Food Quotes
“I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.”
-- Ray Charles
“No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.”
-- Samuel Johnson
“I don't like to waste anything. Any food left over from the night before is always eaten the next day.”
-- Martin Yan
“A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.”
-- Margaret Fuller
“I used food as a coping mechanism for many, many years, and it was my best friend for a long time.”
-- Carnie Wilson
“The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom.”
-- Shimon Peres
“Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat.”
-- Jamie Oliver
“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.”
-- Carol Burnett
“We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.”
-- Napoleon Hill
“I say grace. I'm a big believer in grace. I happen to believe in a God that made all the food and so I'm pretty grateful for that and I thank him for that. But I'm also thankful for the people that put the food on the table.”
-- Alton Brown