Food Quotes

“Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life.”

-- Jonathan Sacks

“I swear I want to be a food model.”

-- Amy Sedaris

“I love to cook so much. I like to cook everything. I really like to eat my food.”

-- Lea Michele

“My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.”

-- Nana Mouskouri

“Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.”

-- Cathy Guisewite

“There are days when I literally have to eat 17 plates of food - it's intense. It's about moderation. You just need a few bites to get the gist of a dish.”

-- Gail Simmons

“Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business.”

-- Franklin P. Jones

“There's the issue of hunger, and there's an issue of if you're going to cut out food programs. We should be focusing on healthy food. Right now, fruits and vegetables are very expensive. So what can we do on the policy side to bring the cost of fruits and vegetables down?”

-- Tom Colicchio

“When I want comfort food, I buy Maltesers. I like all chocolates, but especially those. You can eat them, and because they're so light, you can convince yourself that they are not actually that fattening.”

-- David Walliams

“People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.”

-- Michael Pollan