- Great
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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
- Crabs
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Rome for their calzones and New York City for the variety of quality eateries, but I absolutely fell in love with Miami for the stone crabs at Joe's just off Ocean Drive - the best I've ever had, and the Cajun food. The steaks out there are colossal - it's like having a shark and a cow on your plate.
- Fast Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't eat fast food any more, not since I got cancer.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.
- Bread
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- Nov 07, 2020
All families had their special Christmas food. Ours was called Dutch Bread, made from a dough halfway between bread and cake, stuffed with citron and every sort of nut from the farm - hazel, black walnut, hickory, butternut.
- Nov 07, 2020
To eat in the same room where food is cooked - that is the way to thank the Lord for His abundance.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know that young babies, as they become capable of moving voluntarily, will share. They will share food, for instance, with their siblings and with kids that are around. They will sooth. If they see somebody else in pain, even the youngest of toddlers will try to reach out and pat the person.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.
- Consisting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The house I grew up in had large plate-glass windows, which birds frequently crashed into headfirst. My father helped me assemble a bird hospital, consisting of a few shoe boxes, some old rags, and tiny dishes for water and food.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lost about 60 pounds. I don't really have a moment specifically that made me do it. I remember little things, like, when I was in Japan, I remember looking around at the portion sizes of a fast food restaurant and being like, 'Well, this has something to do with it.' Americans definitely eat too much.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
- Food Stamps
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's outrageous that many enlisted people qualify for food stamps because military salaries are so low.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.
- Basic Needs
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ability of communities to meet their most basic needs - food, water, energy, sanitation - is threatened by climate change.
- Food Supply
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- Nov 07, 2020
Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020