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Our favorite Food Quotes
“Well, the food’s always the way to anybody’s heart, I think, guy or girl.”_Josh Hutcherson
“Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands – and then eat just one of the pieces.”– Judith Viorst

If you’re hungry and you want thousands of something, then eat rice!–Unknown
“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.”–Orson Welles

“I love you like a fat kid loves cake.”–Scott Adams
“Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.”–Ruth Reichl




“The belly rules the mind.”_Spanish Proverb

Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments._Bethenny Frankel

There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments._Chris Rock
Funny Food Quotes
The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook._Julia Child

My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order_Dolly Parton
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed. _A. J. Liebling
The only thing I like better than talking about Food is eating._John Walters

You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six. _Yogi Berra
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat? _ John Cleese
You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans. _ Ronald Reagan

If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant? _ Martin Scorsese
Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. _Doug Larson

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I’m taking with me when I go. _Erma Bombeck
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. _Samuel Butler

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. _ Calvin Trillin
Healthy Food Quotes
“We all eat, and it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly.”__Anna Thomas
“It’s difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.” _ Lewis Grizzard

The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body. _Pat Buchanan
Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct. _Denis Leary

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. _A. Whitney Brown
Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better. _Robert Redford
Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change. _John Walters

“Life is too short for self-hatred and celery sticks.”_Marilyn Wann
“Food is really and truly the most effective medicine.”_Joel Fuhrman
“Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.”_Jim Davis

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”–Hippocrates
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”–Charles M. Shulz
As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter._Victoria Moran
Food Making Quotes
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.__Harriet Van Horne
Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people eat together._Guy Fieri

Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal._Sandra Lee
Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life. _ Maya Angelou
The kitchen is a sacred space. _ Marc Forgione

I love to take something ordinary and make it really special. _ Ina Garten
You learn to cook so that you don’t have to be a slave to recipes. You get what’s in season and you know what to do with it._Julia Child

“Anyone who’s a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: ‘Is it good? Does it give pleasure?’”– Anthony Bourdain
Patience is the secret to good food. _Gail Simmons
Food love quotes
“Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate.”– Alan D. Wolfelt
Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom’s homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past. _Homaro Cantu

“If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him…the people who give you their food give you their heart._Cesar Chavez
Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to morale. _Elsa Schiaparelli

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly. _M. F. K. Fisher
One should eat to live, not live to eat. _Moliere

There’s no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap. _Kevin James
When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life. _Monica Bellucci

I think steak is the ultimate comfort food, and if you’re going out for one, that isn’t the time to scrimp on calories or quality. _Tom Colicchio
“To me, food is as much about the moment, the occasion, the location and the company as it is about the taste.”– Heston Blumenthal
“My doctor told me I had to stop throwing intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people.”– Orson Welles

“One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.”– Luciano Pavarotti
A good restaurant is like a vacation; it transports you, and it becomes a lot more than just about the food. _Philip Rosenthal
General Food Quotes
“You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food.”_Paul Prudhomme
“A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.”_Barbara Johnson

“To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.”_François de la Rochefoucauld
“Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed and puts them in your debt.”_Judith Olney
“ Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It’s not about nutrients and calories. It’s about sharing. It’s about honesty. It’s about identity. _ Louise Fresco

“ Food is your body’s fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down. _ Ken Hill
“ So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being. _ Franz Kafka

“ If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one. _ Mother Teresa
“ My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food. _ David Byrne
When a man’s stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor. _Euripides

I like to eat and I love the diversity of foods. _David Soul
“ In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport._Julia Child
“ Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.”– Jonathan Safran Foer

“ If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating._Leigh Hunt
“ I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning. _John Barrymore
“ Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing. _Irina Shayk
Over to you!
We hope our collection of food quotes from cooks, celebrities, and travelers made you hungry enough to order food.