Food Quotes

“Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food.”

-- Michael Pollan

“To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.”

-- Barbara Tuchman

“I'm girlie in the sense that I like makeup, but I also love sports and man food.”

-- Carrie Underwood

“Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.”

-- George Bernard Shaw

“Food decisions - do I eat this or not? - are always going to be there.”

-- Carnie Wilson

“Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.”

-- Jonathan Safran Foer

“I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.”

-- Johnny Carson

“It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him.”

-- Dorothy Day

“My three addictions of choice are food, love and work.”

-- Alanis Morissette

“Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone - the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether it's sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever.”

-- Zachary Levi