Top 480 Food Quotes

Being a consultant is like flying first-class. The food is terrific, the drinks are cold. But all you can do is walk up to the pilot and say, ‘bank left.’ If you’re in management, you have the controls.
Greg Brenneman
We were not rich. We did not go to the Cote d’Azur or skiing. Our only vacation was to the North Sea. I had to pay for my bicycle every month, but we always had food.
Eddy Merckx
We are stronger as a group than an individual. Think in a cooperative and communal way, set up local food hubs and create growing communities.
Arthur Potts Dawson
In fact, blockchain has the potential to fundamentally change how we share information, buy and sell things, interact with government, prove our identity, and even verify the authenticity of everything – from the food we eat to the medicine we take to who we say we are.
Julie Sweet
I love oatmeal. To me, it’s not boring. I agree that ordinary oatmeal is very boring, but not the steel-cut Irish kind – the kind that pops in your mouth when you bite into it in little glorious bursts like a sort of gummy champagne.
Alan Alda
Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I to

Primarily I’m a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.
Nat King Cole
After a natural disaster, safe drinking water is a priority. Humans can live longer without food than water, so communication about clean water is essential to help avoid the risk of cholera, dysentery, malnutrition, famine, and death.
Tae Yoo
I love food. I’m a big food person. I’m really passionate about eating good food all the time.
Dreama Walker
Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
Robert M. Pirsig
I started keeping track of my pet peeves and so far have counted over 160… but to pick one: muffins. They’re imposters. They think they’re breakfast food, but really, they are just terrible cupcakes.
Aubrey Peeples
Food is culture. Food is an identity, a footprint of who you are.
Lidia Bastianich
I need to tone up, as I eat a lot of fast food. I love Maccy D’s, Subway and Domino’s.
Amy Childs
If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.
Leigh Hunt
Not like Chinese food, where you eat it and then you feel hungry an hour later.
Ray Liotta
The worst food you’ll ever eat will probably be prepared by a ‘cook’ who calls himself a ‘chef.’ Mark my words.
Alton Brown
I wanted to get away from the Mexican vernacular and do more ‘nuevo Latino.’ Americans are starting to understand regionality in Mexican food. It is very regional in terms of ingredients.
Aaron Sanchez
There’s a song called ‘Live Blogging the Himmel Family Bris.’ I kind of went for it here in terms of – it was really fun to be explaining ritual circumcision in Nashville – a lot of brises are done in hospitals, but many are done in people’s homes, and there’s a lot of food, and a lot of leftovers.
Rick Moranis
Climate change, if unchecked, is an urgent threat to health, food supplies, biodiversity, and livelihoods across the globe.
John F. Kerry
Food can offer a moment of pure emotional pleasure in an otherwise hard and difficult world.
Antoni Porowski
I understand only three things – films, fitness, and food.
Rakul Preet Singh
There are two books that I often travel with; one is ‘The Theory on Moral Sentiments’ by Adam Smith. The other is ‘The Meditations.’ It’s not that I agree with either views expressed in the books, but I believe ideas and thoughts of older generations can offer food for thought for the current generation.
Wen Jiabao
Cooking at home with fresh ingredients means you know what’s going into your food.
Joe Wicks
I try to stick to real food, meaning anything that has been grown naturally or organically and that is not majorly processed: meats and proteins, a lot of green vegetables, less sugary fruits, solid starches and nuts.
Jenna Johnson
If we pursue organic farming as our healthy food style, we can bring down cost of treatment to a great extent.
Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi
Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth… these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women’s empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.
Ban Ki-moon
I don’t cook very often but when I do I try and make Georgian food. I made a hinkali recently, which is like ravioli but is the size of your palm, with meat in the middle and thicker dough.
Katie Melua
We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.
Laurie Colwin
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
Oscar Wilde
I was lucky to marry Paul. He was a great inspiration, his enthusiasm about wine and food helped to shape my tastes, and his encouragement saw me through discouraging moments. I never would have had my career without Paul Child.
Julia Child
We farm workers are closest to food production. We were the first to recognize the serious health hazards of agriculture pesticides to both consumers and ourselves.
Cesar Chavez
If you have good food, people will come to your restaurant.
Mickey Gilley
Of course, animals have to be killed for food or to prevent their doing injury to others or to property. But such killing is too often carried out without regard to the pain inflicted.
Robert Baden-Powell
Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they’ll feel confused and lost.
Phil McGraw
What I like about Calcutta is the food. I like simple Bengali food like dal, shukto, fish, and mutton.
Barun Sobti
The way to get to like good food is by learning to cook, which is why I’m for ever banging on about children learning to cook.
Prue Leith
My mum is Brazilian and very proud. I’d love to do a Brazilian film. I’ve been brought up in the Brazilian culture. My mum brought me up on my own, I cook Brazilian food, I’ve never spoken a word of English to my mother.
Kaya Scodelario
Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
Woody Allen
I’m not a big fan of food, but when I do eat, I like to eat.
Terrell Suggs
Food is a passion. Food is love.
Hector Elizondo
Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.
Elon Musk
Food trucks are an essential part of people’s days. They are important to the fabric of feeding people, like hotel chefs cooking breakfasts or for weddings.
Roy Choi
When I got to France I realized I didn’t know very much about food at all. I’d never had a real cake. I’d had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn’t have anything like that in it – it’s all egg power.
Julia Child
Tell me what you do with the food you eat, and I’ll tell you who you are. Some turn their food into fat and manure, some into work and good humour, and others, I’m told, into God. So there must be three sorts of men.
Nikos Kazantzakis
If you go to the supermarket and buy a package of food and look at the photo on the front, the food never looks like that inside, does it? That is a fundamental lie we are sold every day.
Martin Parr
I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
Billy Joel
If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?
Martin Scorsese
I don’t know if you call a burger ‘recession food.’ It’s comfort food.
Michael Mina
I want people to buy British because it’s the tastiest food and the most exciting food.
Liz Truss
Most bacteria aren’t bad. We breathe and eat and ingest gobs of bacteria every single moment of our lives. Our food is covered in bacteria. And you’re breathing in bacteria all the time, and you mostly don’t get sick.
Bonnie Bassler
The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.
Woody Allen
Wine is bottled poetry.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Once electricity and petrol and facilities and food stop, society stops. It’s crazy.
Alycia Debnam-Carey
I get really mean or emotional if I don’t have food in my system.
Kendall Jenner
Congress Yuvraj Rahul Gandhi’s visit to houses of poor sharing food with them or night stays will not alleviate poverty. Nor can poverty be tackled by implementation of rural employment scheme.
Mayawati
There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you’d had enough food; who knew exactly what to say when you were hurting; and who encouraged you to grow a good heart. When that layer goes, whatever is left of your childhood goes with her.
Adriana Trigiani
I always preferred my father’s pasta the next day, when he’d put it in a hot oven with heaps of extra cheese. It would emerge slightly burned and very crisp on top.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
I was always the new kid in school, I’m the kid from a broken family, I’m the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I’m the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store.
Dave Mustaine
My favorite animal is steak.
Fran Lebowitz
Italian food is seasonal. It is simple. It is nutritionally sound. It is flavorful. It is colorful. It’s all the things that make for a good eating experience, and it’s good for you.
Lidia Bastianich
My ultimate getaway is Vietnam. It has a little bit of everything when it comes to culture, amazing food, beautiful people, exotic sights, sounds and profound history of love, bravery and resilience.
Jeannie Mai
My favorite food is macaroni and cheese that my grandma makes. My favorite drink has to be Vita Coco coconut water.
Sloane Stephens