Life Quotes

For the first 50 years of your life the food industry is trying to make you fat. Then, the second 50 years, the pharmaceutical industry is treating you for everything.

~ Pierre Dukan

I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the Bread of God, which is the Flesh of Jesus Christ, who was of the seed of David, and for drink I desire His Blood, which is love incorruptible.

~ Ignatius Of Antioch

Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city's food for the rest of my life, every day. It would have to be Tokyo, and I think the majority of chefs you ask that question would answer the same way.

~ Anthony Bourdain

Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life.

~ Jonathan Sacks

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

~ Mark Twain

If I have one addiction in life, it's probably food.

~ Liam Hemsworth

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.

~ Alice Foote Macdougall

When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.

~ Monica Bellucci

I believe that you can, by taking some simple and inexpensive measures, lead a longer life and extend your years of well-being. My most important recommendation is that you take vitamins every day in optimum amounts to supplement the vitamins that you receive in your food.

~ Linus Pauling

Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food - unless, of course, it's a mallard.

~ Ted Nugent

Jiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he's been making his whole life, and he's still unsatisfied with the quality and every day wakes up and trains to make the best. And that is as close to a religious experience in food as one is likely to get.

~ Anthony Bourdain

Let's face it: my life tends to revolve around food, and I love feeding people.

~ Ruth Reichl

I want to spend my life with someone and do nice things and go on adventures, read books and have nice food and celebrate things. I don't want to spend the rest of my life in the bedroom like some people who just go to bed and never get out again.

~ Tracey Emin

Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights.

~ Gelila Bekele

Variety is what I would recommend: As variety is the spice of life in food, so it is in exercise. Change it up. But most of all, don't overdo it.

~ Martina Navratilova

Your relationship to food is but a reflection of your relationship to yourself, as is everything in your life.

~ Marianne Williamson

I love food. I'm a huge food addict. I think in my past life I was a pig or something like that, but I love eating; I never stop eating.

~ Justin Lee

We have more tools at hand, literally, to make life easier and more productive than ever. We have Google, Wikipedia, iPads, iPhones, iTunes, YouTube, Netflix, and 600 cable channels. We can shop, pay bills, order food, and get nearly everything delivered, all of it with the touch of a finger on a device in the palm of our hand.

~ Mike Barnicle

I had a long-lasting love affair with the flavors from Japan and the hustling New York street vendors. And, of course, a life-changing return to Ethiopia has made huge impacts on my life in food.

~ Marcus Samuelsson

I've been a foodie most of my life. I started when I lived for a year in Germany in my early 20s, and here was this new food environment, and I decided I needed to make sense of it. And I found it was the rules of economics that do the best job. Food is a capitalist product of supply and demand.

~ Tyler Cowen

I think 'Soul Food' had the biggest impact on me because that's where I was really able to shine as an actress and because I also met my husband there, and that was a huge turning point in my personal life. So, that show will stick with me forever and ever and ever.

~ Nicole Ari Parker

It's fantastic to strive towards a nice life where you eat nice organic food and your children go to a nice school and you can afford nice clothes and nice perfume and the hypoallergenic make-up. But there's never a day goes by, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, that I don't think about where I'm from.

~ Samantha Morton

Meat is a big deal in my life. I do love breakfast food, but I don't think that's extraordinary. I'm a normal American. We love eggs and meat and potatoes and gravy.

~ Nick Offerman

Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.

~ Peace Pilgrim

I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.

~ Tanya Fischer

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

~ Elsa Schiaparelli

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

~ Swami Vivekananda

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

~ Martin Luther

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

~ Jesus Christ

We are a nation of immigrants, a quilt of many colors, and we've managed over more than two centuries to create a way of life that allows for a reasonable degree of upward mobility, that prizes individual liberty, promotes freedom of religion and genuinely values equal rights for all citizens.

~ Jay Parini

In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion.

~ Kofi Annan

Most people are defined by their titles, their cars, their house, where they came from, their color, their race, their religion. And so it's up to you to take control of your own life and define you. As long as you understand who you are and you have a solid foundation of understanding what your talents are, what your skills are.

~ Stedman Graham

Black Consciousness seeks to infuse the black community with a new-found pride in themselves, their efforts, their value systems, their culture, their religion and their outlook to life.

~ Steven Biko

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

~ Albert Camus

I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian.

~ Erykah Badu

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

~ Pope Francis

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.

~ Paul Tillich

There is no religion that was founded on intolerance - and no religion that does not value the sanctity of human life.

~ Mohamed Elbaradei

What brings you closer to God is being in service to others. I think any religion or spiritual way of life will indicate that service to others will lead to a connection with a higher power.

~ Steve-O

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.

~ Chuck Berry