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Quotes About Food

Just follow my first rule of life, Dan said as he got out of the Jeep. Everybody's gotta eat. … How did you know a guy named Joe worked here? Amy asked as they dropped the food bags on a table. That's my second rule of life, Dan said. There's always a guy named Joe.
~ Jude Watson
least the meal was good. Obi-Wan bent over, inhaling the aroma, and took another bite. Qui-Gon would advise him to eat. He never believed in wasting an opportunity, even for food. He remembered one of the life lessons of the Masters when he was just a Padawan, something Qui-Gon liked to quote: When food arrives, eat.
~ Jude Watson
There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection IS the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted.
~ Judith Martin
Eat it or wear it
~ Judy Blume
Fudge. If I decided not to eat they'd probably never even notice!
~ Judy Blume
don't you scrub up and have your dinner, and then you can decide where to go," Mom said. I didn't want to admit that I was hungry, but I was. And
~ Judy Blume
He wants all these things because it is Himself that enjoys and appreciates them; it is God who wants to play, and sing, and enjoy beauty, and proclaim truth and wear fine clothes, and eat good foods. "It is God that worketh in you to will and to do," said Paul.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.
~ Walt Kelly
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
~ Walter Bagehot
The narrative knows the way in which hungry peasants, in need of food from the monopoly, will pay their money, then forfeit their cattle, and then finally give up their land, because Pharaoh leverages food in order to enhance his power. In the end, the peasants are so "happy" that they asked to be "owned":
~ Walter Brueggemann
It's a very odd thing—As odd as can be—That whatever Miss T. eatsTurns into Miss T.
~ Walter de La Mare
Two large, soft traveling bags weighed down his shoulders by their straps. Holo adverts blossomed into life around him. He walked lightly, scanning the people waiting for the shuttle. Food smells came out of the fast eateries across from the gate. The air hummed with the noise of business.
~ Walter Jon Williams
The people celebrate with our traditional dancing: the women clapping their hands and chanting, their low sweet voices humming across the desert night, and the men leaping high into the air. Everyone contributes food, and we eat
~ Waris Dirie
Roast beef and plum pudding are also held in superstitious veneration, and port and sherry maintain their grounds as the only true English wines; all others being considered vile, outlandish beverages.
~ Washington Irving
Benjamin Hey, who wants Chinese Takeout I know a great place Wayne I'll have the cream of sum yung guy.
~ Wayne's World
Well it's like eating at my mom's you get what's being served and if you don't like it they still make you eat it
~ Wen Spencer
Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
~ Wendell Berry
Who wants avocado?
~ Wendy Lustbader
My sweat smells like peanut-butter.
~ Wendy Mass
Admit it, if you suddenly had magical powers, you would have turned that leftover meat loaf into pizza, too.
~ Wendy Mass
Randall went through two whole loaves of bread in one day
~ Wendy Mass
A summer full of cheap food, folding chairs, and home-cooked meals. Those good times were so going to roll.
~ Wendy Wax
As Wegner explained, "We stay awake worrying that we cannot sleep, and we spend all day mentally in the refrigerator when we are hoping to diet.
~ Wendy Wood
By separating habitual cues from conscious awareness, the study showed that we eat in response to available cues: as long as there's food on our plate, we keep going.
~ Wendy Wood