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.”

-- Al Sharpton

“I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food.”

-- Jennifer Jason Leigh

“Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.”

-- Robert M. Pirsig

“Attitudes toward food have completely changed.”

-- Giada De Laurentiis

“We had the best food any battlefield ever had.”

-- William Westmoreland

“Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?”

-- Nikita Khrushchev

“Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.”

-- Sai Baba

“I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.”

-- Rodney Dangerfield

“He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.”

-- Raymond Chandler

“The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.”

-- Michelle Obama