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Quotes About Meals

Vegetarian: A person who eats only side dishes.
~ Gerald Lieberman
She shut the door and moved on to the floor-to-ceiling cabinets. "There is nothing here. Nothing. What do you eat?" "Ah…" Assail found himself looking at the cousins for aid. "usually we take our meals in town." The scoffing sound certainly appeared like the old-lady equivalent of Fuck that . "I need the staples.
~ J. R. Ward
People change, they eat meals year after year and change with every meal.
~ Jack Kerouac
For the Nugent family, fast food is a running herbivore.
~ Ted Nugent
The cat, morbidly obese from eating virtually all of Isaac's meals, fell off the table like a four-legged haggis, and trudged away.
~ Neal Stephenson
a post-agrarian religion in which literal sacrifice had been replaced by symbolic; they opened their meals with a re-enactment in effigy of that, then praised their God for a while, then asked Him for goods and services.
~ Neal Stephenson
This bright place isn't really a sanctuary. For, ambushed among its bottles and cartons and cans, are shockingly vivid memories of meals shopped for, cooked, eaten with Jim. They stab out at George as he passes, pushing his shopping cart. Should we ever feel truly lonely if we never ate alone?
~ Christopher Isherwood
This is my experience on 'RuPaul's Drag Race:' three square meals a day, a challenge and put to bed by 9:30 P. M. Honey it doesn't get any better than that.
~ Chad Michaels
If I'm jetlagging, and I've missed some meals, and it gets to that point in a movie that you're supposed to cry, I'll let my defences down from around my inherent standing level of cynicism, and I'll cry.
~ Henry Rollins
Meals and eating and that sort of ritual of gathering at a table is such a part of childhood, and that was such a strange moment. It made me nervous to watch my mom cook for us and then not engage in the act of eating with us.
~ Carrie Brownstein
I have to admit that out of 10 meals, nine I have at home.
~ Antoni Porowski
I realized that meals, too, are a spiritual service and that meat, bread, and wine are the raw materials from which spirit is formed.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Sanctimony and self-regard are as American as smallpox blankets and supersize meals.
~ Colson Whitehead
He didn't like to see either of the women in his family disappointed; it ruined perfectly good meals.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
Women have plans for themselves, for their children, about their home, the meals. They have a Vision. A man wants to enjoy himself.
~ Muhammad Yunus
I've made movies all over the world but I really like staying home. I can cook my meals, be a normal person.
~ Tawny Kitaen
Jane reached Western New York in the dark. It had been a seven-hour drive, but she had stopped for meals and breaks, and then had taken time to sleep for two hours at a rest stop. The urgency she had been feeling since the night the ancient woman had come to her in her dream seemed to burn in her until she had worn herself out. Now she was feeling stronger.
~ Thomas Perry
In Luke's Gospel Jesus is either going to a meal, at a meal, or coming from a meal.
~ Tim Chester
In time, foods such as hamburgers and ice cream became more than just meals. They became part of American history and culture, touchstones that are almost immediately nostalgic and sentimental no matter how old you are or what part of the country you are from.
~ Homaro Cantu
As I was growing up, all meals, including breakfast, were family occasions, and you all sat down to eat together - and you had to finish everything as well.
~ Mary Berry
The Master said, "A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby clothing or modest meals is not even worth conversing with." (Analects 4.9)
~ Confucius
A Family Home Powell shared her husband's interest in natural foods. While at business school, she had worked part time at Odwalla, the juice company, where she helped develop the first marketing plan. After marrying Jobs, she felt that it was important to have a career, having learned from her childhood the need to be self-sufficient. So she started her own company, Terravera, that made ready-to-eat organic meals and delivered them to stores throughout northern California.
~ Walter Isaacson
...Mr. Hanway endeavours to show, that the consumption of tea is injurious to the interest of our country.... he is to expect little justice from the author of this extract, a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has for twenty years diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant, whose kettle has scarcely time to cool, who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and with tea welcomes the morning.
~ Samuel Johnson, 1757
Leven is het weer. Leven is maaltijden. Lunch op een blauw-geruit kleed waar zout op is gemorst. De geur van tabak. Brie, gele appels, messen met houten handvaten.
~ James Salter