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Food Quotes


"But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table."


"I think Australian food is probably some of the best in the world."


"The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you're a farmer and you're growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm."


"Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water."


"It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops."


"The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families."


"In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted."


"We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for."


"Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities."


"There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed."


"For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable."


"Hopefully, imparting what's important to me, respect for the food and that information about the purveyors, people will realize that for a restaurant to be good, so many pieces have to come together."


"Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food."


"I don't know of any cases where as a result of religious precepts a population have found themselves enjoying less food than they would have if they didn't follow this particular religion."


"A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food."


"The ease with which barley may be substituted directly for wheat in human food and its usefulness to replace wheat milling by-products as feed in the production of the milk supply render its abundant production important."


"We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food."


"It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf."


"UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists."


"Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums."


"Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows."


"One has got to choose between the two evils, also between the lesser of the two evils in the matter of food, and therefore vegetarian food has got to he taken by man in order to sustain human life."


"I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter."


"Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food."


"The importance to the nation of a generously adequate food supply for the coming year cannot be overemphasized, in view of the economic problems which may arise as a result of the entrance of the United States into the war."


"Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food."
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