People Quotes

I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past.

~ Mario Lemieux

Mexican food is far more varied than people think. It changes like dialects. I was brought up in Jalisco by the sea on a basic diet - tomatoes, chillis, peppers of every size and rice, which is a Mexican staple. The Pacific coast has a huge array of seafood.

~ Gael Garcia Bernal

The air that people breathe in many Chinese cities has become dangerously polluted. Their food supply is subject to constant contamination scandals. Now it appears that not merely stagnant ponds but the water people draw from deep underground is already tainted.

~ James Fallows

I am very much about promoting Lima because I think Peru and the mountains and the Incas, everybody is aware of those, but Lima is something that people should discover - especially our food.

~ Mario Testino

If we want to improve American food and make it much cheaper, we should deregulate the food trucks and the other street vendors, provided they meet certain sanitation standards. Many cities have already moved down this path, and people are not keeling over with salmonella.

~ Tyler Cowen

Vietnamese food has probably been saved from the mass market because most people never master the sauces and condiments that must be added to the food, at the table, for its glories to become apparent. It's too much trouble, and a lot of people don't like asking for help, especially if the interaction involves some linguistic awkwardness.

~ Tyler Cowen

There's a song called 'Live Blogging the Himmel Family Bris.' I kind of went for it here in terms of - it was really fun to be explaining ritual circumcision in Nashville - a lot of brises are done in hospitals, but many are done in people's homes, and there's a lot of food, and a lot of leftovers.

~ Rick Moranis

People need to eat whole food plant foods, primarily... whole grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. That diet supports our lives. We ought to live to be 90 or 100 without getting any diseases.

~ John Mackey

The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.

~ S. Truett Cathy

Thin people release the fork, and they chew the food with the fork on the table. They chew their food slowly. They look around at each other or the wall or a picture. They listen to the music. They sit back and take a breath. They do something other than concentrate on shoving the food into their body.

~ Jean Nidetch

Food is celebratory. People who don't cook don't know how much fun they're missing.

~ Leo Buscaglia

We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.

~ Christina Aguilera

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

~ Michael Pollan

If you go back in American history, oysters were the food of poor people. New York was filled with oyster saloons in the 1800s.

~ Ruth Reichl

I like serving family-style or setting up a buffet. Everyone just goes to town, scoops their own food, and mixes their own drinks. You know how people love to come and watch you in the kitchen now and talk your ear off? If you give them something to do and something to drink, they don't do that as much.

~ Chrissy Teigen

Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people don't seem to care about the fat aspect.

~ Eric Schlosser

There are good intentions behind many people's conversion to veganism, including an admirable devotion to the well-being of animals and a justified skepticism about the crap the USDA allows manufacturers to put in our food. But it's hard to ignore the often sanctimonious nature of what some nutritionists view as an 'extremist' way of eating.

~ Julie Klausner

Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.

~ Paul Prudhomme

Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change.

~ John Walters

Groceries became a revelation: the people coming out with bundles of food. It's all like a great ceremony, and the whole drudgery of shopping has become my inspiration.

~ Corita Kent

More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people.

~ Joseph Lelyveld

The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.

~ Feisal Abdul Rauf

Muslims are not bloodthirsty people. Islam is a religion of peace that forbids the killing of the innocent. Islam also accepts the Prophets, whether those prophets are Mohammed, God's peace and blessing be upon Him, or Moses or the other prophets of the Books.

~ Abdullah Of Saudi Arabia

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

God does not discriminate against people, regardless of color, religion, social class, or gender and sexual preferences.

~ Rodrigo Duterte

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.

~ John Henrik Clarke

In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.

~ Robert Runcie

I do not believe that the people of Ontario judge their leaders on the basis of race, sexual orientation, colour or religion. I don't believe they hold that prejudice in their hearts.

~ Kathleen Wynne

In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.

~ Hillary Clinton

I think my politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.

~ Lily Tomlin

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

~ Bonnie Raitt

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that.

~ Sam Harris

I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.

~ Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, is true perversion.

~ Harvey Milk

We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies.

~ Bill Maher

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.

~ Karen Armstrong

I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.

~ Ken Livingstone

The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.

~ Sam Harris

Bad Religion has never been about criticizing people who are Christian. But we've always been about pointing out the irony and contradictions in Christian theology and the more extreme versions of Christians that seek to challenge modern secularism.

~ Greg Graffin