Quotes about Food
Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.
- Cicero
My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
- William Faulkner
My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates.
- Dante Alighieri
He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart
- CS Lewis
Learn to let your intuition-gut instinct-tell you when the food, the relationship, the job isn't good for you (and conversely, when what you're doing is just right).
- Oprah Winfrey
Fasting of the body is food for the soul.
- St. John Chrysostom
We know that the body needs bread, therefore we seek for bread for it: so must we seek for the food of the soul.
- Lancelot Andrewes
Happy Cinco de Mayo! It's a holiday that's as respectful of Mexican traditions as Epcot Center's Mexican food pavilion.
- Conan O'Brien
All training does is get us back what we lost when we stopped having to hunt down our food. Our bodies are built for it already.
- Laird Hamilton
What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
- AA Milne
The requisites of government are that there be sufficiency of food, sufficiency of military equipment, and the confidence of the people in their ruler.
- Confucius
He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.
- Henry David Thoreau