- Me
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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
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
My heart felt empty, and I tried to fill the void with food. However, instead of feeling better, I became anxious and felt like I was lacking.
- Patience
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I said a few weeks ago that our people would eat cooking oil and olives if necessary, I didn't mean that there really would be only oil and olives. What I meant was that our people have the necessary patience to endure the current difficult situation. Palestinians would rather do without certain food items than their national rights.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mum didn't have shoes. She was the eldest of 10 kids, and some nights they went without food. That's why, from a young age, I wanted to work hard and change that cycle, to provide not only for my parents but my siblings, too.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I grew up in Italy in the 1950s, it was still very agricultural. Food was very important; produce was very important. Everyone made their own olive oil. It took me a long time after I moved here to understand that Americans are much further away from their food.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Food is a big part of my culture, so everyone knows how to cook. When I came to America and asked a babysitter to softboil an egg for my son and she didn't know how, I was shocked.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't pick a favorite animal; I love so many! But I guess if I have to choose, I pick bees! There's this brilliant documentary called 'Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us?' I think it's important for people to be educated about bees - they pollinate almost all the food we eat. They are amazing!
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm Latin, and my family is originally from Italy, so we're a loud group. There's always a lot of food, a lot of talking, a lot of fighting.
- Choice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is.
- Nutrition
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- Nov 07, 2020
Real nutrition comes from soybeans, almonds, rice, and other healthy vegetable sources, not from a cow's udder.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Alton Brown's show 'Good Eats,' about the chemistry of food. It's really thoughtful.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
- Cooking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I'd go to restaurants, the main chef came out and was cooking for me, and he's asking me how the food is. I get, like, VIP service, so it's weird.
- Horse
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think chicken and horse meat are ideal food because it's very easy to digest.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do believe food plays an important role in preparation for the Olympics or any competition.
- Chicken
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- Nov 07, 2020