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Quotes About Food

I'm into fitness — fitness cupcake into my mouth.
~ Internet meme
A man has often more trouble to digest food than to get it.
~ Proverb
Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
~ Mary Catherine Bateson, 1984
I'm into fitness — fitness entire slice of pizza in my mouth.
~ Internet meme
Exercise?! I thought you said "extra slice."
~ Internet meme
Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow.
~ German proverb
Put cream and sugar on a fly, and it tastes very much like a black raspberry.
~ E. W. Howe, 1909
The security, stability, and firmness of the earth inspire those parts of my life that call for grounding. I give thanks to the earth for being the source of food, beauty, and my bones. I feel oneness with the rocks, the mountains, and Mother Earth...
~ Author Unknown
HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to lodge and feed certain persons who are not in want of food and lodging.
~ Ambrose Bierce
It is an unthinkable discrepancy that fifty-four men should consume the food intended for fifty-three.
~ Jack Vance
Even in this high-tech age, the low-tech plant continues to be the key to nutrition and health.
~ Jack Weatherford
With her husband dead and no other man willing to take her, Hoelun was now outside the family, and as such no one had any obligation to help her. The message that she was no longer a part of the band came to her, the way Mongols always symbolize relationships, through food.
~ Jack Weatherford
Cook had made us a big veal-and-ham pie and a potato salad, with a fruit tart and the remains of the Christmas cake for dessert. The children got crumbs all over their clothes.
~ Jacqueline Wilson
When we'd finished our ice creams Mum produced two cheese salad rolls, two packets of salt-and-vinegar crisps, two mini chocolate rolls, two apples, two bananas and two cartons of orange juice.
~ Jacqueline Wilson
Dad bought us food from every single stall on the pier – lemon pancakes and doughnuts oozing jam and salty chips and fluffy candyfloss and 99 ice creams, just as he promised.
~ Jacqueline Wilson
Some hae meat and canna eat, and some wad eat that want it. But we hae meat, and we can eat, Sae let the Lord be thankit.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
Maisie]:...going out for luncheon with a gentleman is definitely not the same as going out to dine in the evening. [Billy]: You get more grub at dinner, for a start -
~ Jacqueline Winspear
peckish, because everyone gets peckish now and again. And
~ Jacqueline Winspear
I like pickled onions, I like piccalilli. Pickled cabbage is all right With a bit of cold meat on Sunday night. I can go termartoes, But what I do prefer, Is a little bit of cu-cum-cu-cum-cu-cum, A little bit of cucumber.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
club, where everyone looked to be over sixty, even those in their thirties, and he showed Bruce how to order dishes that were the mainstay of the menu: beef with Yorkshire pudding and trifle.
~ James A. Michener
When a man makes his thoughts pure, he no longer desires impure food.
~ James Allen
It will be a great day for America, incidentally, when we begin to eat bread again, instead of the blasphemous and tasteless foam rubber that we have substituted for it.
~ James Baldwin
I am referring to something much simpler and much less fanciful. To be sensual, I think, is to respect and to rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread. It will be a great day for America, incidentally, when we begin to eat bread again, instead of the blasphemous and tasteless foam rubber that we have substituted for it.
~ James Baldwin
if we had some bacon, we could have some bacon and eggs, if we had some eggs!
~ James Evans