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Quotes About Food

Many people in the world are killed by supper rather than by the sword.
~ Unknown
One way to get rid of your weight is to leave it on your plate.
~ Unknown
The world can be divided into two categories: those who eat to live and those who live to eat.
~ Unknown
There are two kinds of dieters: those who are always telling you what to eat and those who are always telling you what not to eat.
~ Unknown
My late wife Olympia was Goan and I've been to India many times. I love the food there. We used to do our shopping in Southall, where you can find cheap but wonderful fruit like mangoes, vegetables and spices. I didn't do much of the cooking, as Olympia did a lot - I was the under-chef and did some of the chopping.
~ Vince Cable
The food in the House of Commons is fairly good. The cafe in Portcullis House is really very high quality, and you also have a choice of eating in the more traditional restaurants, the Churchill Room or the Members' Dining Room. I don't often eat in them, though, as I'm usually on the run.
~ Vince Cable
The story of barbecue is the story of America: Settlers arrive on great unspoiled continent, discover wondrous riches, set them on fire and eat them.
~ Unknown
Non mi meraviglierebbe chela tua malattia fosse una conseguenza di questo odioso inverno che è durato un'eternità. Allora dovresti prendere le mie stesse medicine: cioè quanto più aria primaverile puoi; coricati molto presto, perché è necessario dormire, abbi cura dei cibi, mangia legumi freschi e non bere vini cattivi o altri pessimi alcolici. Infine pochissime donne e moltissima pazienza.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.
~ Virgil Thomson
Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for new friends, and for this evening of fellowship. We ask that you guide our conversations, and that they'll be pleasing to you. We thank you for this food and ask your blessing on it, and on the hands that prepared it. In Jesus' name, Amen
~ Unknown
Once upon a time, before pizzerias or Taco Bells, there was a troll named Rumpelstiltskin who began to wonder what a human baby would taste like.
~ Vivian Vande Velde
Every society is three meals away from chaos
~ Vladimir Lenin
I have tried carrots before. They are not too bad, even though you have to chew at them a lot. They come apart in bits, like a squeaky toy. And you can swallow them, just like pieces of a squeaky toy. But they are not treats. So I kept doing Sit, waiting for the real dog treat.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
By the time we got home, Grandma would be cooking breakfast, and Grandpa always slipped me something under the table—bacon, ham, a piece of toast. I learned to chew silently so that Grandma wouldn't say, "Are you feeding the dog again?" The tone in her voice when I picked up the word "dog" suggested to me that Grandpa and I needed to keep the whole operation quiet.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
I like children - fried.
~ W. C. Fields
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
~ W. H. Auden
If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.
~ W.H. Auden
I'm a salty, greasy girl. I give every french fry a fair chance. Could you just lay some lard in my belly?
~ Cameron Diaz
Christmas is a good excuse to eat everything.
~ Danny DeVito
If your fridge is full this Christmas, use nature's refrigerator - your car!
~ Anthea Turner
My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me.
~ Jake Gyllenhaal
I'm tired of eating your family's lousy, tasteless recipes," Dad said. "Tasteless recipes? My grandmother's rolling in her grave!" "It's from indigestion.
~ Neal Shusterman
Me and my girl split the buffet at KFC.
~ Kanye West