Food Quotes
“We're going to do everything possible to make sure that food safety is always paramount, and that we work with the industry as aggressively as we can to make sure that we're paying attention to the food-safety issues.”
-- Mike Johanns
“Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.”
-- W. C. Fields
“I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated.”
-- Avril Lavigne
“Stuffing is my favorite food in the world! I actually have been known to go buy stuffing and make it in the middle of summer.”
-- Emma Roberts
“St. Louis has a lot of weird food customs that you don't see other places - and a lot of great ethnic neighborhoods. There's a German neighborhood. A great old school Italian neighborhood, with toasted ravioli, which seems to be a St. Louis tradition. And they love provolone cheese in St. Louis.”
-- Andy Cohen
“Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him.”
-- Helen Rowland
“Everybody has to put purees underneath everything now. It's like people think we need the steak, and then we need some baby food with it.”
-- Wolfgang Puck
“I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness.”
-- Robert Mondavi
“When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides?”
-- Jerry Brown
“Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution - warmer seas, which can drive stronger storms, and more acidic oceans, which wreak havoc on the food chain - are even more deadly here.”
-- Jeff Goodell
“I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.”
-- Kanye West
“Relief organizations both large and small are coordinating deliveries of food, clothing, water, and other basic necessities to those impacted by Katrina.”
-- Jo Bonner
“You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.”
-- Ronald Reagan
“If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.”
-- Cesar Chavez
“The food in the House of Commons is fairly good. The cafe in Portcullis House is really very high quality, and you also have a choice of eating in the more traditional restaurants, the Churchill Room or the Members' Dining Room. I don't often eat in them, though, as I'm usually on the run.”
-- Vince Cable