Food quotes

Indulge in the wisdom of food quotes - a palate-pleasing collection of words that celebrate the art, joy, and nourishment found in every delicious bite. Explore delectable insights and savory musings about the universal language of food.

She helped just enough so she could get what she wants. Food and a bed. She’s like a stray dog.

- Lucas Sinclair

I'm a simple man. I like pretty, dark-haired women, and breakfast food.

- Ron Swanson

There has never been a sadness that can’t been cured by breakfast food.

- Ron Swanson

There must be a mistake, you've accidentally given me the food that my food eats.

- Ron Swanson

Breakfast food can serve many purposes.

- Ron Swanson

When I eat, it is the food that is scared.

- Ron Swanson

If there were more food and fewer people, this would be a perfect party.

- Ron Swanson

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.

- Mary Catherine Bateson

Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.

- Tony Snow

I woke up find a rather noisy multi-lingual meeting going on. This was great as everyone could participate and even though everything had to be translated into about four different languages it never became boring. After a while the meeting broke up and everyone went for food.

- John Blair

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

- James Thurber

Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.

- Michael Pollan

I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom.

- Joseph Hume

A lot of food shows need only to tempt. Some food shows only need to inspire, to empower. And there are a lot of shows that do that.

- Alton Brown

A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.

- Katherine Whitehorn

I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

- Al Lewis

In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors'.

- Emanuel Celler

I live in a kind of gay bubble. I live in a gay house, I drive a gay car. I eat gay food.

- Julian Clary

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with young children are insufficient. We will never control this rising epidemic without greater accountability from the food industry.

- Bob Filner

America is becoming more and more dependent upon imports from foreign manufacturers than we are exports from our country in all fields: in appliances, in clothing, even food. This year America may become for the first time in its history a net food importer.

- Marcy Kaptur

Now the restaurants have begun to catch up with the wine-making; there are numerous great restaurants in Napa Valley, and it's wonderful because the people are there for just that: great food and great wine.

- Thomas Keller

Thom is one of those wonderful people to cook for because he absolutely loves it, just loves it. He loves to eat and drink and he'd be a great guest at any dinner party.

- Ted Allen

But my answer to that question would have to be, aside from the obvious, which is the people and the relationships that you garner over a long period of time but the catering. The catering. They're the best. So it's the food.

- Richard Dean Anderson

There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.

- Nigella Lawson

I normally don't eat junk food.

- Martin Yan

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

- A. J. Liebling

In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted.

- Mario Batali

I fed them every day. So it was a papa that kept food on the table for them. I did that. I did my part.

- Joseph Jackson

We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come and to which we will then be able to provide food and water and medical help.

- Les Aspin