Food is something that people and animals eat, or plants absorb, to keep them alive. Inspirational food quotes will challenge the way you think, and make your life worth living.
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Most Famous Food Quotes
You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food. Paul Prudhomme
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt. Charles M. Schulz
Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul. Dorothy Day
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. J.R.R. Tolkien
Good food ends with good talk. Geoffrey Neighbor
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. Virginia Woolf
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are. Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin
I love you like a fat kid loves cake! Scott Adams
People who love to eat are always the best people. Julia Child
Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods. Christopher Hitchens
Food brings people together on many different levels. It’s nourishment of the soul and body; it’s truly love. Giada De Laurentiis
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch. Orson Welles
To me, good food is the sole reason we are on this Earth. Esi Edugyan
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations. Oscar Wilde
I know once people get connected to real food, they never change back. Alice Waters
Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don’t believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it’s good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason. Andrew Solomon
To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art. François de la Rochefoucauld
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. Mahatma Gandhi
Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get go. Anthony Bourdain
Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious. Ruth Reichl
I realized very early the power of food to evoke memory, to bring people together, to transport you to other places, and I wanted to be a part of that. José Andrés Puerta
Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart. Erma Bombeck
Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving, and identity. Jonathan Safran Foer
There is no love sincerer than the love of food. George Bernard Shaw
Food delights us, food unites us, food embodies the soil, the sea, and the weather, the farmer’s sweat, and the fisherman’s toil. Don George
Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It’s a grain. It’s like, like, grits, but with high self esteem. James Patterson
Food is not just eating energy. It’s an experience. Guy Fieri
I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. W.C. Fields
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. Hippocrates
A fit, healthy body that is the best fashion statement. Jess C Scott
Food is our common ground, a universal experience. James Beard
Cakes are healthy too, you just eat a small slice. Mary Berr
Food is your body’s fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down. Ken Hill
Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken. M.F.K. Fisher
The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body. Pat Buchanan
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist. Dom Helder Camara
It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings. Kurt Cobain
Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don’t forget food. You can go a week without laughing. Joss Whedon
Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. Mark Twain
The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook. Julia Child
Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly. M. F. K. Fisher
You are what what you eat eats. Michael Pollan
Food to a large extent is what holds a society together and eating is closely linked to deep spiritual experiences. Peter Farb
Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners! Roald Dahl
Food is not simply organic fuel to keep body and soul together, it is a perishable art that must be savored at the peak of perfection. E.A. Bucchianeri
I am a better person when I have less on my plate. Elizabeth Gilbert
Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world. Norman Borlaug
Wait. Why am I thinking about Krispy Kremes? We’re supposed to be exercising. Meg Cabo
Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself. Delia Smith
We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie. David Mamet
Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth. Albert Ellis
Am I tough? Am I strong? Am I hard core? Absolutely. Did I whimper with pathetic delight when I sank my teeth into my hot fried chicken sandwich? You betcha. James Patterson
Food is strength, and food is peace, and food is freedom, and food is a helping hand to people around the world whose goodwill and friendship we want. John F. Kennedy
What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow. A.A. Milne
Eat, as nobody is watching. Enjoy food like that’s the only thing left in your world. Nikita Dudani
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Michael Pollan
Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake. Dean Koontz
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. Mark Twain
Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat. Yolanda Adams
Ice cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal. Voltaire
When you don’t have food in your life, just for a day, it makes you realize you’re lucky to have it the next day. So the day after fasting, the music that comes out will be very joyous. Chris Martin
I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip. John Kennedy Toole
I like food. I like eating. And I don’t want to deprive myself of good food. Sarah Michelle Gellar
I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them. Oscar Wilde
People will travel anywhere for good food it’s crazy. Rene Redzepi
I am not a glutton I am an explorer of food. Erma Bombeck
I get way too much happiness from good food. Elizabeth Olsen
There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won’t, and that’s a wife who can’t cook and will. Robert Frost
Eating good food is my favorite thing in the world. Nothing is more blissful. Justine Larbalestier
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese? Charles de Gaulle
I hope you enjoy reading this collection of beautiful food quotes. Let me know which one you like most.
