Quotes about food
A collection of quotes on the topic of cooking, hunger, tea, coffee.
Best quotes about food

“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
No. 36
Apophthegms (1624)
Variant: Money is a great servant but a bad master.
“I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food”

“Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.”

“My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”
Orsino, Act I, scene i.
Variant: Music, moody food
Of us that trade in love.
Source: Twelfth Night (1601)

“If music be the food of love, play on.”
Source: supanet.com/find/famous-quotes-by/axel-munthe/a-man-can-stand-a-lot-as-fqb50991/
Quotes about food

Source: Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating

Quoted in Marconi and Tesla: Pioneers of Radio Communication (2008) by Tim O'Shei, ISBN 159845076X , p. 5

Lula da Silva (1975), Cited in: Emir Sader, Ken Silverstein (1991) Without Fear of Being Happy. p. 41
After being advised to stay in the United States when his brother was arrested in Brazil as a communist subversive.

In "Auroville — The City Of Dawn in South India" (27 February 2009)
Sayings

On her opposition to the construction of a skyscraper in Nairobi, Kenya, as quoted in the article Wangari Maathai:"You Strike The Woman ..." by Priscilla Sears in the quarterly In Context #28 (Spring 1991)

First Mughal emperor Babur wrote in his autobiography Tuzk-e-Babri

"Ariana Grande: "I love animals more than I love most people, not kidding"" https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/ariana-grande-i-love-animals-4754625, interview with the Mirror (5 December 2014)

Godse referring to Gandhi's way of empathising with destitutes not by helping them but by imitating their unfortunate circumstances
Excerpts from the play Mee Nathuram Godse boltoy

Source: Review of Hunger and Love by Lionel Britton, in The Adelphi (April 1931)

Source: Discovering Buddhism, 2004 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=226w04QMPzQ

Source: Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings
“There are four basic human needs: food, sleep, sex and revenge.”
Existencilism (2002)

“The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.”

Book 5, Chapter 33, Section 4. Translated by Philip Schaff et al. (full text at Wikisource).
Against Heresies

Robin Williams: Live on Broadway (2002)

Quoted by Rollo H. Myers (1968). Erik Satie, p.135. New York: Dover.
See also Socrate for the context of this quote.
General quotes

Addresses and Essays on Vegetarianism (1912); quoted in Awe for the Tiger, Love for the Lamb by Rod Preece (Routledge, 2002), p. 344 https://books.google.it/books?id=Mf6TAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA344.

“Sell the kids for food
weather changes moods
spring is here again
reproductive glands”
Song lyrics, Nevermind (1991)

Stopped in Our Tracks, Book Two: Excerpts from U.G.'s Dialogues http://www.well.com/user/jct/chandra.htm (2005) by K. Chandrasekhar

Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.46, p. 108
Religous Wisdom

Bien est verté que j'ay amé
Et ameroie voulentiers;
Mais triste cuer, ventre affamé
Qui n'est rassasié au tiers
M'oste des amoureux sentiers.
Au fort, quelqu'ung s'en recompence,
Qui est ramply sur les chantiers!
Car la dance vient de la pance.
Source: Le Grand Testament (The Great Testament) (1461), Line 193.

About the defeat of Jaipal. Tarikh Yamini (Kitabu-l Yamini) by Al Utbi, in Elliot and Dowson, Vol. II : Elliot and Dowson, History of India as told by its own Historians, 8 Volumes, Allahabad Reprint, 1964. p. 27 Also quoted (in part) in Jain, Meenakshi (2011). The India they saw: Foreign accounts.
Quotes from Tarikh Yamini (Kitabu-l Yamini) by Al Utbi

Source: 1960s, Strength to Love (1963), Ch. 2 : Transformed nonconformist

"Portugal's Eurovision triumph", Euronews (14 May 2017) http://www.euronews.com/2017/05/14/portugal-has-won-the-2017-eurovision-song-contest

“Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.”
Non-Fiction, Here Comes Everybody: An Introduction to James Joyce for the Ordinary Reader (1965)
Variant: Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.

No known source; also attributed to Susan Sarandon.[citation needed]
Disputed
Source: The Prophecy Answer Book

The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.”

“This wasn't food - it was what food became if it had been good and gone to food heaven.”
Source: The Wee Free Men

As quoted in Good Advice (1982) by William Safire and Leonard Safir. Original appearance in Holiday magazine, March 1956, pp. 40-51.


Shaykh ‘Abbās Qummi, Safīnatul Bihār, Article of Taste
Religious-based Quotes

Homilies on the Gospel of Saint Matthew http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf110/Page_303.html, Homily L

1840s, Past and Present (1843)

Source: The Buried Temple (1902), Ch. III: "The Kingdom of Matter", § 5

p, 125
How Plants are Trained to Work for Man (1921) Vol. 5 Gardening

Dick Gregory's Political Primer (Harper & Row, 1972), p. 262.

Letter to Deborah Webster (25 October 1958)

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.

Rosa Park speech to social activists assembled in Washington, D.C. ( 1995) http://www.sweetspeeches.com/s/2316-rosa-parks-speech-at-the-million-man-march)

That's how you can tell a house Negro.
Malcolm X Speaks (1965)

3 April 1944
The Diary of a Young Girl (1942 - 1944)

“I love daal chawal. I am not a restaurant person. I enjoy home food a lot.”
[mid-day.com, Rani's Food Choice, http://www.mid-day.com/smd/eat/2003/january/42725.htm, 4 November, 2006]
Famous Quotes

Cooking that helps to de-stress me http://www.timesofindia.com/entertainment/hindi/music/news/Balance-music-and-education-Shreya/articleshow/5291639.cms

Sir Paul McCartney and PETA VP Dan Mathews Reflect on Two Decades of Activism http://www.peta.org/features/paul-mccartney-interview/ (April 2005)

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Women Saints of East and West

“‘ The Don! The Don! The gentle Don! Our father; giver of our food! Hurrah!’”
And Quiet Flows the Don (1934)

Quoted in "They Shall Inherit the Earth" - Page 55 - by Otto Zoff, Anne Garrison - 1943

"We are Power" speech (1980)