Food Quotes

Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It's a grain. It's like, like, grits, but with high self-esteem.

~ James Patterson

Cakes are healthy too, you just eat a small slice.

~ Mary Berry

Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken.

~ M.f.k. Fisher

I could have killed you.”“Or I could have killed you,” Percy said. Jason shrugged. “If there’d been an ocean in Kansas, maybe.”“I don’t need an ocean—”“Boys,” Annabeth interrupted, “I’m sure you both would’ve been wonderful at killing each other. But right now, you need some rest.”Food first,” Percy said. “Please?

~ Rick Riordan

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

~ Hippocrates

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

~ Julia Child

You are what what you eat eats.

~ Michael Pollan

I am a better person when I have less on my plate.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Am I tough? Am I strong? Am I hard-core? Absolutely. Did I whimper with pathetic delight when I sank my teeth into my hot fried-chicken sandwich? You betcha.

~ James Patterson

What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

~ A.a. Milne

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

~ Michael Pollan

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

~ Julia Child

your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.

~ Anthony Bourdain

As I got closer to the fence, I held my shirt over my nose to block the smell. One stallion waded through the muck and whinnied angrily at me. He bared his teeth, which were pointed like a bear's.I tried to talk to him in my mind. I can do that with most h

~ Rick Riordan

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

~ Oscar Wilde

I breathe in slowly. Food is life. I exhale, take another breath. Food is life. And that's the problem. When you're alive, people can hurt you. It's easier to crawl into a bone cage or a snowdrift of confusion. It's easier to lock everybody out. But it's a lie.

~ Laurie Halse Anderson

Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.

~ Jo Brand

As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.

~ Ernest Hemingway

While Leo fussed over his helm controls, Hazel and Frank relayed the story of the fish-centaurs and their training camp.'Incredible,' Jason said. 'These are really good brownies.''That's your only comment?' Piper demanded.He looked surprised. 'What? I heard the story. Fish-centaurs. Merpeople. Letter of intro to the Tiber River god. Got it. But these brownies--''I know,' Frank said, his mouth full. 'Try them with Ester's peach preserves.''That,' Hazel said, 'is incredibly disgusting.''Pass me the jar, man,' Jason said.Hazel and Piper exchanged a look of total exasperation. Boys.

~ Rick Riordan

I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory.

~ Mitch Albom

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Whoever thought a tiny candy bar should be called fun size was a moron.

~ Glenn Beck

Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.

~ Anthony Bourdain

If you're afraid of butter, use cream.

~ Julia Child

Tofu tacos are not Mexican. I think putting tofu on anything and calling it Mexican is an insult to my people.

~ Simone Elkeles

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.

~ Erma Bombeck

How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?

~ Julia Child

Have you tried the cinnamon things? Poppet asks. They're rather new. What are they called, Widge?Fantastically delicious cinnamon things?

~ Erin Morgenstern

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.

~ Craig Claiborne

I hate France. It's like the whole country's on a diet

~ Gordon Korman

I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure

~ Anthony Bourdain

The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious.Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.The beet is the melancholy vegetable, the one most willing to suffer. You can't squeeze blood out of a turnip...The beet is the murderer returned to the scene of the crime. The beet is what happens when the cherry finishes with the carrot. The beet is the ancient ancestor of the autumn moon, bearded, buried, all but fossilized; the dark green sails of the grounded moon-boat stitched with veins of primordial plasma; the kite string that once connected the moon to the Earth now a muddy whisker drilling desperately for rubies.The beet was Rasputin's favorite vegetable. You could see it in his eyes.

~ Tom Robbins

No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.

~ Laurie Colwin

The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.

~ Jasper Fforde

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

~ Erma Bombeck

Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes.It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt.

~ Judith Olney

If God gives you a Quiznos, can I have a bite? No way. You have to pray for your own food.

~ Michael Grant

Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders.

~ Marya Hornbacher