Quotes about Food we Eat

When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life. Votes: 2

Food is medicine. We can actually change our gene expressions with the foods we eat. Votes: 2

We eat food all the time and don't really understand what goes into something like bread. Votes: 2

Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat. Votes: 2

The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much. Votes: 2

Normally, I like to eat at home. We don't go out much. The food at home is so good. Votes: 2

Not only do we have to change the food we eat... we have to educate people about what they can eat appropriately. Votes: 2

In the South, the food is outstanding. Down south, we eat to get full, and the people up north, they don't do that. Votes: 2

Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what we're going to eat is hotly debated. Votes: 2

Everything that has to do with food is sensuous. In the United States, however, we are eating all the time. We have a problem with obesity. And yet, we don't enjoy food that much. Votes: 2

To address our current food system problems, I propose a series of local, regional, national and global conversations - starting around the dinner table - to rethink the food we produce, buy and eat. Votes: 2

People don't like to feed live mice and rats to their snakes. Now we have a regular meat food that they will eat. Ninety percent of the snakes will eat this food and love it. Votes: 2

We hear all around us to love ourselves, and one of the ways we can do that is to eat food that serves our body, but also for us to love the food we're eating. Votes: 2

Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories. Votes: 2

In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn. Votes: 2

All the food we eat - every grain of rice and kernel of corn - has been genetically modified. None of it was here before mankind learned to cultivate crops. The question isn't whether our food has been modified, but how. Votes: 2

We sing a little song before we eat, a little blessing before we eat, and it's really - we're thanking the Lord and the Earth for the food that we eat, and it really brings you together in a profound kind of way. Votes: 2

In many places in the developed world, we eat or waste probably twice as many food calories as we really need. We're wasteful of food. We ship all over the world. We're now realizing that generating the energy to ship the food around the world is also ruining our climate. Votes: 2

I think America's food culture is embedded in fast-food culture. And the real question that we have is: How are we going to teach slow-food values in a fast-food world? Of course, it's very, very difficult to do, especially when children have grown up eating fast food and the values that go with that. Votes: 2

It is important that we relish the food we eat. If we cannot do this, but eat mechanically, our food does not do us that good it should, and we fail to be nourished and built up by it as we otherwise would be, if we could enjoy the food we take into the stomach. Votes: 2

When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food, we are in trouble. Votes: 0

When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food, we are in trouble. Votes: 0

We may eat dinner together, but everyone puts the food in his own mouth. Votes: 0

... there can be no more shameless carelessness than with the food we eat for life itself. Votes: 0

Children, we should always eat our food sitting down. Do not eat standing or walking around. Votes: 0

We are to eat food otherwise we don't live and sometimes we eat food that is very damaging. Votes: 0

Aa is for animals, friends, not food. We don't eat our friends. They would find it quite rude! Votes: 0

If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally. Votes: 0

If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after. Votes: 0

When we eat vegetarian foods, we needn't worry about what kind of disease our food died from; this makes a joyful meal! Votes: 0

Relationships & personal Interactions are like having food...if it doesn't taste well, we can't eat it, no matter how beautiful it looks ~ Votes: 0

As Americans, we tend to look at Mexican food as nachos, which is not Mexican food really - they don't eat them. Votes: 0

Money talks. It makes art. It determines what food we eat, whether we are cured or die, and what shoes we wear. Votes: 0

The joy from eating does not come from the exclusivity of the food, but instead from the sensitivity that we eat it with. Votes: 0

I have another proof that we're going to have food in Heaven! And man did eat angel's food.-Manna! So angels can eat food! Votes: 0

I have two young boys, and my wife is at home. Most of the time, I will cook the food, and we'll eat together. Votes: 0

In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation taste-blind. Votes: 0

Medical tests have shown that giving stimulates a part of the brain that gives us the same gratification as when we eat food or have sex. Votes: 0

We (the Chinese) eat food for its texture, the elastic or crisp effect it has on our teeth, as well as for fragrance, flavor and color. Votes: 0

If the fat people just gave the skinny people more food, we could all just eat... We could solve obesity and hunger at the same time. Votes: 0

Politics is not just about voting one day every four years. Politics is the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the road we walk on. Votes: 0

The images we eat are as important as the food we eat. Think of that in terms of television, and a lot of the movies we watch. Votes: 0

Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we eat well. Votes: 0

We're wild horses. We're going to eat your food, knock down your tent and poop on your shoes. We're protected by federal law, just like Richard Nixon. Votes: 0

The food we eat goes beyond its macronutrients of carbohydrates, fat and protein. It's information. It interacts with and instructs our genome with every mouthful, changing genetic expression. Votes: 0

The food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to bite it. Votes: 0

Usefulness, whatever form it may take, is the price we should pay for the air we breathe and the food we eat and the privilege of being alive. Votes: 0

Yeah the appetizer, that's the food we eat before we have our food...No no you're thinking of dessert, that's food we eat after we have our food. Votes: 0

There is so much to be gained from investing more time in what we eat. Buying fresh ingredients means knowing where your food comes from and what's in it. Votes: 0

We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes. Votes: 0

We need to be more conversant with it because science is in our lives. It's in everything. It's in the food we eat. It's in the air we breathe. It's everywhere. Votes: 0

The mind needs stories as much as the body needs food. There are junk stories and more nourishing ones. The food we eat becomes our bodies, assimilated stories form our identities Votes: 0

The more red meat and blood we eat, the more bloodthirsty we get, the more violent we get. The more vegetarian food we eat, the more peace is taken into us. Votes: 0

Mozart, Beethoven - how can you not want to share them with everyone and anyone? This stuff is of as great importance as the food we eat and the air we breathe. Votes: 0

Our livelihood is intimately tied to the food we eat, water we drink and places where we recreate. That's why we have to promote responsibility and conservation when it comes to our natural resources. Votes: 0

All the food we eat, whether Brussels sprouts or pork bellies, has been modified by mankind. Genetic engineering is only one particularly powerful way to do what we have been doing for eleven thousand years. Votes: 0