- 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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never had the idea of moving to Paris and becoming something. I liked the idea of living in Paris because it seemed to have so many parts of life I really enjoyed. The people there seemed to prize literature and art, food and drinking, a more hedonistic way of living.
- Large
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- Nov 07, 2020
By and large, the Mexican food in Paris is horrible.
- Contaminated
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- Nov 07, 2020
Diarrhea, 90 percent of which is caused by food and water contaminated by excrement, kills a child every fifteen seconds. That's more than AIDS, malaria, or measles, combined. Human feces are an impressive weapon of mass destruction.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have several Gujarati friends in Mumbai, and I keep eating from their tiffin boxes whenever we meet. I love Gujarati food!
- Destitute
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even before I became an artiste, when I barely had the means to support anyone financially, I took care of several destitute women, giving them shelter, food and clothing.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the way, the food in prison was disgusting. Like, baked beans every day for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to eat food that hasn't been washed in ammonia and then packaged in the shape of breaded dinosaurs filled with cheese - even though those are very tasty. I like to eat food that can actually make it through the 20-plus feet of my small intestine.
- Nov 07, 2020
My wife Neelam is a North Indian, so she will make North Indian food, while my mother will make Bengali food.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Right after the Six Day War, Arafat launched a series of guerrilla operations from East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Acting on a tip, Israeli soldiers stormed the house where he was based, minutes too late. They found his food still warm on the table.
- Simple
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've gotten so far away from our food source. It's been hijacked from us. But if you get soil, plant something in it and water it, you can feed yourself. It's that simple.
- Food Supply
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- Nov 07, 2020
People in my neighborhood are so disconnected from the fresh food supply that kids don't know an eggplant from a sweet potato. We have to show them how to get grounded in the truest sense of the word.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020