Quotes about eating
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“You will eat this and go to sleep, so your pronouns get their antecedents back.”

Patricia Briggs book Frost Burned

Source: Frost Burned

Sleep

“In Ramadan, you should eat less and think more.”

Tariq Ramadan (1962) Swiss muslim scholar

Thinking

“I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy…”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

Boy, Kiss, Reading, Dance

“You never forget a beautiful thing that you have made,' [Chef Bugnard] said. 'Even after you eat it, it stays with you - always.”

Julia Child My Life in France

Source: My Life in France

Beauty, Forgetting

“It was easier when all we wanted to do was eat them and take their stuff,” he grumbled.
And it had been easier when he hadn’t cared if he made any of them cry.”

Anne Bishop book Written in Red

Source: Written in Red

Cry

“Meat!" he said scornfully. "I'm a vegetarian."

You eat cheese enchiladas and aluminum cans," I reminded him.

Those are vegetables.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

“Stealing to eat ain’t criminal—stealing to be rich is.”

Andrew Vachss (1942) American writer and lawyer

Source: A Bomb Built in Hell

“Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.”

Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist

Animals

“If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.”

Thomas Merton (1915–1968) Priest and author

Thinking

“That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?”

Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

Boy

“The Simi is environmentally sound. Eat everything except for hooves”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

“It's ideal really. They will come up with a plan. No one will like it. Everyone will feel they have been treated unfairly, but will be happy that their neighbors feel the same. And that is the nature of compromise. Now let's go eat an awful lot.”

Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist

Happiness, Feeling, Nature

“It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.”

Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) British writer

Part 2, Chapter 3
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

People

“Marrying a woman for her beauty makes no more sense than eating a bird for its singing. But it's a common mistake nonetheless.”

Charles Frazier book Cold Mountain

Source: Cold Mountain

Beauty, Bird, Sense, Singing

“Zeus will destroy you!' she promised. 'Hades will have your soul!'
'' I yelled
I wasn't sure where the Latin came from. I think it meant 'Eat my pants!”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

Soul, Thinking

“Eggs," said Henry dreamily, looking at his plate. "I do love eggs. I could eat them all day.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Love

“Look, PETA! If God hadn't wanted us to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them so darn”

Stephen Colbert book I Am America (And So Can You!)

Source: I Am America

God, Animals

“Strygalldwir is my name. Conjure with it and I will eat your heart and liver."

"Conjure with it? I can't even pronounce it, and my cirrhosis would give you indigestion.”

Roger Zelazny book The Guns of Avalon

Source: The Guns of Avalon

Heart

“Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary…”

Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast

Source: A Moveable Feast

Drink, Nature, Wine

“We breathe, sleep, drink, eat, work and then die! The end of life is death. What do you long for? Love? A few kisses and you will be powerless. Money? What for? To gratify your desires. Glory? What coems after it all? Death! Death alone is certain.”

Guy De Maupassant Bel-Ami

Source: Bel-Ami

Love, Life, Death, Money

“Somewhere along the line I'd lost the will not to eat.”

Meg Rosoff book How I Live Now

Source: How I Live Now

“Man, you weigh a freaking ton," he told me. "What've you been eating, rocks?"
"Why, is your head missing some?" I croaked. His mouth almost quirked in a smile, and that's when I knew how upset he'd been”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Angel Experiment

Smile

“Henry," said Charlotte, who appeared to have recovered from her shock, "if you set yourself on fire deliberately, I will institute divorce proceedings. Now sit down and eat your supper. And say hello to our guest.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Variant: Henry," said Charlotte, who seemed to have recovered from her shock, "if you set yourself on fire deliberately, I will institute divorce proceedings. Now sit down and eat your supper. And say hello to our guest.
Source: Clockwork Angel

Appearance

“Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.”

Charles Bukowski book Factotum

Variant: Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.
Source: Factotum

Life, World, Sleep, Clothes