882 private quotes tagged food

“Food is our common ground, a universal experience.”— James Beard

“I say grace. I'm a big believer in grace. I happen to believe in a God that made all the food and so I'm pretty grateful for that and I thank him for that. But I'm also thankful for the people that put the food on the table.”— Alton Brown

“We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough.”— Robert Mugabe

“In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.”— Robin Leach

“Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don't ever really get stressed out about the food.”— Sandra Lee

“The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.”— Cyril Connolly

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

“If I don't get food in my mouth, I'm still happy. If my pants are round my ankles, as long as I don't get arrested for indecent exposure, I'm happy. I'm worried about keeping my hair, not how it's combed.”— Michael J. Fox

“I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.”— Elizabeth Edwards

“If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children's mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean.”— Sitting Bull

“I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?”— Doug Coupland

“Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.”— Imelda Staunton

“I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.”— Jeff Bridges

“It's not difficult for me to stay healthy. I like healthy food.”— Heidi Klum

“The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.”— Mario Batali

“I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think it's perfectly all right to kill animals for food to eat, but don't do it because they think all the ways in which it's done are wrong.”— Jonathan Safran Foer

“I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a little bummed out when there is too much fancy stuff going on and it doesn't resemble the original dish at all.”— Drew Barrymore

“Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds.”— Jonathan Sacks

“Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away that's the deal.”— Eddie Izzard

“When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.”— Julia Child

“Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him.”— Helen Rowland

“I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.”— Joan Jett

“And if you look at the reality in the United States, where you have more than 40 million people below the poverty line and 42 million on food stamps, and then you look at poverty around the world, clearly the way we're running the engine of capitalism is not serving us well.”— Simon Mainwaring

“It has never made any sense to argue that, unique among the people of the world, Arabs are more concerned on a day-to-day basis about the treatment of people they don't know than they are about how they're going to put food on their own tables, or whether their sons will ever find a job.”— John Podhoretz

“Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.”— Mario Batali