— Henry Ward Beecher"No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it."
Food Quotes
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— Mahatma Gandhi"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."
— Dave Barry"The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl."
— Josh Billings"Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed."
— Mitch Hedberg"I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle."
— Mitch Hedberg"My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them."
— Charles Dickens"Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine."
— Andrew Weil"Everyone prefers some foods over others, but some adults take this tendency to an extreme. These people tend to prefer the kinds of bland food they may have enjoyed as children - such as plain or buttered pasta, macaroni and cheese, cheese pizza, French fries and grilled cheese sandwiches - and to restrict their eating to just a few dishes."
— Andrew Weil"Clearly, America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well."
— Janet Jackson"Food has always brought me comfort and the bingeing is triggered when I'm in a space that is not positive."
— Jonathan Sacks"Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds."
— Elizabeth Gilbert"Listen - of course money changes everything, but so does sunlight, and so does food: These are powerful but neutral energy sources, neither inherently good nor evil but shaped only by the way we use them."
— David Duchovny"I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter."
— David Duchovny"You're raising a kid and you give it food and shelter and, most importantly, you give it the feeling that it's special. I think people react to celebrities like that - I mean, they treat celebrities like children."
— Larry David"The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch."
— Helen Rowland"Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him."
— Tori Amos"Well, I have a lot of food references in my work."
— Hugh Jackman"I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we don't have a distinctive Australian food, so we have food from everywhere all around the world. We're very multicultural, so we grew up with lots of different types of food."
— Hugh Jackman"My gosh, I love food. If I wasn't an actor, I could be a completely different body shape right now."
— Hugh Jackman"If I'm a lush at anything, it's food and drink. I'm not materialistic in any way, but I value food."