic

  Alex Comfort (2003). “The Joy of Sex”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, I look at it like this: When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal. If the soup tastes good, everything's cool, and you don't necessarily want to know what's in it. The same thing holds true with movies.

  Jeffrey Wright

  Movie, Everything Happens For A Reason, Kitchen

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• I have the life of Riley. I take my kids to school, do a bit of work in the afternoon, pick my kids up, microwave a meal, hang out with my kids, and work for a couple of hours.

  Sheena Easton

  Couple, School, Kids

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• We spend millions of dollars per year supplying more than adequate meals and a Koran to every detainee along with a prayer rug that meets their religious standards.

  Bill Shuster

  Religious, Prayer, Years

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• You know, on the road, I never miss a meal. I eat five, six, seven times a day, depending on when I wake up and when I got to sleep. I never miss a training day. I always get my four days out of my seven.

  Warren Cuccurullo

  Missing You, Sleep, Training

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• I only eat one meal a day. Lunch, not dinner.

  Robert Goulet

  Lunch, Dinner

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• Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day.

  Mason Cooley

  Blessing, Three, Literature

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• Life is a combination of magic and pasta.

  Federico Fellini

  Funny, Food, Home Cooking

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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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• He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

  Jonathan Swift

  Food, Men, Oysters

  1738 Polite Conversation, dialogue 2.

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• I remember as a little boy I ate one meal a day and sometimes slept in the street. I will never forget that and it inspires me to fight hard, stay strong and remember all the people of my country, trying to achieve better for themselves.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Country, Stay Strong, Fighting

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• Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.

  Melody Beattie

  Gratitude, Fullness Of Life, Being Thankful

  Melody Beattie (2003). “The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections”, Hazelden Publishing

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• And so, Thanksgiving. Its the most amazing holiday. Just think about it — it's a miracle that once a year so many millions of Americans sit down to exactly the same meal as one another, exactly the same meal they grew up eating, and exactly the same meal they ate a year earlier. The turkey. The sweet potatoes. The stuffing. The pumpkin pie. Is there anything else we all can agree so vehemently about? I don't think so.

  Nora Ephron

  Sweet, Holiday, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Nov 22, 2012

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• I've never worked as much as I would've wanted to, and that's why I end up doing a lot of stage as well, because stage is a full course meal

  Holly Hunter

  Ends, Stage, Wells

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• Breakfast is a notoriously difficult meal to serve with a flourish.

  Clement Freud

  Food, Breakfast, Difficult

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• Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.

  James F. Cooper

  Christian, Suffering, Ease

  "The American Democrat: The Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, p. 189, April 1, 2010.

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• A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.

  Kathy Mattea

  Wine, Glasses, Gourmet

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• I eat five to seven meals a day and a couple of protein shakes

  Casper Van Dien

  Couple, Seven, Protein

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