Eating Quotes

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

~ Peter De Vries

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

~ Benjamin Franklin

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

~ Lewis Grizzard

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.

~ George Miller

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

~ Lord Byron

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

~ Ronald Reagan

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

~ George Bernard Shaw

I follow my own advice: eat less, move more, eat lots of fruits, vegetables, and grains, and don't eat too much junk food. It leaves plenty of flexibility for eating an occasional junk food.

~ Marion Nestle

Eating a high-nutrient diet actually makes you more satisfied with less food, and actually gives the ability to enjoy food more without overeating.

~ Joel Fuhrman

I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated.

~ Avril Lavigne

I am terrible at making food. I love eating, but I can't make anything.

~ Nicola Formichetti

If we're eating industrially, if we're letting large corporations, fast food chains, cook our food, we're going to have a huge, industrialized, monoculture agriculture because big likes to buy from big. So I realized, wow, how we cook or whether we cook has a huge bearing on what kind of agriculture we're going to have.

~ Michael Pollan

Growing up eating fruits and vegetables fresh from our farm added a lot to the way I taste and look at food today, and I wanted the same for my kids and other kids.

~ Camila Alves

I will never use a substitute for butter. Margarine is one molecule away from eating plastic. If I'm going to eat that type of food, it's going to be the real deal.

~ Paula Deen

I would love having Winnie-the-Pooh stay here at the house. We could talk of food and what we were eating next. Maybe ponder that over a little morsel... and then take a little nap and dream of desserts.

~ Tony Diterlizzi

As I got older and more educated about things like chemicals in food and how beef is processed, I simply stopped eating certain things because it felt like the right thing to do.

~ Lindsay Wagner

Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.

~ Vanessa Carlton

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.

~ Ivan Pavlov

Eating without conversation is only stoking.

~ Marcelene Cox

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

~ William Makepeace Thackeray

The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.

~ Lynda Barry

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

~ George Santayana

It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.

~ Alexander Theroux

I don't stop eating when I'm full. The meal isn't over when I'm full. It's over when I hate myself.

~ Louis C. K.

Just like keeping a healthy diet is important to maintaining a healthy lifestyle, eating the right foods is just as important for getting the most out of your workout.

~ Marcus Samuelsson

Once you have to start counting calories, it takes away from the joy of eating.

~ Mireille Guiliano

Eating well is really important to me. That means having balanced meals, never missing a meal, never skipping a meal, having a balanced diet, and never doing anything extreme.

~ Lizzie Armitstead

Cereal eating is almost a marker for a healthy lifestyle. It sets you up for the day, so you don't overeat.

~ Bruce Barton

I think I just stick to eating a well-rounded diet. I don't cut out anything; if I crave something, I eat it. But I definitely try to stick to a balanced diet always.

~ Martha Hunt

I'm obsessed with cheese and milk, but eliminating them from my diet made the biggest difference. In a month and a half, I lost 11 pounds just from not eating dairy, without doing anything else different, and that totally blew my mind.

~ Khloe Kardashian

Reminded of what a diet really is, I began eating more slowly, being more conscious of when I was full. I started to enjoy my buckwheat bread with goat cheese and pureed butternut-squash soup as a response to real hunger.

~ Kate Christensen

After my experiences with the 5:2 diet, I wasn't interested in a short-term fix that would fail later. I wanted a way of eating that made me lose weight without feeling deprived.

~ Kate Christensen

Eating a varied plant-based diet - and avoiding all meat, fish, chicken and dairy products - may have much to recommend it, but it's certainly not for everyone.

~ Michael Greger

I started dieting. I dieted, dieted, dieted and tried all the diets and I would lose and then I would go back to normal eating and would put it on and then some.

~ Suzanne Somers

I'm naturally a muscular gal with some curves, so eating a Mediterranean diet makes my body happy.

~ Debi Mazar

If I like myself at this weight, then this is what I'm going to be. I don't have an eating disorder.

~ Courteney Cox

I've never had body issues, I've never had an eating disorder. I've never had to go on a diet and that's because of Weight Watchers.

~ Ginnifer Goodwin

Jamie Oliver, quite rightly, was talking about trying to improve the diet of children in schools and improving school meals, but the net effect was the number of children eating school meals in many of these places didn't go up, it went down.

~ Andrew Lansley

I'm not perfect, but what's wonderful about eating a plant-based diet is, I don't have to be.

~ Victoria Moran

I would much rather have a couple of hundred grams of chicken in the afternoon than neck a shake. You're better off just keeping your diet relatively lean and eating simply.

~ Jai Courtney