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Quotes About Food

I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow.
~ Dean Koontz
The cost of food in the kingdom is hunger for the Bread of Life.
~ John Piper
People who are not interested in food always seem rather dry and unloving and don't have a real gusto for life.
~ Julia Child
As the body cannot be sustained without corporeal food, nor continue in natural life, so without this life-giving food the soul cannot persist in the spiritual life of grace.
~ Denis the Carthusian
I had no concept of this [healthy food] until very, very late in life, thanks to a trainer/nutritionist that I met who has been working with me since I was forty-five.
~ Sandra Cisneros
(Talon pulled another beignet from the sack and held it up for her to eat.) That stuff is hazardous to your health. (Sunshine) Baby, life is hazardous to your health. (Talon)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Carlos was probably somewhere warm, eating three meals a day, and sleeping in a real bed. That was the life
~ Susan Beth Pfeffer
Enjoy your food, enjoy your life.
~ Victoria Moran
Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life.
~ Maya Angelou
We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.
~ Laurie Colwin
I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.
~ Dylan Moran
"It's broccoli, dear.""I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it."
~ E. B. White
I think I want a guy who eats vegetables. And who isn't so normal. He was just a muffin, you know?
~ E. Lockhart
He might have left Amherst and traveled far away, to Italy or Mexico in search of beautiful food and adventure...Made small things exciting and beautiful, the way he knew how. pg. 246
~ E. Lockhart
I am the means and not the end. I am the food and not the life. Stand by yourself, as that boy has stood. I cannot save you. For poetry is a spirit; and they that would worship it must worship in spirit and in truth.
~ E. M. Forster
One doesn't come to Italy for niceness," was the retort; "one comes for life. Buon giorno! Buon giorno!
~ E.M. Forster
Well, din-din's nearly ready
~ E.M. Forster
If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.
~ Eamon de Valera
and I am attacking a wonderful Greek salad as viciously as any Turk who's just spent several weeks in London, where the food tastes like a desperately ambitious experiment.
~ Ece Temelkuran
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people.
~ Ed Bluestone
People who fish for food, and sport be damned, are called pot-fishermen. The more expert ones are called crack pot-fishermen. All other fishermen are called crackpot fishermen. This is confusing.
~ Ed Zern
Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away that's the deal.
~ Eddie Izzard
You piss me off you Salmon... You're too expensive in restaurants.
~ Eddie Izzard
I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.
~ Edie Brickell