Food Quotes (1717 Quotes)

Food that walked and talked, that was us. McPeople.

Old stories would tell how Weavers would kill each other over aesthetic disagreements, such as whether it was prettier to destroy an army of a thousand men or to leave it be, or whether a particular dandelion should or should not be plucked. For a Weaver, to think was to think aesthetically. To act--to Weave--was to bring about more pleasing patterns. They did not eat physical food: they seemed to subsist on the appreciation of beauty.

I want to live for something. I don't want to live to get charity food to give me enough strength to go back to get more charity food.

There was nothing left of Earth. They had leeched away the last atoms of its substance. It had nourished them, through the fierce moments of their inconceivable metamorphosis, as the food stored in a grain of wheat feeds the infant plant while it climbs towards the Sun.

I stopped in the middle of that building and I saw - the sky. I saw the things that I love in this world. The work and the food and time time to sit and smoke. And I looked at the pen and said to myself, what the hell am I grabbing this for? Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am! Why can't I say that, Willy?

The sky was thick with TV. If you wore special glasses you could see them spinning through the sky among the bats and homing birds-blondes, wars, famines, football, food shows, coups d'état, hairstyles stiff with hair spray. Designer pectorals. Gliding towards Ayemenem like skydivers. Making patterns in the sky. Wheels. Windmills. Flowers blooming and unblooming.

And here is the shocking plot twist: as farmers produced those extra calories, the food industry figured out how to get them into the bodies of people who didn't really want to eat 700 more calories a day.

Corn syrup and added fats have been outed as major ingredients in fast food, but they hide out in packaged foods too, even presumed-innocent ones like crackers.

Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the kind. Culture is the property of a species.

Nothing makes me happy quite like a boatload of freshly fried fast food, smothered in good old MSG.

Sometimes I had the feeling that all of us in his family were like pets to him. The dog you take for a walk, the cat you play with and that curls up in your lap, purring, to be stroked - you can be fond of them, you can even need them to a certain extent, and nonetheless the whole thing - buying pet food, cleaning up the cat box, and trips to the vet - is really too much. Your life is elsewhere.

I was quite happy in my new place, and if there was one thing that I missed, it must not be thought I was discontented; all who had to do with me were good, and I had a light airy stable and the best of food. What more could I want? Why, liberty!

As long as you're in the food business, why not make sweets?

What we are fighting isn't godlessness--this is the most godly country on earth. We aren't even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines... that helps. When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.

While our customers desire great-tasting food, prepared fast and at a good value, each divergent group wants something very different from us. Although we are meeting many of the needs, we have learned we have an opportunity within an important growth engine in our industry.

The activities kind of keep it off our mind. If there's anytime at all, you think of food.

It's based on competing on your presentation, how good is your layout, of course the food, flavor, taste, the smell. It's judged and everybody is out here to enjoy a good time.

As a matter of fact, I've been to Italy many times before I met my husband, which he can't even imagine that I could possibly know anything about Italian food. But, you know, Italian food's really basic, and there's so many different variations on it that what my husband did is he broke it down for me.

Everyone who has been identified as a close contact has been treated. Those people who are at risk are household contacts, like roommates or people who come in close contact with the person through kissing or sharing of food or drink.

I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front.

I can't wait for the food to be distributed properly. I need it desperately and I'll take it.

Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain rain itself is the water of life, which comes from selfless worship and service.

We want to make sure there are assurances that that food is going to those who need it, not to the government and not to the military in North Korea.

Specialists have given an answer after intense discussion. Looking ahead, I will implement the processes that are needed such as clearing up the issue of food safety and gaining the understanding of the general public.

Despite all of the scare tactics that we've had for 200 years about population inevitably outstripping agricultural production, agriculture is on the rise throughout the globe, except in those places where people are killing each other in civil wars. In the U. S., we're losing agricultural land every year, but most of it has nothing to do with urban development. Most of it's just because you don't need the land. The amount of land we have for agriculture is so great that about 50 percent of the annual income of farmers in the U. S. is government subsidy, because we just don't need all of that food.

Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down.

No human ear shall ever hear me speak; No human dwelling ever give me food, Or sleep, or rest but, over waste and wild, In search of nothing, that this earth can give, But expiation, will I wander on --A Man by pain and thought compelled to live, Yet loathing life -- till anger is appeased; In Heaven, and Mercy gives me leave to die.

Yet the bars, goos, and ices are no substitute for real food. Energy bars are manufactured products, ... What you're missing from any kind of manufactured product are the benefits from nature -- the chemicals that aren't vitamins or minerals, but are phytochemicals -- which are still beneficial to our health.

Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you music cannot punish -- only bless.

Furthermore I will just have to see what the future will bring me. But a change of food whets the appetite.

We just want to assure people of the safety of the food supply.

Would anyone advocate that we take the fences off the playground for elementary schools and just let kids run around in the streets ... By the same token, why would we allow schools to sort of poison our kids with junk food.

They're carrying all the food and water that they possibly can, ... Also their bedding and their backpacks. They will actually stay where they go. They don't know if it's on the ground or if there will be a tent or anything, they won't know until they get there.

I truly believe the reason cancer rates and stress levels are rising is all the toxins we are absorbing through our food, air and water.

There are no plans at this stage to stop flights coming in but the situation is very uncertain. We have several aircraft scheduled for this week to bring in food for tens of thousands of people.

My hands and feet were tied. I had a blindfold on the whole time. They would turn on a small light like a refrigerator light bulb, about that bright. After I ate the food they would turn it off and lock the door again.

I think on the field I'm a complete corner. I'm going to be out there -- the guy competing 110 percent every play. Off the field I don't think you'll see me get in any trouble -- I'll go to practice, go home, get some food, get some sleep, (and) go back to practice.

My idea of fast food is a mallard.

What this does is to turn food into medicine, ... Omega-3's occur naturally in food like fish, chicken and eggs, and plants to a lesser extent. Why do we need to get it from bread

For the poor people, they might represent the problem in terms of food production, in particular, drought and flooding. And the problem is increasing.

I really liked German food. And it's very clean... It's a very clean country. They kind of get rid of the waste really well... the garbage.

This information is not being adequately disseminated to pregnant women. If the food pyramid can't get it right, how can ordinary Americans

They are pretty much just like humans. They care about three things food, comfort and sex.

Everyone is doing it. I have eight children and 26 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren. They've been calling, bringing food. I think they're trying to fatten me up. I've gotten cappuccino, Chinese food, chicken, you name it, I got it.

There are a lot of people who have come here to work here to tackle the food crisis,

It rained like heck. We toured the farm in a van and sat on bales of hay in a barn and ate country food.

The cook doesn't want to be locked away in the kitchen anymore. He or she wants to be around the guests. That means that kitchen appliances suddenly become like a sofa and table things that everybody is going to look at. I think it's a real indication of where we are in food culture today.

Deflationary pressures in food continue to be severe and are not projected to ease until the second quarter. Better buying and category management efforts are expected to result in some gross margin improvement.

There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform.

While habits tend to be stable over time, barriers to change in the category are actually very low. It takes very little to get people to try a new restaurant or new food, particularly when prompted by social influences. Likewise, it takes very little for them to reject foods or outlets because of health concerns.