Food Quotes


  • It’s amazing how pervasive food is. Every second commercial is for food. Every second TV episode takes place around a meal. In the city, you can’t go ten feet without seeing or smelling a restaurant. There are 20 foot high hamburgers up on billboards. I am acutely aware of food, and its omnipresence is astounding. —–Adam Scott, The Monkey Chow Diaries
  • Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. —Mark Twain
  • My mother didn’t really cook. But she did make key lime pie, until the day the top of the evaporated milk container accidentally ended up in the pie and she decided cooking took too much concentration.— William Norwich
  • Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food. —-George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
  • I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. I am President of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli. —–Bush, George
  • I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream. —–Heywood Broun
  • No soldier can fight properly unless he is properly fed on beef and beer. —Duke of Marlborough
  • If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. —–J. R. R. Tolkien
  • In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I’m your man. —–Bill Gates
  • I feel a recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation. —–Madam Benoit
  • They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman’s octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach. —–Luigi Barzini
  • I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup. —-Eddie Izzard
  • A cure for War? Furiously spending the same daily amount of money toward making friends. Being an indispensable source of food, shelter, peace, and cultural support dedicatedly spending 9 billion dollars a month on helping people would be a formidable ene. —– Vanna Bonta
  • Older people shouldn`t eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get. ——Robert Orben