Quotes About Connection

At the end of the day, when the food has all been served and savored, what's left is your connection to the people around your fire

It's more intimate. Food can connect people in a forever sort of way.

It is not 'only' food, I said heatedly. There's meaning hidden underneath each dish.

Well, food's always the way to anybody's heart, I think, guy or girl.

We have a need for enchantment that is as deep and devoted as our need for food and water.

What was that you were saying just before the food arrived? Something about me... no competition... best thing that ever happened to you.

You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.

The sharing of food is like breaking bread, it's very symbolic.

Food is one of the great organizing tools.

Works of art are viewed by people. They are heard by people. They are felt by people. They are not just the fodder of a close-knit group of initiates. They are the soul food of all people.

I've liked lots of people 'til I went on a picnic jaunt with them.

There's a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

There's sure no passion in the human soul, But finds its food in music.

We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food.

Entertainment, in the end, is a food industry for feeling.

Food is the place where you begin.

I probably grow half my food. It's a good way to keep perspective.

I come from food the way some people come from money. Food was the medium I grew up in, what we talked about, what shaped our days.

Just give food without showing affection, [animals] might not get sort of 100% satisfaction. So they also, you see, when we human beings, we show affection, the poor animal also respond to us.

What makes the farmers market such a special place is that you are actually creating community around food.

Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.

Why don't we pay more attention to who our farmers are? We would never be as careless choosing an auto mechanic or babysitter as we are about who grows our food.

Eating more consciously now feels like a way of being. I actually think about how my food got to my plate.

I imagine a certain amount of consumer impulse will be replaced by community connection. You can already see it starting with things like the local food movement.