Food Quotes

“I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers, beatings and rotten food. But what it also had was a library full of books.”

-- Wilbur Smith

“More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.”

-- John Kenneth Galbraith

“Actually, if I don't eat healthy food I don't feel good. For me, I crave healthy food.”

-- Kristin Cavallari

“The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.”

-- Ed Bradley

“Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.”

-- Norman Borlaug

“My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school.”

-- Flavor Flav

“Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.”

-- Truman Capote

“Start with a clean grill. Keep it clean by brushing with a wire brush after preheating, and again after cooking. Make sure to oil your grates and your food before putting it on the grill to keep it from sticking.”

-- Emeril Lagasse

“With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half, severely curtailing food production.”

-- Jeff Goodell

“The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.”

-- Damon Wayans