Food Quotes

“It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.”

-- Marian Wright Edelman

“I don't like to waste anything. Any food left over from the night before is always eaten the next day.”

-- Martin Yan

“I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet.”

-- Joely Fisher

“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

“Miss Child is never bashful with butter.”

-- Phil Donahue

“Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.”

-- Denis Leary

“Food in Chicago is the best.”

-- Lee DeWyze

“Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat.”

-- Jamie Oliver