- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Food Quotes
Food as comfort, hardship, and honest confession.
This collection spans food's range, from the humiliation of accidentally poisoning a dinner guest to a genuine hardship of not having enough money for basic meals or clothes while starting out. For lighter, image-ready food lines, see Captions.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In countries around the world, people spend more money on food because they know how precious it is.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to understand that we want to pay the farmers the real price for the food that they produce. It won't ever be cheap to buy real food. But it can be affordable. It's really something that we need to understand. It's the kind of work that it takes to grow food. We don't understand that piece of it.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of equipment can get in the way of the connection with food, with touching and feeling.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The act of eating is very political. You buy from the right people, you support the right network of farmers and suppliers who care about the land and what they put in the food.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that most kids aren't eating at home with their families any more really means they are eating elsewhere. They are eating out there in fast food nation.
- Farms
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- Nov 07, 2020
Create a garden; bring children to farms for field trips. I think it's important that parents and teachers get together to do one or two things they can accomplish well - a teaching garden, connecting with farms nearby, weave food into the curriculum.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just hope Americans come to understand that food isn't something to be manipulated by our teeth and shoved down our gullet, that it's our spiritual and physical nourishment and important to our well-being as a nation.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
First, kids should be involved in the production of their own food. They have to get their hands in the dirt, they have to grow things. They also have to become sensually stimulated, and the way to begin is with a bakery.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basically, the person in the White House should be principled, should have a philosophy about food that relates directly to organic agriculture. I will continue to push for that.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am disappointed because nobody is talking about food and agriculture. They're talking about the diets of children, but they're talking about Band-Aids. We're not seeing a vision.
- Precious
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- Nov 07, 2020
Food isn't like anything else. It's something precious. It's not a commodity.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020