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Quotes About Eating

He was gobbling mincemeat, meatbone, bread, cheese, and pork pie, all at once: staring distrustfully while he did so at the mist all round us, and often stopping—even stopping his jaws—to listen. Some real or fancied sound, some clink upon the river or breathing of beast upon the marsh, now gave him a start, and he said, suddenly,—
~ Charles Dickens
All through dinner, Flora combined her present appetite for eating and drinking with her past appetite for romantic love, in a way that made Clennam afraid to lift his eyes from his plate; since he could not look towards her without receiving some glance of mysterious meaning or warning, as if they were engaged in a plot.
~ Charles Dickens
Anyhow, the hole in the doughnut is at least digestible.
~ H. L. Mencken, 1914
I'm all about fitness. Fitness taco in my mouth.
~ Internet meme, c. 2017
Practice safe eating — always use condiments.
~ Author Unknown
One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked.
~ Chinese proverb
Eating small, carb-dense meals will maintain a constant high level of glucose and insulin.
~ Grant Petersen
It was well known that she was a junk-food fiend. It was probably what kept her from the waif physique of the most popular girls. Personally I didn't care what king of saturated fats and granulated sugars were to blame for that excellent figure.
~ Guillermo del Toro
He sopped other dies of bread in the gravy and ate piece after piece of kidney.
~ James Joyce
And then the angel of death kills the butcher and he kills the ox and the dog kills the cat. Sounds a bit silly till you come to look into it well. Justice it means but it's everybody eating everyone else. That's what life is after all.
~ James Joyce
The waiter brought him a bowl of gumbo. Clete dipped the end of his po'boy sandwich into the bowl and began eating, drinking from his Bloody Mary, filling his mouth with French bread, oysters, lettuce and tomatoes, red sauce, and mayonnaise, stopping only long enough to wipe his chin with a white napkin.
~ James Lee Burke
I vill eat nine Snikuhs bahs visout bahfing
~ James Patterson
You mean other than the wings? I once ate nine snicker bars in a row without barfing. It was a record.
~ James Patterson
Do you like to eat things? -I love eating. I list it as a hobby.
~ James Patterson
out that shoes are required to eat in the cafeteria. But socks can eat anywhere they like!
~ James Patterson
Do zombies eat doughnuts with their fingers?" you might ask. No. They usually eat their fingers separately.
~ James Patterson
But unfortunately, when you have a kid, you sometimes eat everything they leave behind. So far today I've had some of her leftover pancakes with peanut butter.
~ Joely Fisher
Since I had my gastric bypass surgery in 1998, I eat like a bird. Unfortunately, that bird is a California condor.
~ Roseanne Barr
Unhealthy eating habits cause major health problems, such as diabetes and heart disease, and can also lead to food insecurity, disrupted eating patterns, and low self-esteem.
~ Matt Cartwright
I think people who become compulsive about fitness or eating right, a lot of the time it's out of fear that they're going to lose control or that they're not good enough, so I think anything done out of fear or motivated by fear is often unhealthy.
~ Mark Manson
I try and eat good. On the road, that's next to impossible. And we eat a lot of unhealthy things when we're in Texas - that's what you do there.
~ Justin Townes Earle
I always cringe when people tell me they don't eat breakfast, as though that's a good thing. Eek! You have to start the day off with something in your stomach to get your metabolism active. Also, the mental game of 'holding out,' not eating for as long as possible, at least for me, was a really unhealthy mental place.
~ Alison Sweeney
If I could eat without gaining weight or getting unhealthy, I would eat all the time.
~ Corey Johnson
I thought that I had a really healthy relationship with food, and I went home to my parents' house for a week because I cut my foot, and was recovering. I just ate loads, ate family meals, went along with group activities. And I realized how unhealthy my relationship actually is with food.
~ Alice Eve