Food Quotes - Page 10

If the home is a body, the table is the heart, the beating center, the sustainer of life and health.

I don't have to tell you I love you. I fed you pancakes.

Overeating at Thanksgiving is a case in point. It's a national tradition.

And his words fell upon the table like a blessing.

What if there were health food stores on every corner in the hood, instead of liquor stores!?

...Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable - the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.

There are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what is essential.

Food matters because it's one of the things that forces us to live in this world - this tactile, physical, messy, and beautiful world - no matter how hard we try to escape into our minds and our ideals. Food is a reminder of our humanity, our fragility, our createdness.

When you're feeding the second coachload of tourists that day you aren't thinking about the birthday party for fifty next week.

In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.

In the modern food landscape, the Krafts, Monsantos, and Archer Daniels Midlands are standing in the way of food democracy.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

Somebody get me a cheeseburger!

It is the part of a wise man, I say, to refresh and restore himself in moderation with pleasant food and drink, with scents, with the beauty of green plants, with decoration, music, sports, the theater, and other things of this kind, which anyone can use without injury to another.

Perhaps they should feel this safe sand blow away so that their heads are uncovered for a time, so that they will have to taste not only the solid honesty of my red borscht, but the new flavor of the changing world.

The problem is we are not eating food anymore, we are eating food like products. (Hungry For Change Film)

Every now and then, I'll run into someone who claims not to like chocolate, and while we live in a country where everyone has the right to eat what they want, I want to say for the record that I don't trust these people, that I think something is wrong with them, and that they're probably - and this must be said - total duds in bed.

To identify with others is to see something of yourself in them and to see something of them in yourself-even if the only thing you identify with is the desire to be free from suffering.

...eating is the purest mode of consumption. Our purchases are statements about our social class, our friends, and our beliefs. Buying something as continually necessary as food is an ongoing act of self-definition.

If you can eat with mates or friends or family, I mean, it's such a brilliant thing isn't it? If you feel really rubbish and you have a nice bit of food it makes you feel good, you know?