Food Quotes

"We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people."

"If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?"

"Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are."

"Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on its delight is murder, and its end is despair."

"In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect."

"If I don't get food in my mouth, I'm still happy. If my pants are round my ankles, as long as I don't get arrested for indecent exposure, I'm happy. I'm worried about keeping my hair, not how it's combed."

"I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves."

"The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal."

"I was always a junk food person, still am."

"Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food."

"If I like a food, I'll eat it, even if I know it's not good for me."

"I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works."

"Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate."

"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small."

"No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company."

"The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'"

"It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top."

"We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted."

"Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness."

"And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul."