Quotes About Eating

When I was in the Far East, I was asked not to mention the Big Crunch, because of the effect it might have on the market. But the markets crashed, so maybe the story got out somehow. In Britain, people don't seem too worried about a possible end twenty billion years in the future. You can do quite a lot of eating, drinking and being merry before that.

I've always found wildlife very calming-- except when animals are eating each other, of course.

I don't believe you can ever really cook unless you love eating.

I like to eat and I love the diversity of foods.

Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.

Most people know how to cook, very few know how to eat. Go Organic! -Johnny The Walker

on the front porch on the squeaky rocker, eating with one hand,

But, you see, the water-going dinosaur likes to eat people. It's envisioned that it might swim through the newly acquired waterways, due to the ice melting and find its way to warmer waters and make its way to our civilization. Then, much like an old Japanese monster movie, start tearing down cities and eating fleeing citizens, stomping pedestrians, and receiving an air strike.

The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way to care about things, but also not to alienate yourself from the rest of the world. But it's so much more alienating than vegetarianism.

The custom is so ancient that no one takes offence. In Zanzibar the secondary wives had a system of sub-distinctions. The handsome and expensive Circassians, fully conscious of their superior merits and value, refused to sit at table with the brown Abyssinian women. Thus each race, in accordance with a tacit understanding, kept to itself when eating.

He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well.

It had all been an endless, meaningless round of theater performances that he now couldn't remember and long stays at country houses and dances and card parties and eating and drinking to excess and more eating and drinking to excess—and nothing to show for any of it.

He was desperate to tell his news to some other cat; he almost felt that if a mouse crossed his path he would stop to inform it that it was about to be eaten by a ThunderClan deputy.

chewing and gulping.

Oh, I ate a frog late in the evening

The way you teach a child to eat well is through example, enthusiasm, and patient exposure to good food. And when that fails, you lie.

No one is doomed by genes to eat badly. Pickiness is governed more by environment than biology.

Your first job when eating is to nourish yourself.

The power siblings have over our eating habits is no small thing. yet we hardly ever talk about these familial influences.

It is possible to educate children in the pleasures of food; and that doing so will set the children up for a lifetime of healthy eating. Feeding is learning.

It is not about learning to like this or that vegetable; but developing an overall attitude to eating that is more open to variety and less governed by the simple sugar-salt-fat palate of junk food.

The rise of vast portions - particularly in fast-food restaurants - means that if we eat only the calories we need, we should often stop at half of something; or even a quarter. And no one - child or adult - seems to like the feeling of the glass- - or plate - half empty.

But something important about eating is lost when meals are never – or almost never – timed to be taken together. There's an old word, 'commensality', which literally means eating at the same table. The food anthropologist Claude Fischler has written that commensality is what provides the fundamental human 'script' of eating in every society. It was how basic bonds of kinship were forged

Japan has somehow managed to achieve the ideal attitude to eating: an obsession with culinary pleasure that is actually conductive to health.