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Quotes About Eating

Language gets learned in the context of interaction—in the context of eating and playing and asking for the names of things, not passively looking at a computer monitor. And that's
~ Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
At the time, it seemed to me that Jeremy was spending a lot of time with a piece of plastic pressed against his ear, talking to himself. Which was fine by me. We all have our eccentricities. Jeremy liked talking to plastic; I liked hunting and eating the rats that ventured into the motel room. Or, at least I did like hunting and eating the rats, until Jeremy caught me and promptly kiboshed that hobby. Some of us are less tolerant of eccentricities than others.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Penny, go see if she wants another sausage," Antone said. "I'd like to see her eating more." "I have a Snickers bar in my bag," the woman--Penny--said. "I'll take her that. Kids always like candy." "Not sure that applies to teenage girls, but you can give it a shot.
~ Kelley Armstrong
When the balance is broken then everything includes itself in power, power into will, will into appetite. So appetite, aided by will and power, becomes a universal wolf, at last eating up itself.
~ William C. Brown
I you're in prayer, take care of your heart. If you're eating, take cre of your throat. If you're in another man's house, take care of your eyes. If you among people, take care of your tongue.
~ Luqman
Engagements - they are like a prayer before eating, best quick.
~ Elizabeth McCracken
You can have a disordered relationship with food, but to have an eating disorder is indicative of a mental illness, which I think needs treatment and recognition in a different way.
~ Troian Bellisario
We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.
~ William Osler
I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.
~ William Shakespeare
Christ is the bread of life (John 6:35). Whatever we take into us as food will be assimilated into our being. This is very meaningful and significant. God is life to us in the form of food. We need to receive Him by eating Him. Once God enters into us, He becomes the flow of life within us. For proper eating we need food and drink. John 6 covers the bread of life for our eating, and John 7 covers the living water for our drinking.
~ Witness Lee
foods produce as much of a surge in blood glucose
~ David Perlmutter
Nine times out of ten, people pick the wrong food. No, it's not the sugar (GI = 68), it's not the candy bar (GI = 55), and it's not the banana (GI = 54). It's the whole-wheat bread at a whopping GI of 71, putting it on par with white bread (so
~ David Perlmutter
we seem to have a choice—bypass the gastrointestinal tract or bypass the highly processed diet.
~ David S. Ludwig
I like to eat and I love the diversity of foods.
~ David Soul
Comfort eating or pure greed? Most likely a mixture of both. Pieces of cake or biscuits or chocolate could instantly sweeten the sourness of my life. If you have been called gay all day in the playground, a cake when you returned home from school offered some consolation. A fairy cake of course.
~ David Walliams
Have you been eating them?" asked Sid, feeling that the bag was light. "No, the bag got ripped and I dropped some on the way." "A likely story!" "It's true!
~ David Walliams
Put your food dollars toward nutrients, not calories.
~ David Zinczenko
make sure your foods have less sugar than fiber.
~ David Zinczenko
They sold the furniture. There is nothing to sit upon and no table to set, so it is the kitchen for you, my girl. Pretend you are at Wuthering Heights. Everyone there ate in the kitchen.
~ Deanna Raybourn
The only think I like better than talking about Food is eating.
~ John Walters
Les animaux se repaissent; l'homme mange; l'homme d'esprit seul sait manger.
~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Dis-moi ce que to manges, je te dirai ce que tu es -- (Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are)
~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
I wanted to swallow myself by opening my mouth inordinately and turning it around over my head so that it would take in my whole body, and then the Universe, until all that would remain of me would be a ball of eaten thing which little by little would be annihilated: that is my way of seeing the end of the world.
~ Jean Genet
Woof," he said sadly. "Poor Hound," said Batty. "Poor Hound, indeed." Mr. Penderwick was not sympathetic. "Even he should know not to eat towels.
~ Jeanne Birdsall