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Quotes About Sugar

Some Foods Are Like Candy You may love your bread, bagels, crackers, pizza, and pasta, but these foods can affect your body like candy.
~ Joel Fuhrman
The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer's shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the window.
~ Charles Dickens
DO I DETECT A NOTE OF UNSEASONAL GRUMPINESS? said Death. NO SUGAR PIGGYWIGGY FOR YOU, ALBERT.
~ Terry Pratchett
Maybe the reason we like stories so much is because they deliver wish fulfillment. Maybe we sit in the dark and shovel sugar into our mouths because in so many stories everything is made right, and we secretly long for that ourselves.
~ Donald Miller
Everything's better with cake
~ Jacqueline Wilson
Through the discovery of Buchner , Biology was relieved of another fragment of mysticism. The splitting up of sugar into CO2 and alcohol is no more the effect of a 'vital principle' than the splitting up of cane sugar by invertase. The history of this problem is instructive, as it warns us against considering problems as beyond our reach because they have not yet found their solution.
~ Unknown
Me he tomado también tu taza de café. Ya casi no tengo azúcar pero me acordé que a ti te gusta amargo. Sabe muy feo, cómo ésta soledad. Cómo éste estar deseándote a todas horas.
~ Unknown
Tomás rode his wicked black stallion through the frosting of starlight that turned his ranch blue and pale gray, as if powdered sugar had blown off the sky and sifted over the mangoes and mesquites.
~ Luis Alberto Urrea
He lives in kind of a different world from the rest of us. You know? The kind of world where electricity is a lot of invisible spiders. The kind of world where there's organ music that gets louder when he eats refined sugar.
~ Unknown
As the bulb of black cloud, lit by both sun and flame, hovered above the storehouses, the people of Leningrad looked on in choked awe. "It was an immense spectacle of stunning beauty," wrote Lyubov Shaporina. The air smelled sweet as tons of sugar burned.
~ Unknown
A spoonful of sugar can be as helpful in dealing with foreign diplomats as it is in child psychology, for these are not unrelated fields.
~ Madeleine Albright
Sugar syrup for ice tea is concocted by adding one pound of Dixie Crystal sugar to a tablespoon of water. In the south, sweetened ice tea is taken for granted, like the idea that stock car racing is our national pastime, or that the Southern Baptist church is a legitimate arm of the Republican party.
~ John Egerton
Why southerners are so sugar-fixated may be a mystery, but it is an indisputable fact. We are a breed who makes marmalades of zucchini, tomatoes, onions, and even watermelon rinds.
~ John Egerton
If you put a bit of butter or sour cream on your potato, the release of sugar into the bloodstream is slowed.
~ John Gray
Ce pays cultive la canne à sucre et les préjugés.
~ Malcolm de Chazal
La lengua de la mariposa es una trompa enroscada como un muelle de reloj. Si hay una flor que la atrae, la desenrolla y la mete en el cáliz para chupar. Cuando lleváis el dedo humedecido a un tarro de azúcar, ¿a qué sentís ya el dulce en la boca como si la yema fuese la punta de la lengua? Pues así es la lengua de la mariposa.
~ Manuel Rivas
Consider, for example, the tomato. If the soil it grows in is depleted, then the tomato has measurably low mineral content, less natural sugar, and more acids, which means it will be tough, tasteless, and nutritionally inferior. If it is sprayed with pesticides and herbicides, it will carry instructional messages to your body that are carcinogenic,
~ Marc David
If my father's business hadn't gone broke, I'd be exporting nuts, bolts and sugar machinery right now. What an awful thought!
~ Cesar Romero
An arrogant man is only showcasing his vulnerability. When life offers you lemon, add sugar and change it to lemonade.
~ Unknown
If only a small fraction of what is already known about the effects of sugar were to be revealed in relation to any other material used as a food additive, that material would promptly be banned.
~ John Yudkin
Fast food is inexpensive, convenient, and it tastes good. I'm all in favor of that. My problem is how heavily processed it is - how full of salt, fat, and sugar it is.
~ Eric Schlosser
Sugar is responsible for a lot of deaths. Arguably more than crack cocaine.
~ Guy Ritchie
We're in need for culture change. We're going to change the way you know you look at food, sugar, sleep.
~ Mike Conley, Jr.
Worry, shame, and fear can't be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.
~ Bill Crawford