Food Quotes
“I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.”
“Let's keep the chemists over here and the food over here, that's my feeling. What do I know? But that is a big aspect of fast food is their ability to artificially taint the colors and the smells and stuff to stimulate appetite.”
-- Greg Kinnear
“Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here.”
-- John Shelton Reed
“The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.”
-- Jerry Saltz
“I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.”
-- Giacomo Casanova
“Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.”
-- Wendell Berry
“One of the glories of New York is its ethnic food, and only McDonald's and Burger King equalize us all.”
-- John Corry