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Quotes About Eating

many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great.
~ Sarah Josepha Hale
I have my mother's hips. The minute I eat it, it ends up on my hips.
~ Robert Herjavec
Every living cell in your body is made from the food you eat. If you consistently eat junk food then you'll have a junk body.
~ Jeanette Jenkins
Nature Boy, whats that? Do you run around the forest like Euell Gibbons, eating bark or something?
~ Roddy Piper
Nature will castigate those who don't masticate.
~ Horace Fletcher
Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.
~ Michael Pollan
... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.
~ Michael Pollan
If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
~ Wendell Berry
My favorite animal is the mule. He has more horse sense than a horse. He knows when to stop eating - and he knows when to stop working.
~ Harry S. Truman
Many dog owners believe that as much as 60 percent of their pet's brain is set aside solely to demonstrate applications of the verb "to eat"-in both the active and passive forms.
~ Stanley Coren
Animals were my pets, and the thought of eating my pets freaked me out.
~ Carrie Underwood
The poem begins, "About suffering they were never wrong, / The Old Masters: how well they understood / Its human position; how it takes place / While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.
~ Will Schwalbe
I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President.
~ William J. Clinton
Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
When it comes to food, we are, in essence, following an eating script that has been written into the circuits of our brains.
~ David Kessler
The less said about the things Steve ate for breakfast the better, though I will mention that the food did not want to be eaten, and Steve had to remove the singers before he could pop the things in his mouth.
~ David Liss
That's the nature of addiction. For many people, eating involves constant swings from unpleasantly hungry to uncomfortably full. On this roller-coaster ride, highly processed food may provide a few minutes of enjoyment, but it quickly sets us up for the next downward swing, with negative effects on our physical and mental well-being.
~ David Ludwig
When the bread basket comes to the table and I have a bite, people are like, "Oh, you eat bread?" I say, "Oh, my God, of course I eat bread. I'm human."
~ Eva Mendes
Of course we do not live in order to eat, but it is not really true to say that we eat in order to live; we eat because we are hungry. Desire has no further intentions behind it... it is a good will.
~ Emmanuel Levinas
I don't want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies.
~ Paula Deen
I like food. I like eating. And I don't want to deprive myself of good food.
~ Sarah Michelle Gellar
You have to eat to cook. You can't be a good cook and be a noneater. I think eating is the secret to good cooking.
~ Julia Child
Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.
~ Bennett Cerf
Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.
~ Yolanda Adams