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Quotes About Eating

of us were moved by the deep morality and sincere humanity on the part of the aliens. These were people who simply could not imagine doing any evil to anyone, people who liked eating well, drinking, even smoking, who enjoyed playing the violin [in one case] and tennis, and driving luxurious cars and executive airplanes (in the 1970s, when very few people in Italy could own a personal plane).…
~ Timothy Good
Fire. How quick. How purposefully it ate whatever had been built, what had been life. Cleansing somehow and scandalous in beauty.
~ Toni Morrison
We have some nachos left." Carlos motioned to a plate on the table. "But I don't suppose you're interested." "I already ate." Ian sat at the end of the table. "Anyone we know?" Carlos's amber eyes twinkled. "Ouch." He glared at Toni.
~ Kerrelyn Sparks
I ate a rough country terrine made of truffled pork with thyme and forgot about talking.
~ Kerry Greenwood
How many sandwiches did you eat at some thing like this? There were nearly twenty more on the trays. Did you leave some for propriety sake? She hadn't touched them. Wait, were they decorative?
~ Kevin Wilson
The food you put into your body works its way through your organs and bloodstream and is actually part of who you are. So every time you put crap in your body, you are crap.
~ Kim Barnouin
Klamath was all about fishing and socializing and cooking and eating, and waking up the next day to start over again.
~ Kim Gordon
Aelfa assures me you eat small children every morn to break your fast. Do you? (Callie) Nay, I find them to be too harsh on the belly. All that moving around once they're swallowed. Not worth the effort, really. (Sin)
~ Kinley MacGregor
I also try to eat as much raw food and clean food as possible.
~ Kirsty Gallacher
Running in desperate fear for your life is pretty much a righteous justification for eating junkfood.
~ Koontz
Vegetarianism announces that it will destroy the pleasure of meals as they are now experienced. Thus it is a given that vegetarians will be unable to determine the shape of the discourse when eating with meat eaters.
~ Carol J. Adams
Through butchering, animals become absent referents. Animals and name and body are made absent as animals for meat to exist. Animals' lives precede and enable the existence of meat. If animals are alive they cannot be meat. Thus a dead body replaces the live animal. Without animals there would be no meat eating, yet they are abent from the act of eating meat because they have been transformed into food (51).
~ Carol J. Adams
Anorexia isn't about being fat, it's about having fat.
~ Caroline Kettlewell
One woman's tub of cottage cheese is another's maxed-out MasterCard; one woman's soul-murdering love affair is another's frenzied eating binge. The methods may differ, but boil any of these behaviors down to their essential ingredients and you are likely find a particularly female blend of anxiety, guilt, shame, and sorrow, the psychic roux of profound—and often profoundly misunderstood—hungers.
~ Caroline Knapp
If it ran, a Bean would eat it. If it fell, a Bean would eat it.
~ Carolyn Chute
You have to find a balance with food in your life - you can't take out food. It can be absolutely terrifying.
~ Carre Otis
Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol.
~ Carre Otis
I eat so poorly during the stressful part of my day I need to have a vegetable orgy for dinner just to make up for it.
~ Carrie Latet
Tessa poked at her left incisor with her tongue. It was flat again, an ordinary tooth. "I don't understand what makes them come out like that!" "Hunger," said Jem. "Were you think about blood?" "No." "Were you thinking about eating me?" Will inquired. "No!" "No one would blame you," said Jem. "He's very annoying.
~ Cassandra Clare
If you knew how to cook, maybe I would eat," Jace muttered. Isabelle froze, her spoon poised dangerously. "What did you say?" Jace edged toward the fridge. "I said I'm going to look for a snack to eat." That's what I thought you said." Isabelle turned her attention to the soup.
~ Cassandra Clare
How long has it been since you've eaten? My faith is all the nourishment I need. Faith is like porridge. Better with milk and honey.
~ George R.R. Martin
This is good eating,' whispered Taki to my surprise, for the fish, if anything, looked highly poisonous.
~ Gerald Durrell
Vegetarian: A person who eats only side dishes.
~ Gerald Lieberman
Food's Effect on the Body: While it's not quite as simple as saying some foods are good and some aren't, it is reasonable to say that most foods do skew one way or the other
~ Gerald M. Lemole