Meals Quotes - Page 33

• A generation ago, three-quarters of the money used to buy food in the United States was spent to prepare meals at home. Today about half of the money used to buy food is spent at restaurants--mainly at fast food restaurants.

  Eric Schlosser

  Home, United States, Three

  Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People didn't really like McDonald's, same as her mum didn't really like Catholicism, but when you were new in town, at least it was a known quantity. So that'll be a Quarter-Pounder and a Communion Wafer meal-deal to go.

  Christopher Brookmyre

  Mcdonalds, People, Towns

  Christopher Brookmyre (2009). “Pandaemonium”, p.127, Hachette UK

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• I came back to Louisville after the Olympics with my shiny gold medal. Went into a luncheonette where black folks couldn't eat. Thought I'd put them on the spot. I sat down and asked for a meal. The Olympic champion wearing his gold medal. They said, "We don't serve niggers here." I said, "That's okay, I don't eat 'em." But they put me out in the street. So I went down to the river, the Ohio River, and threw my gold medal in it.

  Muhammad Ali

  Rivers, Ohio, Black History

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Sep 20, 2012

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• Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one.

  L. M. Boyd

  Love, Sex, Food

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• There are three proven rules for good teeth: brush after every meal; see your dentist twice a year; and mind your own business.

  Henry Boyd

  Business, Years, Mind

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• The movements of nature are in a never ending circle. The animal species which has once been put into a train of motion, is still probably moving in that train. For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another and another might be lost, till this whole system of things should evanish by piece-meal; a conclusion not warranted by the local disappearance of one or two species of animals, and opposed by the thousands and thousands of instances of the renovating power constantly exercised by nature for the reproduction of all her subjects, animal, vegetable, and mineral.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Nature, Moving, Animal

  "Revenge of the Meat-Eating Megatherium" by Brian Switek, www.wired.com. June 9, 2011.

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• Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and he would often go out of doors, after his morning meal, without either shoes or tunic; not that he sought vain-glory from such novelties, but he would accustom himself to be ashamed only of what deserves shame, and to despise all other sorts of disgrace.

  Plutarch

  Fashion, Morning, Doors

  Plutarch (2011). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.528, Bantam

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• No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Food, Lakes, Cooking

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• I'll simply say here that I was born Beatrice Gladys Lillie at an extremely tender age because my mother needed a fourth at meals.

  Beatrice Lillie

  Mother, Age, Born

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• Life is weather.  Life is meals.

  James Salter

  Weather, Life Is

  James Salter, Robert Phelps (2010). “Memorable Days: The Selected Letters of James Salter and Robert Phelps”, p.14, Counterpoint Press

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• Ham with mustard is a meal of glory

  Dodie Smith

  Ham, Glory, Mustard

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.154, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Like other Americans, I've reconciled myself to the idea that an animal's life has been sacrificed to bring me a meal of pork or chicken. However, industrial meat production - which subjects animals to a life of torture - has escalated the karmic costs beyond reconciliation.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Animal, Ideas, Meat

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• Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the Stooks arise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behavior Of silk-sack clouds! Has wilder, willful-waiver Meal-drift molded ever and melted across skies?

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Summer, Clouds, Wind

  Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Hurrahing In Harvest”

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• I went to work at seven in the morning. Around noon time we got the watery soup. And we worked until seven or eight or nine at night, sometimes later. And then I walked back home - there was no public transportation - into that shared room. And if there was food we would prepare an evening meal depending on what was available. And then probably go to bed because it was cold most the time. And then start the day all over again, six or seven days a week.

  Lucille Eichengreen

  Morning, Home, Night

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• A person who has spoiled his stomach will criticize his meal saying that the food is bad; the same thing happens with people who are not satisfied with their lives

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, People, Spoiled

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• My mother, for example, told the German officer not to kill her. She'd make it worth his while. And then, when they were doing it, she pulled a knife out of her belt and sliced open his chest, just like she used to open chicken breasts to stuff with rice for the Sabbath meal.

  Etgar Keret

  Mother, Knives, Example

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• Exercise will aid in the work of digestion. Take a walk after a meal; but no violent exercise after a full meal.

  Ellen G. White

  Exercise, Digestion, Violent

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• Water is the best liquid possible to cleanse the tissues.... Drink some, a little time before or after a meal.

  Ellen G. White

  Water, Littles, Liquid

  Ellen G. White (1994). “Healthful Living”, p.226, TEACH Services, Inc.

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• Lord of all  pots and pans and things make me a saint by getting meals and washing up the plates!

  Brother Lawrence

  Saint, Lord, Pot

  Brother Lawrence (1967). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.6, Baker Books

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• If you know where your next meal is coming from, you are not poor.

  Michael Oher

  Next, Poor, Knows

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• Sauces comprise the honor and glory of French cookery. They have contributed to its superiority, or pre-eminence, which is disputed by none. Sauces are the orchestration and accompaniment of a fine meal, and enable a good chef or cook to demonstrate his talent.

  Curnonsky

  Honor, Sauce, Chef

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• Water is the medicine for indigestion; it is invigorating when the food that is eaten is well digested; it is like nectar when drunk in the middle of a dinner; and it is like poison when taken at the end of a meal.

  Chanakya

  Taken, Medicine, Drunk

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• There is no occasion when meals should become totally unimportant. Meals can be very small indeed, very inexpensive, short times taken in the midst of a big push of work, but they should be always more than just food.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Taken, Midst, Should

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• Nearly everyone wants at least one outstanding meal a day.

  Duncan Hines

  Want, Outstanding

  Duncan Hines (1959). “Adventures in Good Eating”

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• Life is too short for cuisine minceur and for diets. Dietetic meals are like an opera without the orchestra.

  Paul Bocuse

  Life Is Too Short, Orchestra, Opera

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