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

“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