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Roberto Acuna, farm worker ~
• “If I had enough money, I would take busloads of people out to the fields and into the labor camps. Then they'd know how that fine salad got on their table..”
Pearl Bailey ~
• “Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.”
Edward Bellamy ~
• “If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.”
Alton Brown ~
• “The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science.”
Samuel Butler ~
• “Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.”
G. K. Chesterton ~
• “Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
Winston Churchill ~
• “Eating words has never given me indigestion.”
Theodore Dreiser ~
• “Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.”
M. F. K. Fisher ~
• “People ask me: "Why do you write about food, and eating, and drinking? Why don't you write about the struggle for power and security, and about love, the way the others do?" . . . The easiest answer is to say that, like most other humans, I am hungry.”
• “Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.”
• “Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.”
Victor Hugo ~
• “Life is a flower of which love is the honey.”
Ivan Illich ~
• “Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth, work, healing, and dying.”
Omar Khayyam ~
• “Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, / A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou ...”
Lucretius ~
• “What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.”
Lewis Mumford ~
• “Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.”
Edith Sitwell ~
• “Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”
Socrates ~
• “Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live..”
Solon ~
• “No fool can be silent at a feast.”
Mother Teresa ~
• “If you can't feed a hundred people, feed just one.”
• “The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
Leo Tolstoy ~
• “A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.”
Orson Welles ~
• “My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.”
E. B. White ~
• “A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.”
Woodrow Wilson ~
• “Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.”
Thomas Wolfe ~
• “This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.”
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