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Food Quotes


"Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got raw materials and then we got tool machines, let's say, instruments for working."


"Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply."


"I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting."


"In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a disadvantage in proportion to the higher rate of his food."


"The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food."



"Never order food in excess of your body weight."


"You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table."


"I do love Italian food. Any kind of pasta or pizza. My new pig out food is Indian food. I eat Indian food like three times a week. It's so good."


"That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible."


"Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community."


"The one thing that I'm in charge of in this wedding is the food."


"The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status."


"From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands."


"Australia is so cool that it's hard to even know where to start describing it. The beaches are beautiful; so is the weather. Not too crowded. Great food, great music, really nice people. It must be a lot like Los Angeles was many years ago."


"In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors'."


"Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed... I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself."


"It was dog food. Beef livers with onions in a can. You open it up and it looks like vomit."


"Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness."


"When once an Indian sees that his food is secure, he does not care what the chief or any one else says."


"You know, nobody eats in England. Three or four pints of English beer a night fills you. I can't say I'm very impressed with the food in America. it's all sort of bland. Like turkey sandwiches."


"I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness."


"Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach."


"Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food."


"I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself."


"Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry."


"Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops."


"It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water; also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion."
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