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So it's back once more, back up the slope.Why do they always ruin my ropewith their cuts?I felt so r...

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Rainer Maria RilkeThe Best of Rilke: 72 Form-true Verse Translations with Facing Originals

Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If ...

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You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distan...

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There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.

The Mexican people, once they have happened on a good food, he thought, flay the thing to distractio...

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I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my h...

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If anyone does not have three minutes in his life to make an omelette, then life is not worth living...

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I don't confuse my digestive system, I just season simple food with hunger

I enjoy working for my heat. I don't just press a button or twist a thermostat dial. I use the big c...

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Richard ProennekeOne Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey

Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings yo...

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Good!” the creature echoed. “Doctor Nelson will be along in a minute. Feel like breakfast?”All symbo...

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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution kn...

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Some hae meat and canna eat,And some wad eat that want it,But we hae meat and we can eat,And sae the...

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There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't...

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Regardless of what our national credit rating is, people will always want a roof over their heads, f...

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Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.

I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put...

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I'm not one of those academics that don't do shit but reads about it. The difference is, I do shit. ...

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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic do...

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Eaters of Wonder BreadMust be underbred.So little to eat.Where's the wheat?

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Roy Blount, Jr.Alphabet Juice: The Energies

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican herit...

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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he...

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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he...

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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he...

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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he...

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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he...

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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he...

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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he...

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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he...

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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talk...

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Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

Jennifer Anne had prepared some complicated-looking recipe involving chicken breasts stuffed with sw...

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The first time you see something that you have never seen before, you almost always know right away ...

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Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt.

The Cheesecake Factory is a great business model, but if you take your wife there for your 25th wedd...

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You're thinking I'm one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who is going to tell you that eatin...

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If I liked food and disliked exercise as much as a 400 pound guy, I'd be a 400 pound guy.

I love you like a fat kid loves cake!

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Ta...

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I assure you that in all matters of discretion not involving food, we make etiquette tutors look lik...

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Scott LynchThe Republic of Thieves

Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America; they speak French all the time. There...

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Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to ...

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And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God.

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Sherman AlexieThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow a...

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Shirley JacksonWe Have Always Lived in the Castle

We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow a...

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Shirley JacksonWe Have Always Lived in the Castle

We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow a...

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Shirley Jackson (physicist)We Have Always Lived in the Castle

We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow a...

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Shirley Jackson (physicist)We Have Always Lived in the Castle

I need my food to keep my energy up, so I can't really diet.

When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg. Snoop...

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The instinct of self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of ...

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If women are breadwinners and men bring home the bacon, why do people complain about having no dough...

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Stop playing with your food.Laurent to James

I don't drink coffee I take tea my dearI like my toast done on one sid

I did an about-face and veered into the sandwich shop. What I ordered is none of your business, but ...

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Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friends...

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I act delighted, but I have zero interest in these Capitol people. They are only distractions from t...

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We are what no one wants to miss at the party. I act delighted, but I have zero interest in these Ca...

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No more fear of hunger. A new kind of freedom. But what then ... what? What would my life be like on...

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Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friends...

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Mrs Guinea answered my letter and invited me to lunch at her home. That was where I saw my first fin...

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I'm not sure why it is, but I love food more than just about anything else.

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Sylvia PlathThe Bell Jar

I don't know what I ate, but I felt immensely better after the first mouthful. It occurred to me tha...

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Before a Cat will condescendTo treat you as a trusted friend,Some little token of esteemIs needed, l...

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T. S. EliotOld Possum's Book of Practical Cats

Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.

D’yer see it? This finger, laddie, could send ye to meet yer Maker!”Sgt. Deisenburger stared at the ...

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Terry PratchettGood Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter

The elevator shaft was a kind of heat sink. Hot food was cold by the time it arrived. Cold food got ...

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Terry PratchettLords and Ladies

Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage.

I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, he said, BUT I COULD MURDER A CURRY.

Have a chocolate-covered raisin,” he said.“They look like rat droppings,” said the Chair.The Dean pe...

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A good motto in life, he'd reckoned, was: don't eat anything that glows.

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Terry PratchettThe Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.--The...

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Thomas JeffersonThe Quotable Jefferson

In any case, muffins that are only imaginary aren't liable to get stuck.

The minute you land in New Orleans, something wet and dark leaps on you and starts humping you like ...

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The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire o...

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Tom RobbinsJitterbug Perfume

I loved my mom so much because she had to work on a penny just to put food on the table... During th...

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Someone who eats pancakes and jam can't be so awfully dangerous. You can talk to him.

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Tove JanssonFinn Family Moomintroll

The myth of "free choice" begins with "free market" and "free trade". When five transnational corpor...

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no wonder you left."Yeah," i say, rolling my eyes. " It was just because of the food.

Damn,' someone behind me says. 'I was hoping we would get to scrape some Stiff pancake off the pavem...

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To steel yourself against mangoes showed a degree of iciness that was almost inhuman.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

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Virginia WoolfA Room of One's Own

Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal.

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

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W. H. AudenForewords and Afterwords

To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day.

Dinner a time when . . . one should eat wisely but not too well and talk well but not too wisely.

It's a very odd thing As odd as can be That whatever Miss T. eats Turns into Miss T.

Oh, pity the poor gluttonWhose troubles all beginIn struggling on and on to turnWhat's out into what...

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Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps...

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And his words fell upon the table like a blessing.

At every point in our food economy, present conditions remaining, we must expect to come to a time w...

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Wendell BerryBringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food

We still (sometimes) remember that we cannot be free if our minds and voices are controlled by someo...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who kno...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lov...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

Eating is an agricultural act.

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Wendell BerryWhat Are People for Essays By Wendell B

If I ever meet with the man who fulfills my ideal, I shall make it a condition of the marriage settl...

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