Quotes with food-gathering

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  • Henry David Thoreau I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • George Orwell A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bill Bryson Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Climate change, demographics, water, food, energy, global health, women's empowerment - these issues are all intertwined. We cannot look at one strand in isolation. Instead, we must examine how these strands are woven together.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Emily Dickinson Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Luther Burbank Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul.
    Luther Burbank
    American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer (1849 - 1926)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Fran Lebowitz If you're going to America, bring your own food.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Barbara Mandrell In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 days a year, they get buckets of food - for the birds, for the squirrels, the chipmunks and the turtles in the summer.
    Barbara Mandrell
    American country music singer, musician, and actress (1948 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food and commonly better company.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Arthur Baer She used to diet on any kind of food she could lay her hands on.
    Arthur Baer
    American journalist and humorist (1886 - 1969)
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  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer and poet (1860 - 1935)
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  • Beji Caid Essebsi To fight extremism, we will need to pursue a two-pronged strategy: both 'hard,' through stricter control of our borders and a more robust and technologically advanced security response, and 'soft,' based on better intelligence-gathering, working to return our mosques to their spiritual function and barring entry to foreign preachers.
    Beji Caid Essebsi
    Tunisian politician (1926 - 2019)
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  • Bobby Flay 'The Food Network' was just starting in New York, and I was getting lots of attention from Mesa Grill. They had no money, so if you couldn't get there by subway, you couldn't be on. It wasn't like TV was something I really wanted to do - but I knew it would be great publicity for my restaurants.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Charles Horton Cooley A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun. Her high selfsufficiency is her charme.
    Life and the student (1927)
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Margaret Mead A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Fred A. Allen A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Fred A. Allen A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Alfred Nobel A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
    Alfred Nobel
    Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist (1833 - 1896)
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  • Margaret Fuller A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
    Margaret Fuller
    American writer (1810 - 1850)
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